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	<description>Author of &#34;I Want It Now&#34;</description>
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		<title>Street Art Continued</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are more photos from the street art exhibition (www.moca.org), courtesy of my husband&#8217;s iPhone. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Street Art or Vandalism?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently my local paper ran a piece on the unexpectedly large increase in graffiti in San Jose, Ca. According to the article, graffiti and tagging are at its highest level since 1999, when the city started keeping track of such things. While the spike in graffiti seems to be a mystery to those quoted in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://donnabeegates.com/street-art-or-vandalism/</link>
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		<title>My Favorite Quote From the Summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My husband and I made our every two years or so trip to New Mexico and visited museums and galleries. I found this quote at The Indian Arts and Culture Museum (www.indianartsandculture.org).It made me think about how we define &#8220;art&#8221; and how, in this western culture at least, we tend to almost fetishize art by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What did you do this summer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess summer isn&#8217;t technically over, but I&#8217;ve started back on my teaching schedule at San Jose State, which is my unofficial &#8220;summer&#8217;s over&#8221; date. One memorable experience for me this summer was the Romare Bearden exhibition put on by the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD). I first learned about Bearden in 2004 when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://donnabeegates.com/what-did-you-do-this-summer/</link>
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		<title>Art Journaling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As one way to avoid using “retail therapy” for a quick pick-me-up, my book, I Want It Now, suggests pursuing what you love. To that end, I’m starting a blog on art. I love art. Beautiful art lifts me out of a funk, challenging art suggests new perspectives and widens my world, and learning about [...]]]></description>
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