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DAP Blogger Mahlet Seyoum blogs On Becoming a Producer of Creative Work. 

I remember reading a quote back when I was in college and contemplating a phD and career in academia (ha!) that what a phD gave you was the right to be a producer, not just a consumer, of knowledge. That thought stuck with me and has been something I've been beating myself over the head with for the past few weeks in regard to my art.

On the Scene: The South, Urbanism and Art Galleries

The South doesn't move like this, smell like this, look like this, or feel like this. Sometimes when in a big city too long, a Southerner, no matter how enthusiastic about cosmopolitanism and urbanism, just wants some shrimp and grits, some land and some freedom from the hustle and bustle of big city living.

The Fall 2011 Journal.

Art & Literature.

DAP Blogger Kevin Leckey updates us with striking photographs from his trip to California.

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