Being an Artist in the Marketplace and Being a Person of Faith

I want to introduce you to Makoto Fujimura. Makoto Fujimura is an internationally acclaimed visual artist throughout the Modern Art World. He is also a person with a deep faith in God. How do the seemingly opposing two parts of him meet? His reconciliation with both is inspiring many of us artists who either have or still struggle with this dilemma of identity.

"Art is always transgressive. What I always say is, we need to transgress our love. We today, have a language to celebrate waywardness, but we do not have a language, a cultural language, to bring people back home. So everything i do...my paintings, with (IAM) International Arts Movement work...everything has something to do with that. I hope this project will be enduring, that it is not just a printed object but has a life of its own." -Makoto Fujimura

"The divisions in modern life are growing deeper and more contentious between opposing academic disciplines, political parties, denominations, cultures, and classes. The world rewards increasingly granular specialization, but the world’s philosophical and practical problems increasingly demand the knowledge and cooperation of experts from diverse backgrounds. Makoto Fujimura has seen this fragmentation and has endeavored, personally and through International Arts Movement, to motivate other creatives to work together to resist the alienating effects of a divisive society. Defying fractured, fragmented modern perspectives, the Fujimura Institute encourages artists and thinkers to collaborate, cooperate and inspire their audiences to piece together a whole view of the world." -taken from Makoto's website

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