Partnership with Martin Scorsese Gives This Evangelical Artist Wider Exposure | Sojourners

Partnership with Martin Scorsese Gives This Evangelical Artist Wider Exposure

Makoto Fujimura’s "Silence and Beauty" is mineral pigments and gesso on canvas, two 7'x11' panels, 2016. Photo courtesy of Robert Puglisi

Today, Fujimura is the most successful serious artist of openly evangelical faith in the U.S., and probably in the world. His larger paintings sell for up to $400,000 and defy the secular art establishment’s unspoken commandment: Thou shalt not reward an artist who claims explicit Christian inspiration.

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