Fujimura Institute

Spoke recently at Stockholm School of Economics as a keynote lecturer on “Art, Gift Economy and Generative Capitalism”. Honored to be on panel with Dr Amy Edmondson of Harvard.

Our scholar Dr Pete Candler has been delving into the history of WPA documenting his journey into the Deep South. Take a look at this moving short “Sister” he just released:

Sister When a card falls out of my copy of the WPA Guide to Mississippi, I hit the road in search of the book's former owner.

Do check out our Culture Care Creative podcast “Light Through the Cracks”:

‎Culture Care Podcast on Apple Podcasts ‎Arts · 2020

My Fellow Dea Jenkins moved my heart deeply as she thanked me for the Fujimura Fellows journey. Well, they are my “beloved community” as is my ever steady light Lydia. They have become my family to co-create into the New. Honored to be honored at Windriders gathering at Sundance. Grateful for Kintsugi master Nakamura to join us as well.

As I wind down my role at Fuller Seminary, I am invigorated by the “beloved community” that is the Fujimura Fellows. Fellows program will be now under Fujimura Institute and we are launching the Kintsugi Academy with them at the core. I will be inviting some Princeton students (both from the university and the seminary) to grow the program. I am grateful for Pres Mark Labberton at Fuller for allowing me the freedom to develop this program as they are the future of Culture Care. May our wings grow!

Duke Psalms project, traveling with Kintsugi master Kunio Nakamura, Bucknell Board meeting (where FI was approved by ethnic committee to be officially allowed to operate)...it was a busy Oct but I see now a vista of our “mending to make new” journey. Fujimura Fellows have helped me to record some key conversations to be turned into a podcast in a near future.

Fujimura Fellow Dea Jenkins, my summer intern Meredith (thanks to Bruce Herman) and Fuller graduate Mercy with Kintsugi master and founder of “Sixth Dimension Cafe” in Tokyo. Love introducing the younger generation of the venerable tradition. We go to hold a fragment of a bowl about 10,000 years old!

Exciting news: IAMCultureCare/Fujimura Institute has officially been approved as UN Sustainability Platform! We will be in dialogue with global leaders on carrying Culture Care goals to be implemented and will be proposing projects. This opens exciting new chapter in our movement.

We are grateful for Dr Patrizia Bonaventura (my father’s former student) to assist in this process. Her research on autism utilizes my father’s research in acoustics, and she initiated our application.

My time lecturing at Oxford for Williamson Choir with choral master James Jordan was deeply meaningful. I now plan to do this regularly. July in Oxford is so delightful.

It was a delight to meet the Pulitzer winning composer Caroline Shaw at a gala to raise funds for a gifted school for music (Kaufmann) in NYC. The youngest person ever to win the prestigious award in classical music and delightfully child like heart. My father would have loved her music.

My recent Commencement address at Judson University:

Makoto Fujimura | Kintsugi Generation When I saw the image of the spire falling at Notre Dame Cathedral, I was immediately thrust back to 9/11/2001. I felt helpless, trapped in the subway coming home, underneath the towers as the rumbling of what turned out to be the first tower falling on top of us were felt, and the train backtracke....