International Arts Movement

What International Arts Movement does

International Arts Movement (d/b/a IAMCultureCare) is a registered 501c(3) non-profit organization founded by contemporary artist Makoto Fujimura and headquartered in New York City, operating two integrated arms: a global Culture Care movement community and the Fujimura Institute, an educational and cultural engagement platform that integrates art, faith, and beauty. Its substantive output combines philosophical frameworks (Culture Care, Theology of Making), art-based methodologies (Kintsugi-Peace Making, Nihonga mineral pigment painting), multimedia projects (QU4RTETS, Silence and Beauty, Golden Sea, Border Crossers, Babette's Feast), academic programs (Fujimura Fellows at Fuller and Bucknell), an Estuary gallery in the NYC metro, and a publishing catalog with Yale University Press, IVP, and forthcoming titles from Brazos Press and NavPress.

The organization operates a freemium distribution model: newsletters, video series, discussion guides, podcasts, and educational resources are provided free of charge, while monetization occurs through charitable donations, book royalties, art sales (including Makoto Fujimura studio works and Golden Sea monograph), supporting-partner grants (Kalos, Shim & Associates), and fee-bearing Academy Kintsugi workshop experiences delivered by 27 certified facilitators across seven countries. Customer segments span practicing artists, faith communities, academic institutions (Fuller, Duke, Yale, Penn, Bucknell, Baylor, Gordon College, Hong Kong University, Cambridge University), justice/advocacy organizations (Embers International in South Asia, Pope Francis outreach, UK Parliament engagement), and cultural catalysts bridging theology, journalism, and creative practice.

The technology base is rooted in traditional Japanese craft — Nihonga painting uses pulverized minerals, gold, platinum, and oyster-shell pigments on silk and paper, while Kintsugi-Peace Making adapts pottery-mending as a contemplative peace-making pedagogy. The entity runs on a 1-10 staff headcount, co-located with Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York, with regional presence at Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena), Princeton (founder's studio), and the Ahmanson Gallery in Irvine.

Name

International Arts Movement

Legal name

International Arts Movement

Website

https://iamculturecare.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Arts and Cultural Education Services

NAICS

Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813), Civic and Social Organizations (813410), Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (71)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Arts & Culture Service/Support Organizations (Networks, Advocacy, Capacity Building) (BPAGAHAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Arts Education & Community Arts Programs (BPAGAHAC)

Keywords

• Arts and culture nonprofit
• Cultural stewardship programs
• Faith-based arts movement
• Artist fellowship program
• Arts education publishing

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Donations and Charitable Support: As a registered 501c(3) non-profit organization, IAMCultureCare relies on donations and charitable gifts to fund operations and Culture Care programming.
2. Book Sales and Publishing: Sale of Makoto Fujimura's books including Art+Faith: A Theology of Making (Yale University Press, 11th printing), Silence and Beauty (IVP Press), Culture Care (IVP), and Art Is: A Journey into the Light (Yale, October 2025). Also sells the Golden Sea monograph.
3. Partnerships and Sponsorships: Supporting partners Kalos and Shim & Associates provide funding. Partnership with supporting organizations enables programming delivery.
4. Art Sales and Exhibitions: Artwork sales from Makoto Fujimura's studio, including pieces available at events like the Fuji Farm Feast benefiting Embers International.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

International Arts Movement operates IAMCultureCare, a non-profit movement that cultivates human flourishing through art, faith, and beauty. The organization delivers educational programming, community building resources, podcasts and video series, summits, gallery exhibitions, Kintsugi-Peace Making workshops, an artist fellowship program (Fujimura Fellows), and published books centered on a Culture Care framework for stewarding culture.

Product overview

International Arts Movement (IAMCultureCare) operates as a catalytic movement consisting of two pillars: the Culture Care movement (a global community focused on cultural stewardship) and the Fujimura Institute (educational and cultural engagement arm). The organization offers a portfolio of projects including QU4RTETS (art exhibition responding to T.S. Eliot), Silence and Beauty (multimedia project on Shusaku Endo), Kintsugi-Peace Making (restoration methodology), Golden Sea (mid-career retrospective), and various sub-brands like the Culture Care Podcast, Belonging Conversations video series, and Culture Care Summits. Products include Academy Kintsugi training programs, the Estuary gallery space, Border Crossers documentary series, and Babette's Feast theater partnership. Fujimura Institute spearheads initiatives through collaborative exhibits, lecture series, and the Fujimura Fellows Program, all unified by the core Culture Care philosophy of tending cultural soil through art, faith, and beauty.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Fujimura Institute: Educational and cultural engagement arm of IAMCultureCare that spearheads broad initiatives integrating art, faith, and beauty; commissions artistic and scholarly responses to Culture Care
• Kintsugi-Peace Making
• Estuary
• Academy Kintsugi
• Culture Care Summit
• Culture Care Podcast
• Belonging Conversations
• QU4RTETS
• Golden Sea

Products and services

• Culture Care Core movement and philosophy that reframes cultural conversations by tending cultural soil and caring for artists as pollinators of the good, true, and beautiful, emphasizing abundance over scarcity in creative work. Distributed as free resources, newsletter, video series, and discussion guides.
• Fujimura Institute Educational and cultural engagement arm of IAMCultureCare that integrates art, faith, and beauty through collaborative exhibits, lecture series, and fellowship programs connecting creatives from diverse fields.
• Culture Care Podcast Podcast series formatted as a Kintsugi-based workshop in audio form, featuring guests including artists, journalists, professors, students, theologians, and poets discussing brokenness and healing pathways. Distributed free via Apple Podcasts and other platforms.
• Belonging Conversations Monthly video conversations between Makoto Fujimura and Julia Hendrickson reflecting on different Culture Care topics, filmed from studios in New Jersey and California respectively and distributed via YouTube.
• Culture Care Summits Annual summits hosted as Payton Lectures at Fuller Theological Seminary featuring speakers on culture care in education, journalism, theology, and arts; archives available for ongoing engagement.
• Kintsugi-Peace Making Collaborative initiative between the Fujimura Institute and Academy Kintsugi that uses the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold as a method for restoring fractured relationships, communities, and cultures. Delivered as group workshops and presentations including to Pope Francis and UK Parliament; reached over 1,500 attendees across seven countries.
• Academy Kintsugi Program co-founded by Makoto and Haejin Fujimura offering group Kintsugi Experiences and training certified instructors, with over 27 facilitators certified and more than 1,500 participants across seven countries since launch.
• Fujimura Fellows Program Fellowship program with chapters at Fuller Theological Seminary and Bucknell University, providing mentorship for creative catalysts with a model for generative, generational stewardship.
• Art+Faith: A Theology of Making Book by Makoto Fujimura published by Yale University Press, now in its 11th printing and translated into four languages. Used widely as a textbook in university classes and church reading groups. Softcover release scheduled for fall 2025.
• Art Is: A Journey Into the Light Upcoming book by Makoto Fujimura published by Yale University Press in October 2025 with over 70 full-color images of Fujimura's artworks, photographs, and illustrations; further develops his studio practice and view of artists as upholders of complexity and beauty.
• Estuary Cultural confluence space created by Haejin Shim Fujimura that incubates multiple business and non-profit initiatives across diverse spheres, featuring a permanent exhibition of Makoto Fujimura's artworks and rotating Culture Care exhibits of more than 20 artists. Free and open to public by appointment.
• Beauty x Justice Speaking and advocacy initiative by Makoto and Haejin Shim Fujimura on the intersection of beauty and justice, anchored by their 2024-25 Equity in Action Visiting Scholars position at the University of Pennsylvania.
• QU4RTETS Touring exhibition and festival featuring artworks by Makoto Fujimura and Bruce Herman responding to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, with original musical score by Christopher Theofanidis and scholarly colloquium organized by Jeremy Begbie, toured to Duke, Yale, Baylor, Gordon College, Hong Kong University, Cambridge University.
• Border Crossers Series Documentary series collaboration with Windrider Productions highlighting key Christians (many artists) impacting culture with their lives and work, featuring stories including Andrew Nemr, Dianne Collard, and Makoto Fujimura.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 1500 attendees at Kintsugi-Peace Making experiences across 7 countries since 2021 launch
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

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Feature3 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and supporting.

• Academy KintsugicoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 September 2021Co-founded by Makoto and Haejin Shim Fujimura, Academy Kintsugi delivers Kintsugi-Peace Making experiences globally. IAMCultureCare partners to provide this initiative reaching survivors of trafficking, UK Parliament, victims of injustice, and Pope Francis across seven countries. Over 1500 attendees and 27 certified facilitators.
• Embers InternationalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGlobal NGO protecting, restoring, and empowering victims of injustice and intergenerational human trafficking. Currently serving 80 families in South Asian slums. IAMCultureCare connects Artist Advocacy group to serve these communities.
• Windrider InstitutemajorGTM or Marketing PartnerAnnual Summit collaboration at Sundance Film Festival since 2004. Windrider Productions creates award-winning documentary content for IAMCultureCare including Border Crossers series, Makoto trailer, and Culture Care productions.
• KalossupportingOthersSupporting partner whose support makes generational Culture Care work possible. Nature of support is charitable/funding.
• Shim & Associates, P.C.supportingOthersLaw firm committed to excellence and professionalism, reimagining law and justice. Supporting partner enabling Culture Care operations. Haejin Shim Fujimura serves as Managing Partner.
• Culture Care CreativemajorGTM or Marketing PartnerCreative platform hosting Culture Care Podcast and podcast hosting for the movement. Strategic partner for cultural programming and community engagement.
• Fuller Theological Seminary Brehm CentercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHost of Culture Care Summits 2016-2018 as Payton Lectures. Location of Fujimura Fellows program. Makoto Fujimura served as Vision Director 2012-2017. Joint programming for theology and arts integration.
• University of Pennsylvania Office of Social Equity & CommunitymajorStrategic or Co-development Partner2024-25 Equity in Action Visiting Scholars host for Makoto and Haejin Fujimura. Joint lecture series and Transfiguration exhibition at Annenberg Center for Performing Arts.
• Duke University (Initiatives for Theology and the Arts)majorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHost of QU4RTETS colloquium with Dr. Jeremy Begbie organizing scholarly and theological programming. Engaging Eliot event featuring Ciompi Quartet performance.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Market position

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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• YouTubeyoutube.com/@makotofujimura3020
• Facebookfacebook.com/InternationalArtsMovement
• Instagraminstagram.com/iamculturecare
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/international-arts-movement

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Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

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