Makoto Fujimura is an artist, arts advocate, writer, and speaker, and the founder of the International Arts Movement. He is the author of many books, most recently Art and Faith: A Theology of Making (Yale University Press, 2021). Fujimura graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bucknell University, then studied in a traditional Japanese painting doctorate program at Tokyo University of the Arts. Fujimura’s art has been featured in galleries and museums around the world.