22 / AMAM.OBERLIN.EDU SEP 3, OCT 1, NOV 5 / 12–5 PM FLW / OPEN HOUSES TheWeltzheimer/Johnson House designed by Frank LloydWright is an example of Wright’s Usonian style. Completed in 1949, the home exemplifies mid-century modern living for a middleclass family. For tickets and other details, visit amam.oberlin.edu/flw. SEP 7 / 5:30–7:30 PM ALLEN AFTER HOURS / OPEN HOUSE All are welcome to an open house highlighting our newest exhibitions. We will have games, crafts, music, food, and fun! Oberlin College students who have recently worked on the What’s in Spell? exhibition, the Shared Art program, and our dedicated Gallery Guides will present mini tours of their favorite objects. SEP 12 / 3 PM TUESDAY TEA / WITCHCRAFT AND POWER IN EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN ART The exhibition What’s in a Spell? Love Magic, Healing, and Punishment in the Early Modern HispanicWorld explores spell-casting as an unorthodox practice that offered solutions to spiritual, economic and physical hardships for people in despair across Spanish and colonial Latin American territories. Building on this, Ana María Díaz Burgos, Eric and Jane Nord Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies, will explore the figure of the witch—a spell-caster par excellence—and the visual representations of her power in European prints. In the second part of her talk, she will contrast these European images to their rearticulation in the Americas. SEP 21, OCT 26, NOV 16, DEC 14 / 12:15 PM MINDFUL MEDITATION Libni López, local clinical therapist with Authentically You Therapy, will lead sessions of intentional mindfulness centered around a work of art from the Allen’s collection followed by a discussion facilitated by Ellis Lane, Curatorial Assistant in the Education Department. These hour-long Zoom sessions are free and open to anyone. Please register at bit.ly/allen_ meditation_23-24. OCT 5 / 5:30 PM ALLEN AFTER HOURS / OUR OBSERVABLE WORLD: A WINDOW INTO VISUAL ARTIST ANNA VON MERTENS’S PROCESS Visual artist Anna Von Mertens’s exhibition of hand-stitched quilts and detailed graphite drawings, currently on view in the Ellen Johnson Gallery, brings to the fore the discoveries of Oberlineducated astronomer Henrietta Leavitt. Von Mertens will speak about her research-based, labor-intensive practice and how she aligns these two ways of knowing through thinking and CALENDAR OF EVENTS making. At the intersection of art, history, and science, her meticulous, captivating work honors historic figures and events and how their legacies resonate in our present, daily lives. OCT 10 / 3 PM TUESDAY TEA / FROM TREES TO STARS Julia Christensen, Eva & John YoungHunter Professor of Integrated Media, will discuss her artworks The Tree of Life and Burnouts, both on view at the Allen this fall. Burnouts is an installation of obsolete electronic devices displaying animations of “obsolete” constellations in the night sky. The Tree of Life is Christensen’s ongoing project creating a global network of living terrestrial trees that communicate with a spacecraft orbiting Earth for a duration of 200 years. Christensen will discuss her interdisciplinary process regarding the works on view, which include photography, sound, animation, sculpture, and installation. Left: Julia Christensen (American, b. 1976), Antenna tree model (Mt. Wilson), 2019–ongoing. Digital color photograph. Image: courtesy of the artist. Above: Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828), No hubo remedio. (Nothing could be done about it), plate 24 from the first edition of Los Caprichos (Madrid, 1799), 1797–99. Richard Lee Ripin Art Purchase Fund, 2021.26.1. Top right: Japanese, Charger with Map of Japan, 1830–44. Porcelain with blue underglaze. Ronald J. DiCenzo Fund for Japanese and Chinese Art, 2023.6. Bottom right: Jean-Baptiste Joseph Le Roux (French, active second half 18th century), Chocolate Pot, ca. 1755. Silver, wood handle. R. T. Miller Jr. Fund, 1956.67.
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