Penn Office of Social Equity and Community Panel Discussion: Featuring Makoto and Haejin Fujimura
About
As an artist and a lawyer couple, Makoto and Haejin Fujimura live out the integration of beauty and justice. Haejin co-founded Embers International, a global NGO committed to “protect, restore and empower” those caught in the intergenerational trauma and abuse of human trafficking, and Mako serves as Embers’ Artist Advocate. Mako is a contemporary artist and author of several books including Art+Faith: A Theology of Making (Yale University Press, 2021). Mako and Haejin have created a space called “The Estuary” which incubates their collective efforts. They are currently co-writing a book on beauty and justice to be released from Brazos Press. Mako’s art will be exhibited at the Arthur Ross Gallery from March to April in connection with the lecture series.
The Fujimuras will introduce the idea of post-destruction as a response to injustices such as trauma, persecution, Ground Zero, or post-atomic Nagasaki. Makoto Fujimura will share how he has created beauty out of those spaces of destruction, and how that creation leads to justice.
Sponsored by the Office of Social Equity and Community
Where: Penn Museum Rainey Auditorium, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Type: In-Person Event
Audience: Open to the Penn Community
Registration: Required