Your artistry involves you intimately with the world around and beyond you. So your artistry involves profound but simple philosophical matters. As a human person, you are artful and philosophical, at the core of your being. Doorway to Artistry offers a playful, everyday philosophical approach necessary for life, integration, healing, and thriving in artistry. It reflects on the real and how we are involved with it, especially in our creative effort. In short, the real hospitably welcomes us, and in our artistry we reciprocate in noble courtesy. Human persons were made for this communion with the real. Find in this book a hospitable welcome to belong at home beyond where you are.
Esther Lightcap Meek (BA, Cedarville College; MA, Western Kentucky University; PhD, Temple University) is Professor of Philosophy emeritus at Geneva College and Senior Scholar at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. She is a Makoto Fujimura Institute Scholar, a member of The Polanyi Society, and an Associate Fellow with the Kirby Laing Centre for Public Theology.
Esther is the author of
Longing to Know: The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ordinary People (2003),
Loving to Know: Introducing Covenant Epistemology (2011),
A Little Manual for Knowing (2014), and
Contact with Reality: Michael Polanyi's Realism and Why It Matters (2017). Her books and many publications express philosophical insights in every-day language for all of us. She also gives courses, workshops and talks for high schools, colleges and graduate institutions, as well as for businesses, churches, and other organizations.
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Makoto Fujimura is a leading contemporary artist whose work has been featured in galleries and museums around the world, including The Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, The Huntington Library in California, the Tikotin Museum in Israel, Belvedere Museum in Vienna, and C3M North Bund Art Museum in Shanghai, China. His process-driven, refractive "slow art" has been described by David Brooks of
New York Times as "a small rebellion against the quickening of time." Fujimura is the author of 4 books,
Refractions,
Culture Care,
Silence and Beauty, and
Art+Faith: A Theology of Making. Fujimura is the recipient of the 2023 Kuyper Prize for Excellence in Reformed Theology and Public Life as well as the American Academy of Religion's 2014 "Religion and the Arts" award. From 2003 to 2009, Fujimura served as a Presidential appointee to the National Council on the Arts. He has also received notable recognition as a speaker, with one address selected by NPR as among the 200 "Best Commencement Addresses Ever" and by
CNN as one of the top 16 "Greatest commencement speeches of all time" and is a recipient of four Doctor of Arts Honorary Degrees from Belhaven University, Biola University, Cairn University, and Roanoke College.
Martyn Smith is an American artist and printmaker based in Otley, West Yorkshire, UK. Martyn does commissioned work for people and their books, but he especially loves doing his own art, focusing on wild landscapes and areas of interest that people love, giving a contemporary feel to traditional landscapes. His childhood in Appalachia, his Christian faith, and his "Anglophilia" influence his artistry. He has a background as a photographer and videographer: this was Martyn's medium in his twenty years as the media manager for a charity in Otley.
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