Acupuncturist/Healer/Writer

Mary Ann Willoughby works with acupuncture and movement therapy as an entry point into body-mind-spirt connection. She has worked with children and adults for 25 years teaching movement to actors, youth and senior citizens. Since 2003 she has incorporated various styles of acupuncture, yoga, breath, and mediation to her clinical practice.

Mary Ann is also a storyteller and writer and has created community based projects that support and recognize cultural identity, diversity, and inclusion. She studied acupuncture at TriState College of Acupuncture and was a clinical supervisor with Kiiko Matsumoto. She studied at the International Center of Photography (ICP) and was influenced by her teachers Sophie Calle and Nan Goldin. Mary Ann’s earliest video/art piece,Take My Hand Burn My House, was exhibited at ICP in a student group show.

Mary Ann recently collaborated with Emmy nominated co-producer Igor Myakotin, Welcome To Chechnya, and Pulitzer Prize winning composer, John Luther Adams, on her most recent project, True Wilderness, a video/art exploration into liminal spaces that are thresholds of time and memory. The transition between what is known and what is unknown physically, emotionally, or metaphorically.