About Anne

Anne Palmer, DMA, is a musician, speaker, consultant, and founder of the Center for Arts & Wellbeing. Her work explores the role of creativity, listening, and the arts in how we connect, grow, and experience wellbeing.

Anne’s work is deeply informed by lived experience. As a professional singer who later experienced profound hearing loss and became a bilateral cochlear implant recipient, she went through an unexpected process of relearning how to hear, listen, and experience music. The experience reshaped not only her relationship with sound, but also how she understands identity, attention, change, and what it means to begin again.

Anne believes creativity belongs to everyone. We don’t have to be artists, performers, or experts to experience what can happen when we make, listen, move, sing, imagine, or simply pay closer attention.

At the heart of her work is meeting ourselves where we are now, rather than measuring ourselves against who we once were or who we think we are supposed to be. From that place, creativity can become a resource for connection, growth, and wellbeing.

Through the Center for Arts & Wellbeing, Anne creates experiences and collaborations that put these ideas into practice. Working with individuals, organizations, and communities, she brings creative practice, research, and lived experience together in ways that invite connection, reflection, and growth.

Anne also collaborates with research and practice initiatives including the International Arts + Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins University, where her work focuses on translating emerging research into real-world applications across the arts, health, wellbeing, and the built environment.

Anne holds a Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA). Across her work, she is guided by curiosity, care, and a belief in what can happen when we listen more closely to ourselves and to one another.