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Steel holds its shape under heat. Wood shifts, expands and carries grain like memory. Ink accumulates in deliberate, repetitive strokes until time itself feels embedded in the page. For Zakriya Rabani, these components are more than just mediums. They are his collaborators.

In fall 2025, two works by Rabani, a 91香蕉视频 faculty member and director of fine arts operations, were featured in the Jax Contemporary Triennial at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville. Slow Burn, a large-scale sculpture composed of steel, wood, and paint, marked the first major piece he constructed after relocating to Jacksonville. Alongside it, Flow System Drawing with Pen revealed a different kind of endurance: a dense surface built through meticulous mark-making, each line layered with intention.

The pen used to create the drawing was cast in bronze and exhibited with the piece, a quiet but powerful gesture that makes a disposable tool permanent. The act of making is preserved alongside the finished work.

鈥淭o see what I have accomplished and where I've come from makes me feel proud and driven to keep going,鈥� Rabani says.

That balance between discipline and reflection shapes his work at JU. While some artists shy away from institutional structures, Rabani intentionally stepped into one. 鈥淚 love being in the umbrella of an organization like a university,鈥� he says. 鈥淭here are always so many great resources, insights to new technologies and work methods, top-of-the-line equipment, tools, machines. The faculty and staff are stellar and incredibly great to learn from and have discussions with.鈥�

Since arriving in 2023, he has helped shape the visual arts ecosystem on campus, curating exhibitions, guiding installations and teaching courses in 3D Foundations and Object Design. Rather than viewing those responsibilities as separate from his studio practice, he sees them as interconnected forms of building. Infrastructure, like sculpture, requires structure, patience and care. He carries that same philosophy into the classroom.

Over the past two-and-a-half years, he has worked with more than 90 students, mentees who, Rabani says, inspire him to keep creating. 鈥淥ne of the amazing aspects of working and mentoring young artists is that they keep the dream alive in me,鈥� he says. 鈥淚 work to stoke the flame in them.鈥�

In studios and galleries across campus, that flame is tangible. In steel and wood. In ink and bronze. And in the steady encouragement of emerging artists learning to shape their own work.