Mary Walling Blackburn

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Mary Walling Blackburn
Born1972 [1]
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of New Hampshire
Alma mater University of New Hampshire
AwardsArt Matters Award 2011 [2]
Website welcomedoubleagent.com

Mary Walling Blackburn (born 1972, Orange, California) is an American artist, writer, and feminist who works and lives between New York, where she is an artist and director of the Anhoek School [3] and its sister radio station WMYN, [4] and Dallas where she teaches art at Southern Methodist University. [5] She has been described as "“a singer, a tutor, a choreographer, a documentary filmmaker, a tourist, a critic and a translator” with a strong but politically uncategorizable activist streak." [6] [7]

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Anhoek School

Blackburn created the Anhoek School [3] as an educational experiment, an alternative to the GRE system. It is an all-women's graduate school that bases its curriculum on cultural production. Tuition is based on a barter system where student labor is exchanged for classes. [8] Its name is a "purposeful malappropriation" of the name Ann Hutchinson, a midwife in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who was expelled from the colony on charges of heresy, witchcraft and political anarchy. [9]

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