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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.

One Overlooked Consequence of Global Warming: Insomnia — Mother Jones

Posted on January 8, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Rising temperatures driven by the climate crisis are cutting the sleep of people across the world, the largest study to date has found. 803 more words One … Continue reading →

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O uso da tribo amazônica pelo comerciante de ouro Cartier leva os defensores Indígenas a alegar hipocrisia! Os Yanomami dizem: “Como pode uma empresa de ourivesaria, contra a qual nós Yanomami nos opomos, usar a imagem dos Yanomami? & “Quem compra um anel de ouro faz parte do crime!

Posted on January 7, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

É você? Crianças Yanomami sofrendo de desnutrição e intoxicação por mercúrio diretamente ligada à mineração de ouro. publicidade Cartier/Fundação Cartier “Os Yanomami estão pagando o preço com sua saúde e com suas próprias vidas pela implacável avidez por ouro de … Continue reading →

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We need no external belongings — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Posted on January 7, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

When we grow in our understanding, we become aware that we need no external belongings to define our happiness, fulfillment, success, and purpose. We need no external belongings We need no external belongings — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the … Continue reading →

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La tribu amazonienne affichée sur le site Cartier se rebelle ! L’or continue de faire des ravages en Amazonie… Les Yanomami disent : « Comment une entreprise de bijoux en or, contre laquelle nous, les Yanomami, sommes opposés, peut-elle utiliser l’image des Yanomami ? & “Quiconque achète une bague en or fait partie du crime !”

Posted on January 6, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Est-ce toi ? Enfants Yanomami souffrant de malnutrition et d’empoisonnement au mercure directement liés à l’extraction de l’or. https://www.presse-citron.net/cartier-accuse-dexploiter-limage-dune-tribu-amazonienne/ En effet, Alain Dominique Perrin a été Président de la maison de joaillerie, horlogerie et accessoires en or Cartier de 1975 … Continue reading →

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Festas e rituais guardam lições sobre a ancestralidade dos Indígenas do Tocantins — Ecoamazônia

Posted on January 6, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

“Amji kin” é uma expressão que a etnia Krahô utiliza para se referir à felicidade. As celebrações dos Amji kins envolvem cantos, danças, brincadeiras, troca de alimentos, corrida de tora e rituais de “passagem”, seja de idade ou final de … Continue reading →

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Gold merchant Cartier’s use of Amazon tribe prompts Indigenous advocates to allege hypocrisy! Yanomami say: “How can a gold jewelry company, which we Yanomami people are against, use the image of the Yanomami?” & “Anyone who buys a gold ring is part of the crime! »

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Is this you? Yanomami children suffering from malnutrition and mercury poisoning directly linked with gold mining. Cartier/Foundation Cartier publicity Fabiano Maisonnave’s article for AP is here: https://apnews.com/article/brazil-amazon-gold-indigenous-yanomami-cartier-venezuela-6533687f2da0ea66a4bd72e8f211de69 In fact, Alain Dominique Perrin was President of the Cartier gold jewelry, watch … Continue reading →

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Bosques «comestibles» para frenar el cambio climático generando alimentos — Stigmatis

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Plantación en Soto del Real, Imágenes de Ana Múgica cedidas por Life Terra Madrid | 9 may 2022 Las fundaciones Hope Acción Climática y Life Terra han puesto en marcha en la localidad de Soto del Real (Madrid) su primer … Continue reading →

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These Birds Know They’re In Heaven Here On Earth.

Posted on January 4, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

When will WE understand it? Please Help Nature: #Boycott all products of #Deforestation; Gold, PalmOil, Soy, Beef, ExoticWood, Gemstones, etc. !!! *in memory of my Paris friend, Lori Ellison

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“L’artiste et le vivant”, Valérie BELMOKHTAR — Sur mes brizées

Posted on January 4, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Dans sa démarche créative, l’artiste doit-il s’interroger sur son empreinte écologique ? A cette question, à laquelle on ne pense pas forcément, Valérie Belmokhtar, artiste elle-même, répond résolument par l’affirmative.Selon elle, le temps n’est plus où l’artiste pouvait s’affranchir de considérations … Continue reading →

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The Amazon Rainforest, Indigenous Peoples and Wildlife in Peril! – a series of short films by Barbara Crane Navarro – 10 – « Yanomami children and their community in the Amazon Rainforest » 13:16

Posted on January 3, 2024 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

A film of instants of daily life of a Yanomami community in the Amazon Rainforest of Venezuela made to accompany the children’s book series: “Amazon Rainforest Magic” “La Magie de l’Amazonie” and “La Magia de la Amazonia” for ages 8 … Continue reading →

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