Emerging Artist Showcase
featuring Nadine Takvorian's Armaveni
March 15 - August 2, 2026
Artist Reception Sunday, March 15, 2026, 3-5pm
A Cartoon Art Museum Exhibition
San Francisco, CA: The Cartoon Art Museum presents the art of Nadine Takvorian in the latest installment of its ongoing Emerging Artist Showcase. This exhibit features a selection of the artist's favorite pages from her debut graphic novel Armaveni, published by Levine Querido.
Nadine Takvorian is a first-generation Armenian-American author and illustrator of children’s books and graphic novels. From within the Armenian diaspora, Nadine’s family is “Bolsahye”―from Istanbul, Turkey. She is passionate about exploring Armenian identity and history, and battling cultural erasure. She also nourishes a soft spot for fantasy and alternate worlds. Nadine lives in the Bay Area where she digs holes in her garden and dreams of diving into waves at sea. Armaveni is her debut. Connect with her at @nadinetakvorian!
The opening reception will take place at the Cartoon Art Museum on Sunday, March 15, 2026, from 3-5 pm.
About Armaveni
A bold, autobiographical graphic novel chronicling one girl’s quest to uncover her family’s history during the Armenian genocide.
Nadine loves stories and her mother loves to tell them—all but one. Nadine would give anything to learn about her family's history in Armenia and Turkey—where they came from and how they came to America—but it is just too painful for her parents. All Nadine knows is that they were caught up in the Armenian genocide.
Until one day the dam bursts. And through that flood of stories and memories, and a trip back to their people's homelands, Nadine discovers a key to unlocking her own heritage and the courage to speak up when injustice rears its head again.
About The Emerging Artist Showcase
The Cartoon Art Museum’s Emerging Artist Showcase is dedicated to the presentation of new and emerging voices in comics, from the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. This ongoing series of exhibitions is curated by the Cartoon Art Museum and supported in part by support from Grants For The Arts.
About the Cartoon Art Museum
The Cartoon Art Museum’s mission is to ignite imaginations and foster the next generation of visual storytellers by celebrating the history of cartoon art, its role in society, and its universal appeal. The museum’s vision is to be the premier destination to experience cartoon art in all its many forms from around the world, and a leader in providing insight into the process of creating it. The Cartoon Art Museum can be visited online at cartoonart.org and in person at 781 Beach St, San Francisco, CA 94109.