2015 Kyoto Prize Symposium
The University of San Diego hosted the Kyoto Prize Symposium featuring the 2014 Arts and Philosophy Kyoto Prize Laureate on March 19, 2015.
The Inamori Foundation's 30th Annual Kyoto Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Arts and Philosophy was presented to Fukumi Shimura
Learn more about Fukumi Shimura and her command of a colorful range of plant-dyed yarns as her visual vocabulary and see a gallery of her work.
Watch an interview with Ms. Fukumi Shimura, the 2014 Kyoto Prize laureate in Arts and Philosophy.
About Fukumi Shimura
Ms. Fukumi Shimura has developed her original style of art, commanding an extraordinarily colorful range of plant-dyed yarns as her visual vocabulary and unleashing her imagination to improvise an infinite resonance of colors over canvases of tsumugi kimono. Through a constant communication with nature and deep meditation, she has cultivated a "tender and flexible thought that advances to weave human existence into nature."
Declared a "national living treasure" by the Japanese government, Ms. Shimura has developed an original style of art that has been deeply influenced by the Mingei (Japanese Folk-art) movement. During her career, the gifted artist and environmentalist has crafted more than 1,000 kimonos using every shade of color imaginable.