Maureen Furniss

Bio

Maureen Furniss, PhD, is an artist, animation theorist and historian, and was the program director of Experimental Animation at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). She has received the Creative Impact in Animation Education Award from Variety magazine (2016), an award for Outstanding Contribution to Animation Studies from Animafest Zagreb (2017), and the ASIFA Prize (2023). She was the founding editor of Animation Journal (1992–2017) and author of several books on animation that have become standard texts. She has also lectured worldwide and served on festival selection committees and juries.