Join us for the opening day of Art of Manga with a dynamic conversation between artist Yamazaki Mari and exhibition curator Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere. Together, they’ll explore the power of manga to connect history, imagination, and everyday life across cultures and generations.

Also, join us in our first Cosplay Day celebrating manga! Come dressed as your favorite character, enjoy themed activities, snap photos, and connect with fellow fans. Learn more. 

Watch the livestream here

About the speakers

Yamazaki Mari is not only an award-winning mangaka but also a portrait and landscape painter, writer, and illustrator. Yamazaki excels at transforming Western historical narratives, both real and imagined, and biographies into manga. By tracing pivotal as well as ordinary or imaginary individuals throughout history, Yamazaki uncovers life lessons about humanity that transcend time and place with humor and insights. She won the Tezuka Osamu Short Story Award in 2010 and, in 2024, with fellow manga artist Tori Miki, won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Grand Prize. 

Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, PhD, is founding director and research director of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures and professor of Japanese art and culture at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom. She wrote Vessels of Influence (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012) and translated Tsuji Nobuo’s History of Art in Japan (Tokyo University Press, 2018, Columbia University Press, 2020). She was lead curator of Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan (2007) and Citi Exhibition Manga マンガ (2019), both held at the British Museum, where she was a curator from 2008–2019. 

Ticket info

Free program. Theater doors open 30 minutes before the start of the program. Seating is limited, unassigned, and first come, first served. Admission to the theater program does not include admission to the special exhibition or other galleries in the museum.

Contact info

Public Programs
publicprograms@famsf.org
415.750.7694