{"product_id":"just-making-a-guide-for-compassionate-creatives-hardcover","title":"Just Making: A Guide for Compassionate Creatives - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMitali Perkins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom award-winning author Mitali Perkins comes an essential companion for writers, artists, and other creatives who long for a more just world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhy should we make art while injustice and suffering wreak havoc? How can we justify making beautiful things? Author Mitali Perkins isn't afraid of hard questions about justice and art. She knows that the creative life can seem selfish. As the daughter of immigrants, she studied toward a career of eradicating poverty and knows the internal voice that challenges: \"\"How dare you retreat to your studio to create?\"\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYet Perkins learned that writing fiction wasn't setting aside her passion for a better world but pursuing it. In \u003ci\u003eJust Making\u003c\/i\u003e, she offers a justice-driven perspective unique among books on creativity. \"\"My ancestors are village Bengali women who made beautiful things but didn't dare to dream of art as a career,\"\" she writes. Women across the globe have crafted beauty and order amid chaos, war, and deprivation, and Perkins turns our attention to what we learn from them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJust Making \u003c\/i\u003eintroduces us to strategies such as forgetfulness in flow, tenderness in trauma, and crossing borders. In conversation with creative guides like Nikki Grimes, Chad Somers, and Carol Aust, Perkins offers ten practices that help creatives keep making. Persevering through pushback from within and without, we can keep making art that heals human suffering, transmits truth, and confronts the oppressor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHere are dispatches for young and not-so-young creatives, crafted by a writer committed to shalom: the flourishing of all. We must keep making art infused with truth, beauty, and goodness, not to ignore a world in distress but for the sake of loving it. With vivid stories, practical ideas, and reflection and discussion questions, \u003ci\u003eJust Making\u003c\/i\u003e will inspire you to keep making beauty in a broken world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 178\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 8.8 x 6.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 06, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51966555849005,"sku":"9781506485539","price":23.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/vRgSJE26HB9781506485539.webp?v=1775534530","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/just-making-a-guide-for-compassionate-creatives-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}