Anne Laura Healy (born 1939) is an American artist who was a founding member of

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. She worked as a professor at the

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and has work in the permanent collection of several museums, including the

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Biography

Healy was born in

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in 1939. She earned her BA from

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, City University, NYC, in 1962. In addition to being a founder member of

, she was a panel moderator and curator of several exhibits. She was editor of the ''Heresies #5: The Great Goddess''. From 1981- 2003, she was professor at the

, 1989-1996 president and member of the San Francisco Arts Commission. In 1995, she served as a delegate to the United Nations 4th World Conference on Women in

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. In 1997, she curated an exhibition of 5 Chinese women artists at UC Berkeley, Worth Ryder art gallery. Some of her works are in the permanent collections of

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in NYC, Allen Art Museum in

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and the

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, Corpus Christi, and the

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Salve Regina University Salve Regina University is a private Roman Catholic university in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. It was founded in 1934 by the Sisters of Mercy and is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education. The university enrolls mo ...

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