Beauty + Justice: Why We Need Both with Makoto and Haejin Fujimura

In a world marked by fragmentation, injustice, and exhaustion, beauty is often dismissed as a luxury—something secondary to the urgent work of repair. But what if beauty is not peripheral, but essential to healing what is broken?

Trinity Forum Senior Fellow Makoto Fujimura and Haejin Shim Fujimura will be our guides on this question, discussing their new book, Beauty and Justice: Creating a Life of Abundance and Courage. Drawing on their work in the arts and global advocacy, they will consider how cultivating beauty can help us to sustain courage, foster resilience, and contribute to the pursuit of justice.

Join us online May 15 at 1:30 PM ET as we reflect on the role of beauty in healing an injustice-ridden world.

Makoto Fujimura, a Senior Fellow of the Trinity Forum, is a leading contemporary artist whose work has been featured in galleries and museums around the world. A celebrated speaker and advocate for the arts, he is the author of five books and the recipient of numerous awards and honorary doctorates. From 2003 to 2009, he served as a Presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts. His process-driven, refractive “slow art” has been described by David Brooks as “a small rebellion against the quickening of time.”

Haejin Shim Fujimura is a creative strategist, futurist, and justice advocate. She serves as legal strategist to a range of nonprofit organizations and mission-driven companies, and is the CEO and co-founder of Embers International, a global NGO working to protect, restore, and empower victims of injustice to break cycles of intergenerational exploitation and prevent human trafficking, and the creator of the Estuary, an innovative and imaginative ecosystem where law, art, advocacy, and business converge to generatively transform culture.

Special thanks to sponsor Nancy Ziegler and co-host Brazos Press for support of this event!