Bio:
Briana Yarhouse is an animator, researcher, and Director of animation for Interlochen Academy of the Arts in Interlochen, Michigan, USA where she started an animation program for high school students in 2022 at the premier arts boarding school in the world. She is also the director of International Animation Day for ASIFA International coordinating showings around the globe and president of the Animation Workshop Group helping bring animation to children around the world.
Her essays and papers have been published in the ASIFA Magazine, The International Journal of Comic Art, Society for Animation Studies Journal, among others.
She has spoken on animation and sequential art at conferences around the world, most recently in 2025 at the WAVES 2025 Film Conference in Mumbai, India where she was part of several panels and a juror for animation. In 2023 she was a guest and peer reviewer at the Jilin Animation and Comic Convention and ASIFA-CHINA International Animation Academic Conference. She has juried at a number of festivals including ArtPrize 2023, the Woods Hole film festival, and 2018 at the Xiamen International Animation Festival.
Her animation has played in many festivals. Most notably she worked as an animator on “Beyond Freedom,” which was nominated in 2006 for best short of the year at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2013 her short film “The Box” was selected as part of the Best Animation from ASIFA at the Canlandiranlar Animators Festival in Istanbul, Turkey.
In 2020 she worked to coordinate animators all around the planet to create a collective animation called Spiritus Mundi: Animating the World. Her most recent work can be seen at yarhouse.com.