Duke University wants to make you aware of an event that is happening Friday April 1st at Duke Divinity School in Durham, NC that may be of interest to you. World-renowned visual artist, writer, and speaker Makoto Fujimura will give a public lecture at Duke Divinity School on the intersection of Christian faith and art. His lecture will focus on his recently finished Four Holy Gospels project – an illuminated manuscript commissioned to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible.

This English Standard Version of the Bible will comprise the four Gospels as designed and illustrated by Fujimura. It is the first such manuscript to feature abstract contemporary art. Fujimura created 89 original illuminated initial letters – one for each chapter of the Gospels – and added embellishments and design elements on each page in an attempt to depict “the greater reality that the Bible speaks of … for the pure sake of integrating faith and art in our current pluralistic, multicultural world.”

This event is sponsored by Duke Initiatives in Theology and the Arts. Please email Joelle.Hathaway@gmail.com for more information.