Can Beauty Save the World?: an Evening Conversation with Makoto Fujimura and Dana Gioia

Our world is awash in words and images. Does it really matter if they are beautiful? Can we separate content from its context, meaning from presentation, and function from form without losing something of true value?

Visual artist Makoto Fujimura and poet Dana Gioia are uniquely equipped to consider these questions. Through their numerous books, paintings, and poems, they have considered the meaning of beauty as it relates to fallen people in a fallen world.

In partnership with Montgomery Bell Academy and St. Paul Christian Academy, The Trinity Forum is celebrating 10 years of our work in Nashville by bringing back two renowned speakers for a special anniversary Evening Conversation. Artist Makoto Fujimura and poet Dana Gioia will join us on Wednesday, April 5 at 5:30 p.m. to consider the proper place of beauty in our lives and in the world. Note our earlier start time for this event, as the evening will begin with appetizers and drinks at 5:30 p.m., followed by remarks and audience questions, and will conclude at 7:30 p.m.

Thank you to our event sponsors for their support of this event: 

Friends:
David and Janet Chestnut
Kevin and Jessica Douglas
Bill and Elizabeth Hawkins
Allan and Gretchen Horner
Andrew McDermott
Eric and Eleanor Osborne
Ed and Molly Powell
Chris and Eleanor Wells
Alberto and Rebecca Gonzales
David and Ashley Edwards
Gif and Anna Thornton

Foundations:
Charis Foundation
Creed and Culture Fund
Andrea Waitt Carlton Foundation
Andrea and Rick Carlton and the AWC Family Foundation

Corporate:
Sims|Funk PLC