--- title: Google Doodle Celebrates Nun and Artist Corita Kent description: It would have been her 96th birthday canonical: https://time.com/3597932/google-doodle-corita-kent/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-20T19:00:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:14:45.025Z og:title: Today's Google Doodle Celebrate Feminist, Nun And Artist Corita Kent og:description: It would have been her 96th birthday og:url: https://time.com/3597932/google-doodle-corita-kent/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltce0e02fdd9fa3420/69876a090b72e311dd6dc0fa/screen-shot-2014-11-20-at-12-40-46-pm.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-11-20 at 12.40.46 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Today's Google Doodle Celebrate Feminist, Nun And Artist Corita Kent twitter:description: It would have been her 96th birthday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltce0e02fdd9fa3420/69876a090b72e311dd6dc0fa/screen-shot-2014-11-20-at-12-40-46-pm.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Google Doodle Celebrates Corita Kent, Feminist Nun Turned Artist ## Video: How Google Makes its Doodles [Watch (HLS stream): How Google Makes its Doodles](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8) (3:23)  _Published 2018-07-07. Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as_ by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Nov 20, 2014 7:00 PM CUT  Google by [Laura Stampler](/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Nov 20, 2014 7:00 PM CUT Google celebrated what would have been the 96th birthday of artist Corita Kent on Thursday — also known as Sister Corita Kent. In 1936, Kent started her career as a Catholic nun. She began taking art classes, and received a masters in art history — chairing the art history department at Immaculate Heart College. In 1968, she left the order and decided to pursue a full-time career as an artist. Kent was known for her silk screens, and she often juxtaposed spiritual writing alongside symbols of consumerist culture. She was a [well-known](http://www.warhol.org/responsive/event.aspx?id=23764 "undefined") activist, fighting for civil rights, anti-war causes, and women’s rights. 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