The nose campaign is going strong. Thanks to your generous contributions, we’ve raised just under 40% of our total goal in just three days. Incredible!
Nose Updates + New Home Interior
By a nose…
We launched our nose campaign today and hit the ground running. In fact we hit our first milestone of $1,000 in donations just six hours after announcing the campaign. And then – oh happy day! – we quickly surpassed it.
Taking it down to Chinatown
On June 15th we’re starting a new era in the life of the IAO, moving into a 1,200 square foot space on Chinatown’s historic Chung King Road – a pedestrian thoroughfare that plays host to galleries and shops.
Exhibition: ‘Voyage dans les sens’, Paris
Voyage dans les sens is an exhibition related to olfactory art, opening on May 14th at La Maison du Japon – La Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.
Little Trees: Mural Installation
A team of ten people spent 8 hours today installing a 40′ x 8′ public olfactory art piece made of Little Trees air fresheners, on the 6th Street Mural outside The Standard, Downtown LA.
2nd annual Art and Olfaction AWARDS
The Art and Olfaction Awards celebrates creativity, innovation and excellence in global independent and artisan perfumery.
Smelly Vials Perfume Club
The Smelly Vials Perfume Club is our invitation-only membership program for experienced participants in the IAO community.
Open Sessions
Come experiment with making perfume at The Institute for Art and Olfaction’s public open sessions. Spaces are highly limited and you must reserve your spot in advance. ABOUT Blending aromatic molecules together into a composed perfume is not only fun, but creative, challenging and – sometimes – kinda relaxing. We can’t promise you that you’ll make the next Chanel No. 5, but we can guarantee that you’ll come away with a healthy respect for the art, science and skill it takes to make a perfume. Open Sessions are the IAO’s longest running program, and are designed precisely for beginners who learn best by diving in, intermediate perfumers who want to explore new materials, or advanced perfumers who want to co-work with a diverse and creative community. Relaxed and self-directed, these informal sessions are a great chance to get your first experiences, or refine your blending techniques, using the IAO’s
Cat Jones Residency
Cat Jones Residency April, 2015 Australian interdisciplinary artist Cat Jones is IN-LAB at The Institute for Art and Olfaction, for the month of April 2015. After using scent in several recent artworks, Cat is researching olfaction and the creation and delivery of bespoke scents for use in immersive performance experiences. This exploration follows her previous investigations into plant signalling and following expansion into human perception. She is currently developing a new work, Somatic Drifts that explores identity transgression, trans-human and inter-species empathy using visual-tactile feedback and scent. Cat Jones’ residency included a public talk for members of the IAO community. This talk took the form of a community interaction, that factors into her research programme. BIOGRAPHY Cat Jones is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, writer and curator. Her work investigates concepts of human and inter-species empathy, sexual and gender politics through the subversion of social constructs, science and