| Mary Walling Blackburn | |
| Birth Place: | Orange, California, U.S. |
| Nationality: | American |
| Education: | University of New Hampshire |
| Alma Mater: | University of New Hampshire |
| Awards: | Art Matters Award 2011[1] |
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[2] and its sister radio station WMYN,[3] and Dallas where she teaches art at Southern Methodist University.[4] 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."[5] [6]
Blackburn created the Anhoek School[2] 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.[7] 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.[8]