Makoto Fujimura

Makoto Fujimura is a contemporary artist, author, and arts advocate known for bringing the Japanese Nihonga painting tradition into conversation with contemporary art. He founded IAMCultureCare and wrote Art Is and Culture Care.

Culture Care Offers an Alternative to the Zero-Sum Logic of Culture War

Artist Makoto Fujimura argues that culture should be tended rather than treated as territory in a fight for power—a practice he calls culture care. In a conversation with documentary filmmaker Laura Waters Hinson, the two consider how art and film can make room for complexity. Hinson describes the challenge of making a documentary about missionary Elisabeth Elliot that neither reduces her to a hero nor turns her into an indictment.

The Aspen InstituteSep 29, 202612 min read