BRATTLEBORO — Catholic Worker calendars featuring the artwork of Rita Corbin, a graphic artist and printmaker who became involved in the Catholic Worker movement while living in New York in the 1950s, will be for sale at Everyone's Books in Brattleboro during the holiday season.
After founder Dorothy Day asked Corbin to make illustrations for The Catholic Worker newspaper, they became friends, and Corbin became a lifelong contributor - one of three primary Catholic Worker artists, along with Fritz Eichenberg and Ade Bethune. In 1954, she married Martin Corbin, editor and literary critic. The Corbins worked on Liberation magazine with activist Dave Dellinger and then joined the Catholic Worker farm in Tivoli, N.Y. Rita began publishing the Catholic Worker calendar in the late 1960s, as well as note cards and Christmas cards.
Rita and her children moved to Brattleboro in 1981, and she lived in the Brattleboro area off and on until her death in a car crash in 2011. Her children, who still live in the area, continue to publish the calendar and cards using her artwork.