In a world preoccupied with political battles, culture wars, commercial competition, and status seeking, why should we care about beauty? What does it mean to pursue the good, true, and beautiful — and what difference would it make in real, everyday life? Poet Dana Gioia and visual artist Makoto Fujimura are uniquely equipped to consider
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Online Conversation | Art + Faith: A Theology of Making with Makoto Fujimura On January 29, 2021 in partnership with The Rabbit Room and the Windrider Institute we were delighted to host artist, author, and senior fellow Mako Fujimura for a conversation around his brand new book, Art + Faith: A Theology of Making. Mako believes that in the
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Online Conversation | Culture Care: Mending to Make New with Makoto Fujimura On Friday, August 7th 2020 we welcomed renowned artist and author Makoto Fujimura. Mako shares about the Japanese artistic tradition of Kintsugi which prioritizes beholding broken pieces of pottery before repairing them to create something new. He helped us consider how this season
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Culture Care The Trinity Forum, EDGE Mentoring, and Herron and Riverside High Schools hosted an Evening Conversation with artist Makoto Fujimura on “Culture Care." The event was held at Herron High School on Tuesday, September 19, 2017. During this inaugural Evening Conversation, Fujimura discussed the importance of creating and conserving beauty as an antidote to
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Trinity Forum Evening Conversation with Makoto Fujimura This is the full, unedited version of the Trinity Forum Evening Conversation with Makoto Fujimura where world-renowned painter and author, Makoto Fujimura discusses the critical importance of Culture Care in our fragmented, modern world at the National Press Club. WHAT WE'RE READING Sign-up for a free one month
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Evening Conversation with Makoto Fujimura In this Evening Conversation, Fujimura argues for the importance of creating and conserving beauty as an antidote to much of our cultural brokenness, and asserts the need for cultural generativity in our public life. He also asserts that beauty is vital to the "soul care" of each individual, and offers
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