Luminous. . . . An impassioned artistic manifesto.Publishers Weekly
An Englewood Review of Books Best Book of 2025
If you have never read one of Fujimuras works, this is a fine place to start. . . . Part memoir, part art history, part art philosophy, and part theology . . . the book reflects on what true art really is.Jeremy Bugh, Englewood Review of Books
Winner, 2025 Christianity Today Book Award, Culture, Poetry, and the Arts
In this beautifully heartfelt text, Fujimura shows us that Art is awareness, a journey of looking and listening that encompasses the worlds around and within us. The book is richly illustrated with examples of his work that derive from his faith and embody the generative acts of repairing the world and peacemaking.Christopher Rothko, author of Mark Rothko: From the Inside Out
Makoto Fujimura is well known as one of the major visual artists of his generation in North America and as a particularly sensitive and original interpreter of arts spiritual dimension. This new book offers insights into his creative process and is a work of real freshness and beauty.Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury
When reading Makoto Fujimuras Art Is, I hear song sparrows, bluebirds, and a goldfinch deliver an impossible peace with his paintings. Like William Blakes, his faith is a door to his imagination. Working to the rhythm of slow art practice, Makoto Fujimura is a master painter very much in the present.Susie Ibarra, Pulitzer Prizewinning composer, percussionist, sound artist
Through an intimate studio tour, Art Is invites creative souls into Makos painting processfusing the alchemy of light with his theology of making. This luminous, heartfelt reverie fosters an embodied connection with God, humanity and naturean inspiring read.Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, Pratt Institute
With his stunning visual art and his lyrical writing, Mako shows us that art is a journey toward beauty as a revelation of hope: for abundance emerging through scarcity; for love replacing transaction; for truth-telling subverting injustice; for light shining through darkness in both human history and human hearts. From its most fragile expressions to its powerful convergence of science, spirituality, and creativity, he plumbs beautys depths of meaning in this masterpiece for mind, body, and soul."Ian Morgan Cron, author of The Road Back to You