Culture Care, Makoto Fujimura
Culture Care, Makoto Fujimura
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Culture Care
Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life

Author: Makoto Fujimura

Narrator: Makoto Fujimura

Unabridged: 4 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/10/2017


Synopsis

"Culture is not a territory to be won or lost but a resource we are called to steward with care. Culture is a garden to be cultivated." Many bemoan the decay of culture. But we all have a responsibility to care for culture, to nurture it in ways that help people thrive. In Culture Care artist Makoto Fujimura issues a call to cultural stewardship, in which we become generative and feed our culture's soul with beauty, creativity, and generosity. We serve others as cultural custodians of the future. This is a book for artists, but artists come in many forms. Anyone with a calling to create?from visual artists, musicians, writers, and actors to entrepreneurs, pastors, and business professionals?will resonate with its message. This book is for anyone with a desire or an artistic gift to reach across boundaries with understanding, reconciliation, and healing. It is a book for anyone with a passion for the arts, for supporters of the arts, and for "creative catalysts" who understand how much the culture we all share affects human thriving today and shapes the generations to come. Culture Care includes a study guide for individual reflection or group discussion.

About Makoto Fujimura

Makoto Fujimura is an artist whose recent exhibitions in New York and Asia have been featured in the New York Times, the Atlantic, and other leading publications. He is also an award-winning author and the founder of IAMCultureCare and the Fujimura Institute, and cofounder of Kintsugi Academy. He has served on the National Council on the Arts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cindy on August 08, 2020

As a person who speaks frequently about remembrance I was entranced my Makoto Fujimura's concept of generative care. I suppose this is Wendell Berry for Art. In some ways this book was full of hope and in other ways it felt almost naively impossible. The older I get the less likely I am to throw aro......more

Goodreads review by Bob on March 04, 2017

Summary: A call for a different kind of engagement with culture, one of care, of becoming generative, rather than engaging in war or battle, to foster beauty in our common life. To read this book was a moving experience for me, one about which I wrote ("Culture Care Instead of Culture War") while rea......more

Goodreads review by Abigail on July 19, 2023

Cannot recommend this enough. Rock-solid encouragement for artists, and a message of hope to anyone interested in creative catalyzing for the good of culture. Beautiful, inspiring, brilliant, true. Written with love, and backed by Makoto's own sacrificial living out of the kinds of values and action......more

Goodreads review by Annie on April 20, 2021

Stop me from underlining this entire book — if culture is a river, this book is a flood of inspiration for us to be its custodians, those who restore our river to health that life may flourish around it.......more