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About Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

I'm a French artist living near Paris. From 1968 to 1973 I studied at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, then at the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, California, for my BFA. My work for many decades has been informed and inspired by time spent with indigenous communities. Various study trips devoted to the exploration of techniques and natural pigments took me originally to the Dogon of Mali, West Africa, and subsequently to Yanomami communities in Venezuela and Brazil. Over many years, during the winters, I studied the techniques of traditional Bogolan painting. Hand woven fabric is dyed with boiled bark from the Wolo tree or crushed leaves from other trees, then painted with mud from the Niger river which oxidizes in contact with the dye. Through the Dogon and the Yanomami, my interest in the multiplicity of techniques and supports for aesthetic expression influenced my artistic practice. The voyages to the Amazon Rainforest have informed several series of paintings created while living among the Yanomami. The support used is roughly woven canvas prepared with acrylic medium then textured with a mixture of sand from the river bank and lava. This supple canvas is then rolled and transported on expeditions into the forest. They are then painted using a mixture of acrylic colors and Achiote and Genipap, the vegetal pigments used by the Yanomami for their ritual body paintings and on practical and shamanic implements. My concern for the ongoing devastation of the Amazon Rainforest has inspired my films and installation projects. Since 2005, I've created a perfomance and film project - Fire Sculpture - to bring urgent attention to Rainforest issues. To protest against the continuing destruction, I've publicly set fire to my totemic sculptures. These burning sculptures symbolize the degradation of nature and the annihilation of indigenous cultures that depend on the forest for their survival.

E l’Oscar va a: “Il prezzo dell’oro”!

Posted on March 17, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

In concomitanza con gli Academy Awards 2023 a Hollywood, è stata lanciata una campagna creativa e originale guidata da Júnior Hekurari Yanomami per aumentare la consapevolezza globale del vero costo dei danni causati dall’estrazione dell’oro alle comunità indigene Yanomami. Di … Continue reading →

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Creating a new relationship with nature through a ‘stewardship economy’!

Posted on March 17, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Creating a new relationship with nature through a ‘stewardship economy’ https://ift.tt/3FHoaIx “We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use … Continue reading →

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Y el Oscar es para: ¡El precio del oro!

Posted on March 16, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Se lanzó una campaña creativa y original dirigida por Júnior Hekurari Yanomami para crear conciencia global sobre el verdadero costo del daño de la minería de oro para las comunidades indígenas Yanomami coincidiendo con los Premios de la Academia 2023 … Continue reading →

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A última viagem no rio: uma história sobre o martírio de Bruno e Dom!

Posted on March 16, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Assassinado pelas costas na Amazônia mais distante: A morte de um ambientalista brasileiro e um repórter britânico causou indignação internacional. Pesquisa no local, onde indígenas tentam, entre outras coisas, proteger o peixe Pirarucu dos caçadores furtivos e da máfia ambiental … Continue reading →

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E o Oscar vai para: “O preço do ouro”!

Posted on March 15, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Uma campanha criativa e original liderada por Júnior Hekurari Yanomami para aumentar a conscientização global sobre o verdadeiro custo dos danos causados ​​pela mineração de ouro às comunidades Indígenas Yanomami foi lançada para coincidir com o Oscar de 2023 em … Continue reading →

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Still happening years later…International Organizations Join Shuar Arutam People to Press Canadian Embassy in Ecuador to Condemn Canadian Company’s Threats and Abuses — Tiny Life

Posted on March 15, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

31 August 2021, 5.49pm EDT On August 26, 2021, the Shuar Arutam People, along with 136 other Ecuadorian and Canadian organizations, including MiningWatch Canada, sent a letter to Sylvie Bédard, Canada’s Ambassador to Ecuador, asking her to issue a formal … Continue reading →

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Et l’Oscar revient à : “Le prix de l’or” !

Posted on March 14, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Une campagne créative et originale menée par Júnior Hekurari Yanomami pour sensibiliser le monde au véritable coût des dommages causés par les mines d’or aux communautés autochtones Yanomami a été lancée afin de coïncider avec la cérémonie des Oscars 2023 … Continue reading →

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Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia – Nacionalni park Noel Kempf Merkado, Bolivija — Myrela

Posted on March 14, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Niko nije bolje poznavao Nacionalni park Uančaku od profesora Noela Kempfa Merkada. On je bio prirodnjak koji je svoj profesionalni život posvetio istraživanju i sistematskom proučavanju 14.500 km² divljine koju čini visoravan po kojoj je park dobio ime, i široka … Continue reading →

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And the Oscar goes to: “The Cost of Gold”!

Posted on March 13, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

A creative and original campaign led by Júnior Hekurari Yanomami to bring global awareness of the true cost of gold mining damage to Yanomami Indigenous communities was launched in order to coincide with the 2023 Oscars ceremony in Hollywood. Below … Continue reading →

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Observatório BR-319 se posiciona após Ibama liberar Licença Prévia para obras na rodovia sem consulta aos povos da floresta!

Posted on March 13, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Agosto começa com um dos maiores desafios que a questão socioambiental que a BR-319 já enfrentou nos últimos tempos: a liberação da Licença Prévia (LP) para o Trecho do Meio da rodovia. A medida, ao mesmo tempo que é o … Continue reading →

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