Video/Artist/Film /Photographer/Writer

Mary Ann Willoughby is a video/artist, writer and photographer working with community based projects that support and recognize stories of cultural identity, diversity, and inclusion. 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 group show exploring how borders and fences separate people while nature continues to move freely between man made boundaries.

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. The certainty of a “before” and the precarious” after” the waiting places between one point of time and the next.