Uploaded June 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Join us to celebrate the opening of The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England. Enjoy curator presentations and conversation.
About the speakers
Martin Chapman is curator in charge of European decorative arts and sculpture at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He has organized numerous exhibitions at the Legion of Honor, including Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles (2007 – 2008), Houghton Hall: Portrait of an English Country House (2014 – 2015), and East Meets West: Jewels of the Maharajas from The Al Thani Collection (2018 – 2019).
Thomas Wu is former assistant curator of European decorative arts and sculpture at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He holds a master’s in history of art from the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Elizabeth Cleland is curator of European sculpture and decorative art at The Met. She is responsible for post-medieval European textiles, curated Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance (2017 – 2022), and co-curated Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry (2014 – 2015) and The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England (2022 – 2023). She studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art, receiving her MA and PhD as a British Academy scholar.
Adam Eaker is associate curator of European paintings. He studied art history at Yale University and Columbia University, where he received his PhD in 2016. He is a specialist in Northern European and British painting of the 16th through the 18th century. As a guest curator at the Frick Collection, he co-curated Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture (2016). At The Met, he curated In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met as well as The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England.
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Join us to celebrate the opening of The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England. Enjoy curator presentations and conversation.
About the speakers
Martin Chapman is curator in charge of European decorative arts and sculpture at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He has organized numerous exhibitions at the Legion of Honor, including Marie-Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles (2007 – 2008), Houghton Hall: Portrait of an English Country House (2014 – 2015), and East Meets West: Jewels of the Maharajas from The Al Thani Collection (2018 – 2019).
Thomas Wu is former assistant curator of European decorative arts and sculpture at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. He holds a master’s in history of art from the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Elizabeth Cleland is curator of European sculpture and decorative art at The Met. She is responsible for post-medieval European textiles, curated Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance (2017 – 2022), and co-curated Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry (2014 – 2015) and The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England (2022 – 2023). She studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art, receiving her MA and PhD as a British Academy scholar.
Adam Eaker is associate curator of European paintings. He studied art history at Yale University and Columbia University, where he received his PhD in 2016. He is a specialist in Northern European and British painting of the 16th through the 18th century. As a guest curator at the Frick Collection, he co-curated Van Dyck: The Anatomy of Portraiture (2016). At The Met, he curated In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met as well as The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England.
Learn more about the exhibition: famsf.org/exhibitions/tudors
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![Manga as art symposium | Part 1
Watch Part 2 here: https://youtube.com/live/FY_mH3t7E70?feature=share
Join us for a special international symposium exploring manga as an art form, held in conjunction with the Art of Manga exhibition. This dynamic gathering brings together leading artists, editors, and scholars from Japan and beyond to delve into the cultural, artistic, and narrative power of manga. Through conversations and presentations, the symposium will highlight manga’s evolution as a global visual language and its recognition as a serious art form.
[1:43:00] Imaizumi Ippyo image owned by the Keio University Fukuzawa Memorial Center for Modern Japanese Studies
About the exhibition: https://www.famsf.org/exhibitions/art-of-manga
Symposium Schedule
Part 1: 11 am–1 pm
Creating Manga: A Conversation with Artist Yamashita Kazumi
Introductions by Ishihara Takeshi, Deputy Consul General of the Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco; Horiuchi Marue, senior advisor for Shueisha Inc; and Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, curator of Art of Manga and professor at Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, UEA
Yamashita Kazumi in conversation with her editor Komatsu Yuma and curator Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere on creating LAND and Wonder Boy
Masuzawa Yoshikazu, Shueisha editor, will discuss To Live in the Oldest Western Style House in Setagaya and the creation of the Theodora Ozaki-tei manga resource and display initiative
Manga in San Francisco in 1900s: A Presentation by Fred Schodt on The Four Immigrants Manga, Followed by a Response from Ito Yu
Fred Schodt, American translator, interpreter, and writer, Ito Yu, professor at Kyoto Seika University International Manga Research Center, and Art of Manga curator Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere
Part 2: 2–4 pm
Futures for the Art of Manga
Introduction by Art of Manga curator Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere
Oishi Takashi, director of Yokote Masuda Manga Museum and CEO of the Manga Archive Center
Ito Yu, professor at Kyoto Seika University International Manga Research Center
Manga as Art Panel Discussion: Curating and Conserving Manga for the Future, with speakers Cyntia Karnes, FAMSF conservator; Justin Hall, California College of the Arts professor; Ito Yu, Kyoto Seika University International Manga Research Center professor; Masuzawa Yoshikazu, Shueisha editor; and Oishi Takashi, Yokote Masuda Manga Museum director; moderated by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, Art of Manga exhibition curator
Participants, in order of appearance
Ishihara Takeshi, Deputy Consul General of the Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco
Horiuchi Marue, senior advisor for Shueisha, former editor of manga
Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, curator of Art of Manga and professor at Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, UEA
Yamashita Kazumi, manga artist, winner of the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize for LAND in 2021
Komatsu Yuma, Kodansha editor
Masuzawa Yoshikazu, Shueisha editor
Fred Schodt, researcher, scholar, translator, and author of multiple books including The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904–1924 (1999)
Ito Yu, professor at Kyoto Seika University International Manga Research Center
Oishi Takashi, director of the Yokote Masuda Manga Museum and CEO of the Manga Archive Organization
Cyntia Karnes, head of paper conservation, FAMSF
Justin Hall, professor of comics, California College of the Arts
Hokamura Gen, translator
Karahashi Takayuki, translator
Mori Chiyo, translator Manga as art symposium | Part 1](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XhHqnT-0Q-o/mqdefault.jpg)




