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.]
Makoto Fujimura is a leading contemporary artist whose work has been featured in galleries and museums around the world, including The Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, The Huntington Library in California, the Tikotin Museum in Israel, Belvedere Museum in Vienna, C3M North Bund Art Museum in Shanghai, and Pola Museum in Japan. His process-driven, refractive “slow art” has been described by David Brooks of the New York Times as “a small rebellion against the quickening of time.”
Fujimura was one of the only non-natively born artists admitted to the Tokyo University of the Arts’ Nihonga doctoral level program and was the youngest artist to have work acquired by the Tokyo Museum of Modern Art. A celebrated author of 4 books and an arts advocate (founder of International Arts Movement), Fujimura served as a presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts from 2003 to 2009, and he has received numerous other honors and awards over his career.
Fujimura was personally asked by the Mark Rothko estate to write the afterword for the second edition of Rothko’s posthumous book (the only published writing of Mark Rothko), and he was also the only living artist to comment on Rothko’s work for the PBS Masterworks series.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Arthur Ross Gallery, 220 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, United States
USD 0.00
