page_title: Aviva Rahmani
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Aviva Rahmani / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: Warming Skies Over the Louisiana Bayous Seen from a Train Window digital photographic print on aluminum, 48" x 48", 2009. (Photograph by Aviva Rahmani)
context_page_description: Aviva Rahmani is an Ecological artist whose public and ecological art projects have involved collaborative interdisciplinary community teams with scientists, planners, environmentalists and other artists. Her projects range from complete landscape restorations to museum venues that reference painting, sound and photography.
  Early influences on her work include her interdisciplinary Classical studies at NYU, engagement in activism, as with the Bread and Puppet Theatre, her work in city planning in San Diego County in the 1980s and Vinalhaven Island, Maine in the 1990s, and the merging of science with aesthetics.
context_section_description: Rahmani attended the Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture, and got her MA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California on a scholarship and stipend to work with Allan Kaprow and Morton Sobotnick, receiving a double degree in multi-media and electronic music. Rahmani has taught, lectured and performed internationally, and is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including two from the Nancy H. Gray Foundation for Art in the Environment in 1999 and 2000. More recently, Rahmani concurrently studied for a GIS certificate at Lehman College, CUNY, while finishing a dissertation at Plymouth University, UK.
caption: Warming Skies Over the Louisiana Bayous Seen from a Train Window digital photographic print on aluminum, 48" x 48", 2009. (Photograph by Aviva Rahmani)
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