Lectures
Planting Seedlings in Stone - Art in the City
Synopsis
Noted artist and critic Robert Kushner has written that, “The idea of forging a new kind of art, about hope, healing, redemption, refuge, while maintaining visual sophistication and intellectual integrity is a growing movement, one which finds Fujimura’s work at the vanguard.” Makoto Fujimura believes that art is both agrarian and urban and that it represents both the farm and the city. The artist’s task is integration. Every artist should be attempting to integrate, earthy, bodily humanity with communal urban constructs: the blending of Nature with City. In this lecture Mr. Fujimura will address these themes by focusing on art of Andy Goldsworthy - the brilliant British artist who collaborates with nature to make his creations. Additionally, the vision and work of the Washington, D.C. - based Mayors’ Institute of City Design and other similar efforts will be reviewed to consider the parallel relationship between cultural stewardship and environmental stewardship. Mr. Fujimura will suggest a future direction for how urban Christian communities may serve to create and mediate culture.
