Mary Walling Blackburn (born 1972) is an American artist, writer, and feminist who is the director of the Anhoek School and its sister radio station WMYN. She teaches art at Southern Methodist University. She has been described as "âÂÂa singer, a tutor, a choreographer, a documentary filmmaker, a tourist, a critic and a translatorâ with a strong but politically uncategorizable activist streak."
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. 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.