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2009, she began presenting performance workshops on her theoretical approach to

environmental restoration. Rahmani received an Arts and Healing Network award in

2009 for her work on water. She is currently an Affiliate at the Institute for Arctic and

Alpine Research (INSTAAR), University of Colorado Boulder. In 2015 she was awarded

a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Ecology Residency with the International

Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) to work on the Newtown Creek superfund site.

The Blued Trees Symphony (2015 - present) is an international project that has been

installed and copyrighted in the path of natural gas pipelines across many miles of the

American continent at multiple sites. It is an aspect of Gulf to Gulf (2009- present), a

New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)- sponsored project exploring how art might

affect climate change policies. The Blued Trees Symphony was awarded a NYFA

Fellowship in 2016, as well as a grant from the Ethelwyn Doolittle Justice and Outreach

Fund of the Community Church of New York, Unitarian Universalist and in 2017 received

an award from A Blade of Grass.