by Makoto Fujimura

Explore how the arts and faith live together and how you can bring healing to a hurting world through your own creation.

Is there a world where artists and conservatives come together to create hope and healing for a hurting generation? What would such a place look like, and how can two groups of such different cultures communicate? Makoto Fujimura, award-winning artist, brings artists and conservatives, believers and non-believers, together in Refractions, a series of essays, thoughts, and prayers about faith and the arts. Become inspired by life, and learn how to bring healing to the world through your own creation.

Available February 1, 2009. Read more or purchase your copy at www.navpress.com or call 1-800-366-7788.

Author Bio:

Makoto Fujimura was born in 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts. Educated biculturally between the United States and Japan, Fujimura graduated from Bucknell University in 1983 and received an M.F.A. from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music as a National Scholar in Nihonga (Japanese-style painting) in 1989. During his years in the program, he experienced “a transfer of allegiance from art to Christ.” His book River Grace (www.rivergrace.com) traces his journey of mastering Nihonga technique, using carefully stone-ground minerals including azurite, malachite, and cinnabar, along with his deep wrestling with art and faith issues.

In 1992 he became the youngest artist ever to have had a piece acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo. Fujimura was appointed to the National Council on the Arts, a six-year presidential appointment, in 2003. WORLD magazine honored him as its Daniel of the Year in 2005.

In 1990 Fujimura founded The International Arts Movement (www.iamny.org), an arts advocacy organization that wrestles with the deep questions of art, faith, and humanity. His writings on art and faith issues have appeared in Image Journal, Books and Culture, American Arts Quarterly, and WORLD magazine.

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