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Mary Walling Blackburn
Born
California
NationalityUnited States
EducationUniversity of New Hampshire
Alma materUniversity of New Hampshire
AwardsArt Matters Award 2011[1]
Websitewelcomedoubleagent.com

Mary Walling Blackburn (born California) is an artist, writer, and feminist who works and lives between New York, where she is an artist and director of the Anhoek School and its sister radio station WMYN,[2] and Dallas where she teaches art at Southern Methodist University.[3] She is also 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."[4]

Anhoek School

Blackburn created the Anhoek School 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.[5] Its name is a "purposeful malappropriation" of the name Ann Hutchinson, a midwife in the Massachusetts Bay Colony expelled on charges of heresy, witchcraft and political anarchy.[6]

Publications

  • Sister Apple, Sister Pig, 2014.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Mary Walling Blackburn". Art Matters Foundation. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  2. ^ "BOMB Magazine — Portfolio by Mary Walling Blackburn". Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Mary Walling Blackburn". Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  4. ^ "'The Contemporaries,' 'Painting Now' and More". The New York Times. 28 June 2015. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  5. ^ "Anhoek School". www.anhoekschool.org. Retrieved 2016-03-04.
  6. ^ "The Anhoek School". Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  7. ^ http://www.e-flux.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/MWB_testFINAL2BKW.pdf?b8c429