Generously sponsored by John Williams, the San Angelo Endowment for Ceramic Events, and Texas Commission on the Arts

Kintsugi, the Japanese art of golden joinery, is a five-hundred-year-old method of mending damaged ceramics with Urushi natural lacquer dusted with powdered gold, seen as enhancing beauty while celebrating imperfection and impermanence. Naoko Fukumaru, an artist from Vancouver, Canada, presents traditional and contemporary Kintsugi. By beautifully magnifying imperfections in objects, Fukumaru leads us to accept fragility and imperfection in ourselves and in life.