Teaching and Mentoring

Knowledge Sharing

Roles at a number of prestigious institutions have enabled Rahmani to share her wealth of knowledge and insight—lecturing, mentoring, and teaching. Her multidisciplinary approach and collaborative nature have fascinated her students and stimulated lively discourse on many contemporary art topics. Her deeply imaginative and original ways of seeing the world and solving its problems have helped to stimulate intense debates and contributed to dissertation topics.

Intern Mentoring, 2020

Rahmani has been mentoring graduate students to support their growth and experience in the world of practicing artists. In 2020, she enabled students to gain hands-on experience producing her Blue Trees Black Skies project and the Hunt for The Lost project, during her residency with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council on Governors Island, New York.

Her interns have gained exposure to her creative processes from initial idea generation and brainstorming to the logistics and hands-on creation of ecological art while generating online and social media support. This work fosters the next generation of artists by sharing her transdisciplinary approach to using art as an implement and force for saving the environment.

Sustainability Lecturer, 2017

Rahmani is considered a pioneering leader in ecoart and ecoart theory. Her broad knowledge of environmental sciences and practical experience in ecological restoration work makes her an important resource in circles and communities seeking creative solutions to the perils of the Anthropocene era.

Art Lecturer, 2014

Rahmani lectures internationally on how her practice addresses ecocide, environmental justice, and distils radical new theory about the impact of art on policy. She regards these events as precious opportunities to catalyse productive discourse around the most serious and pressing challenges of our times and identify solutions.

Teacher of Figurative Painting, 1982 to 1985

A grounding in anatomical studies, dance, academic formalism, and physiology informed Rahmani’s practice in the early years of her career That knowledge continues to inflect how she thinks about human interaction in space. Her teaching in this area combines rigorous observations of the human body and a deep understanding of the context in which we regard our place in the world.

Art Teacher, 1979 to 1986

At this point, Rahmani started to develop a more complex relationship between performance art, representation and the implications of the “public” in public art and visual representation. The experiences she shared in her pedagogy have also been the foundation for her understanding of the role of art in establishing standards for the global “common” good.