From 2018–2020, Two Tigers Productions designed and executed a wide-range of community engagement initiatives on behalf of Corita Art Center, the nonprofit organization that preserves and promotes Corita Kent’s art, teaching, and passion for social justice.
Corita 100! Celebration
We were initially engaged by the Corita Art Center to produce a celebration for what would have been Corita's 100th birthday.
With an eye towards joyful community building, we produced a sold out event which welcomed 350+ guests. We managed organizational partnerships and also successfully fundraised for the event, securing a $50,000 grant.
Two Tigers led a team of volunteers, vendors, and staff to create a colorful and engaging evening of art making, music, and tacos! 🌮
CicLAvia
Recognizing the importance of helping Corita Art Center connect more directly with the surrounding community, we held pop-ups at two Hollywood editions of CicLAvia in 2018 and 2019 to raise awareness about Corita’s legacy.
Total event attendance was 75K and our booth welcomed thousands of Angelenos of all ages!
We taught paper flower making and distributed organizational swag – all while celebrating sustainable transportation and safer streets. We commissioned this short video (shout out to THIRTY-FOUR DEGREES) to document the event and outline Corita’s “recipe” for a celebration for use as part of our social media campaigns. 🎉
“amar la justicia” installation
Aiming to link Corita’s legacy of social justice with current events, Two Tigers forged a partnership between Corita Art Center and The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Fights Los Angeles (CHIRLA) for Dia de los Muertos at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in 2019, where 35K+ visitors attended the festivities.
We built an ofrenda honoring members of the extended CHIRLA family lost in the struggle for immigrant rights, while championing shared themes of love, hope, and justice.
LOVE
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HOPE
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JUSTICE
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LOVE 〰️ HOPE 〰️ JUSTICE 〰️
The 10 foot tall altar was constructed out of Corita and her students’ favorite everyday art object, the cardboard box, and featured an enlarged version of her 1966 serigraph love justice, as well hundreds of custom-made screen prints, designed by Noopur Agarwal and printed by Monti Creative.
We commissioned Camila Alvarado of AK Media to document this meaningful collaboration and community activation.
The Great Humans Series
Featuring Roxane Gay and Abbi Jacobson in conversation
With an introduction from Lisa Congdon
Presented in collaboration with KCRW and Second Home
In 2019, Two Tigers spearheaded a contemporary reboot of the influential lecture series originated by late artist and educator, Corita Kent. The event sold out in 24 hours and welcomed 300+ guests.
While serving as head of the Immaculate Heart College’s art department in Los Angeles from 1964–1968, Corita launched "The Great Men Series” featuring leading artists, activists, and scholars, including Charles Eames, John Cage, Daniel Berrigan, Alfred Hitchcock, and Buckminster Fuller who called the evening, "one of the most fundamentally inspiring experiences of my life." Years later, Corita admitted of the title, “we would never call it that now,” and so we appropriated titled the reboot The Great Humans Series.
Conceptualized as a means of expanding the Corita Art Center’s reach and visibility by engaging high profile creatives in compelling dialogue, we envisioned this as the first of a quarterly series of speaker engagements and ongoing media partnership with KCRW. Unfortunately, owing to outbreak of the pandemic just three months later, this was the first and only presentation The Great Humans Series. Check out the full conversation below.
KCRW Collaboration
led to 225K+ impressions, and included 2 weeks of radio ads (reaching 150K), Art Insider E-newsletter, ROS Display Banners, and ads in Event Calendar
300% growth
in followers across social media platforms & newsletter resulting from this event and collaboration
Women's March Art Making Party
For the Women’s March in January 2020, Two Tigers facilitated a collaboration with Metabolic Studio and Center for the Study of Political Graphics to co-present an evening of protest art making, education, and community building.
The event, which was free and open to the public, welcomed 85 community members for a pot luck dinner, followed by a presentation on the history of protest art by Carol Wells (Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics) and open studio hours for making art to bring to the forthcoming Women’s March LA.
For the occasion, Two Tigers once again partnered with Noopur Agarwal to design a custom joyful revolutionary screen, which could be layered with an image of Corita and a heart featured in many of her compositions.
“Joyful Revolutionary” is an updated take on when renowned artist and activist Ben Shahn dubbed Corita “a joyous revolutionary” in the late 1960s.Mobile screen printing setup was provided by the incomparable Monti Creative.
Participants expressed themselves via screen printing on signs and clothing, while others hand-drew protest signs and made seed “bombs.” All were given branded care packages including both Corita Art Center organizational swag and additional merchandise sourced from local, independent women/female-identifying owned vendors.
We loved seeing new audiences engage with Corita’s work as a tool to advocate for social issues.