EAVScholars Mako and Haejin Fujimura Event #4 Silence and Beauty

Mon Apr 07 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm UTC-04:00

To Be Announced | Philadelphia

The Office of Social Equity and Community at Penn
Publisher/HostThe Office of Social Equity and Community at Penn
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As an artist and a lawyer couple, Makoto and Haejin Fujimura live out the integration of beauty and justice.
About this Event

As an artist and a lawyer couple, Makoto and Haejin Fujimura live out the integration of beauty and justice. Haejin co-founded Embers International, a global NGO committed to “protect, restore and empower” those caught in the intergenerational trauma and abuse of human trafficking, and Mako serves as Embers’ Artist Advocate. Mako is a contemporary artist and author of several books including Art+Faith: A Theology of Making (Yale University Press, 2021). Mako and Haejin have created a space called “The Estuary” which incubates their collective efforts. They are currently cowriting a book on beauty and justice to be released from Brazos Press. [Mako’s art will be exhibited at the Arthur Ross Gallery from March to April in connection with the lecture series.


Silence and Beauty Monday, April 7th

Description: Makoto Fujimura will speak [in connection to/at his exhibit at the Arthur Ross Gallery] on his distinctive “Slow Art” and practice of Nihonga (Japanese painting). He will also discuss Shūsaku Endō’s seminal novel Silence as well as the sixteenth-century tea master Sen no Rikyū’s art of tea in connection with social justice and equity.

Length: 60-75 min including Q&A

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