BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ical@bgc.bard.edu//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.16.12// METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Bard Graduate Center X-WR-CALDESC: X-WR-RELCALID:f X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_1610@www.bgc.bard.edu DTSTAMP:20260609T025258Z DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation between two pioneering scholars who are changing the way we experience art through our most evocative sense\, smell. Andreas Keller and Jessica Murphy will share their experiments in o lfactory design: how smells can invite new interpretations\, provide senso rial context\, and enhance aesthetic appreciation for the museumgoer or ga llery visitor. Keller will focus on how he works with artists to include s cents in their creations\; the resulting work\, he argues\, prompts a slow er\, embodied way of interacting with art. Murphy will discuss her method of crafting museum tours that combine visual and olfactory elements\, alwa ys starting with a critical question: for example\, how might an eighteent h-century potpourri vessel have smelled? Theodora Brown (MA ’26) will mode rate the conversation.Jessica Murphy is a museum professional and fragranc e historian whose work connects art\, scent\, and popular culture. She hol ds a PhD in art history from the University of Delaware and has worked in research positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. As manager of visitor engagement at the Brooklyn Museum\, s he created a series of scented gallery tours of special exhibitions and pe rmanent collections from 2019 to 2025. She has lectured about fragrance th rough cultural venues including the Corning Museum of Glass\, the Timken M useum of Art (San Diego)\, and the Institute for Art and Olfaction (Los An geles). Her writing about fragrance has appeared in Atlas Obscura\, Olfact ive Material\, and Viscose Journal\, and she has been interviewed about pe rfume by media outlets including Vogue\, the New York Times\, Bloomberg Bu sinessweek\, InStyle\, Glamour\, and Harper’s Bazaar. She shares her insig hts on olfactory and visual topics at her Substack\, Show & Smell\, and is currently a resident scholar at the New York Public Library’s Center for Research in the Humanities\, where she is working on a book project relate d to fragrance. Andreas Keller\, author of The Philosophy of Olfactory Per ception\, is an academic with PhDs in neuroscience and philosophy who is i nterested in smells. He was the owner and operator of Olfactory Art Keller \, an art gallery in New York’s Chinatown that encouraged artists working in all mediums to experiment with scents as objects of aesthetic appreciat ion by providing a dedicated exhibition space for olfactory art.Object Lab sAt BGC\, we use an object-centered approach to advance the study of the d ecorative arts\, design history\, and material culture. Join our student e ducators before select spring 2026 public events to learn about some of th e objects in BGC’s Study Collection. Each week we will showcase three obje cts carefully selected from the collection\, which includes more than 5\,0 00 objects in a variety of media. Drop in anytime between 5 and 6pm\; the experience takes roughly 10 minutes.February 25\; March 4 and 25\; April 8 \, 15\, and 2238 West 86th Street\, 5–6 pmFounded in 2011\, the BGC Study Collection supports student research by providing opportunities for hands- on close examination of objects. Learn more about the BGC Study Collection here. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T170000 SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: The Olfactive Gallery END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR