The Summer of Women begins May 14 at Miami's Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU, and runs through September with three original exhibitions featuring women artists.

In the Beginning was the Word: Works by Corita Kent tops the marquee with a fresh look at the activist artwork of the rebel-nun/Pop Art pioneer. Also opening May 14 is the exhibition Suddenly Last Summer featuring three South Florida-based (Donna Haynes, Leah Brown and Michelle Weinberg) each given a room within the museum's Grand Galleries to create site-specific installations based on the hit song by The Motels. The opening reception for both exhibitions is free and open to the public on Saturday, May 14 (4-7 p.m.). The museum is located on the campus of Florida International University (map and directions).

On June 18, the  new exhibition Resonance/Dissonance debuts, featuring video art by women artists from the de la Cruz Collection. The opening reception is free and open to the public on Saturday, June 18 (4-7 p.m.).

Also on June 18, the museum inaugurates the new Art and Health series of community events with the luncheon presentation of Her Body of Art, sponsored by West Kendall Baptist Hospital. Exploring the nexus between art and health, the new series of artful conversations pairs medical experts and practitioners with art historians and visual artists ($35 per person includes lunch).

In the Beginning was the Word: Works by Corita Kent, ushers in The Summer of Women with an opening reception on Saturday, May 14 (4–7 p.m.), on view through September 18. This new exhibition (originating at the Frost Art Museum FIU) presents a collection of fifty works by Corita Kent (also known as Sister Mary Corita) bursting with color and meaningful text, selected to showcase the artist’s Pop Art legacy and memorable calls-to-action for social justice. 

Her work had been considered as overlooked by many, until as recently as 2015 when the Andy Warhol Museum presented the first full-scale survey of Corita's work covering over 30 years of her artistic career.

An upcoming group exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London will feature Corita's work, and is titled YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION? How have the finished and unfinished revolutions of the late 1960s changed the way we live today and think about the future?

Corita's work can be found in several art museums and private collections including the Whitney, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

In 1985, Corita Kent's famous "Love" postage stamp was commissioned for the U.S. Postal Service and became it's largest-selling stamp (with more than 700,000 stamps purchased, prompting many to unofficially proclaim Corita as the world's best-selling artist of all time). Read the complete press release about this Corita Kent exhibition at the Frost Art Museum FIU here, and to learn more about the artist visit Corita.org.