Anne Willieme
ALW Atelier

Anne Willieme is a multi disciplinary artist working with paint, installation, performance, augmented reality and choreography. She has held exhibitions in galleries and public spaces in the U.S. and in Europe in main cities such as Washington D.C., New York City, Brussels, Paris, Frankfurt, and Rome.

As education designer with a passion for melding polarized fields, Willieme has also investigated how sensory perception can link divergent domains--such as art, medicine, and science--and be brought together to create dynamic synergies. In this context, Willieme created ArtMed inSight, which uses art to train physicians and medical personnel in perception at leading medical institutions in the U.S. in order to support their visual diagnostic and communication skills.

She has developed a series of proprietary perceptual art-methods, which aim to foster a more creative and less conditioned way of seeing, leading to transformation and self-growth. Her seminars have been the subject of research by main academic institutions such as Columbia University and NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

Results showed increased reflection; observation; self-awareness; and creative thinking as well as stress reduction for the participants who took her courses.

Willieme’s interest in the intersection of art, healing and medicine has grown to include ecology, which has now become a central focus of ALW Atelier.

With an ongoing interest in dreams and dream research too, she is a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. She has led workshops on dreams and creativity and was featured in award-winning film director Joe Berlinger’s shorts called The Power of Dreams.

Additionally, Anne Willieme was a lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for close to ten years and also writes on art and art and medicine. Her articles have appeared Spirituality and Health and Alive Magazine. She speaks nationally and internationally on the topic of art, art/medicine, and art and perception.

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