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Albion Through My Eyes

Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo visited Albion as part of the Albion College  Philip C. Curtis Artist-in-Residence program.
During the fall of 2019, Nicolás visited with Albion residents, and shared information about his pilgrimage in Albion at the Bobbit Visual Arts Center. He also wrote a column for The Recorder Newspaper called “Albion Through My Eyes.”  See that series below.

Albion was given a chance to see itself from the eyes of a complete stranger during the fall of 2019.   The articles below were about the experience, from the eyes of the visitor, Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful in his series of articles in The Recorder.  Below these, see information about the art display, Caminata, that was sponsored by Albion College.

 

 

The endangered Midwest hug — not yet, please!

March 27, 2020

Albion Through My Eyes / Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful 3-27-20 The Endangered Mid-West Hug – Not Yet Please! The Earth is finally getting a break, but

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E-ntroductions

February 10, 2020

Upon returning from Albion, I resume walking in the Bronx with the intention of finding a place in its day-to-day, again, within my already familiar

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singing of the street names albion michigan

Caminata – a three-month pilgrimage

January 4, 2020

Below –  a gallery of Albion’s material culture that gathered, catalogued and displayed at the Bobbitt Visual Arts Center at Albion College. Caminata, a three-month

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It all happens so fast

December 19, 2019

Three months seem just like last week, and yesterday appears to be like an hour ago. But that is all in Chronos time, where one

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Mexico in the Midwest

December 12, 2019

Albion Through My Eyes / Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful  12-12-19 Mexico in the Midwest The first image that catches my sight upon arriving in Albion

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Building steps to the sky and staging supernovas in the kitchen  

December 5, 2019

Trips can be unpredictable, but also a good time to reflect on the stages of life Albion Through My Eyes / Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful

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Healing in the city of kindness

November 28, 2019

Albion Through My Eyes / Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful 11-28-19 Healing in the city of kindness Walking down S. Hannah at 4:30 in the afternoon

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Salem Church of God in Christ

Moving with the Spirit

November 21, 2019

Albion Through My Eyes / Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful 11-21-19 Moving with the Spirit   Why are there so many churches in Albion? I leave my

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Singing the names of the streets

November 14, 2019

Albion Through My Eyes / Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful 11-14-19 Singing the names of the streets “Before I met you [Nicolás] I did not know Albion

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In their Jackets 

November 7, 2019

Maurice Barry, Dr. Harry Bonner, and Larry Williams Albion Through My Eyes / Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful 11-7-19 In their Jackets    Not wanting to be

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The world is my studio and theirs as well

October 31, 2019

Albion Through My Eyes / Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful 10-31-19     For years, I have been working at the intersection of life and art, a

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It must be love

October 24, 2019

Albion Through My Eyes – Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful October 24, 2019 If, as Emily Dickinson’s poem says, ‘“Hope” is the thing with feathers,’ what

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Inside one of Maggie LaNoue’s cards

October 17, 2019

Albion Through My Eyes – Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful October 17, 2019 In the age of the pervasive cell phone, postcards and the like appear

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On Feet and Wheels

October 10, 2019

Albion Through My Eyes by Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful On Feet and Wheels Much like a painter uses a paintbrush or a photographer deploys a

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To Hug or Not to Hug

October 3, 2019

To Hug or Not to Hug  The acceptance letter to be a visiting artist at Albion College and the documents that ensued after my positive

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Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo

Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo

Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful  Espejo was the visiting artist at the Albion College during the fall of 2019. He sought to meet people in Albion. He wrote a series of articles about his experience in Albion for The Recorder newspaper.

Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raful Espejo is a performance artist and teacher who has worked across the USA and internationally at venues such as Madrid Abierto/ARCO, The IX Havana Biennial, PERFORMA 05 and 07, IDENSITAT, Prague Quadrennial, and NYU Cantor Film Center. He has received grants and residencies from Art Matters, Lambent Foundation, MacDowell Colony, National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, Printed Matter Inc., PS1/MoMA, and Yaddo, and holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and an MA from Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. Nicolás teaches art at the visionary City & Country School in Manhattan and presents architectural workshops that help SEQ ART KIDS students create their own utopian architecture.

Click here to see photos of the Caminata exhibition.

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