Atelier Éditions is a limited-edition publishing house and creative atelier based in Los Angeles. Authoring archival monographs, contemporary art books, and exploratory printed matter, Atelier Éditions regularly curates exhibitions, develops installations, envisages cultural programming, initiates seminars, and enacts memorable collaborations. Atelier Éditions was established in 2014 by Pascale Georgiev, Capucine Labarthe, and Kingston Trinder.  

INTERNATIONAL SIGNAL CODE ALPHABET / SISTER CORITA KENT: Radical American artist, educator and once-devout Catholic nun, Sister Mary Corita Kent’s provocative serigraphy has entranced audiences for over four decades. As a contemporary of luminaries Buckminster Fuller, John Cage, Saul Bass, Andy Warhol, and Charles and Ray Eames, Kent’s avant-garde oeuvre is renowned for, and characterized by, her innovative entwining of advertising, photojournalism, and commercial signage with Christian iconography, scripture, literature, and verse. After departing Los Angeles’ Immaculate Heart College, Kent’s Signal Code Alphabet, originally completed in 1968, were the inaugural serigraphs created within her newfound secular life. Adhering nevertheless to the leitmotifs and processes of her prior works, Kent’s Signal Code Alphabet encompasses a series of 26 kaleidoscopic serigraphs integrating scripture, typography, image, icon, and the maritime flags of the International Code of Signals. 

As 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of both the series’ completion, and the centennial of Kent’s birth, an extraordinary opportunity exists to both exhibit her visionary alphabet within an inaugural Los Angeles exhibition, and to publish the entirety of her Signal Code Alphabet for the very first time as an accompanying fine art monograph. Creative Migration will collaborate with Californian publisher Atelier Éditions to realize this ambitious project. We will also work with Kent collectors Devane Clarke and Jeffrey Deitch, curator Stephen Gaither, Kent scholar Aaron Rose, and Dr. Ray Smith, Director of the Corita Art Center. Our project will culminate in an engaging exhibition of the International Signal Code Alphabet in Los Angeles, accompanied by a satellite talk at San Francisco's Minnesota Street Project.