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In the seventh episode of the third season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with Makoto Fujimura, independent artist and author. Fujimura begins by sharing the commitments and qualities that define nihonga or slow art. He offers some insights concerning the origins of such an artistic movement, what drew him to it, and what he thinks it offers to members of contemporary generations who encounter it. Fujimura then talks about his own calling as an artist, the way his liberal arts education at Bucknell University shaped it, the way advanced study at Tokyo University of the Arts gave it expression, and the way the practice of deep listening allowed him to make his own respectful contribution to nihonga. While practices such as painting and writing may appear disparate to most people, Fujimura then explains the deep and essentially inextricable relationship they share for him. His most recent book, Art Is, part memoir and part artistic philosophy, is a testament to that relationship. Fujimura closes by discussing the contribution the Church and the arts can make to one another and how the works he prepares and offers to the world serve as a means to doing so.