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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.

Regulation is required to mitigate the high cumulative propagule pressure exerted by escaped pet parrots — The Applied Ecologist

Posted on June 29, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Margaret Stanley, Ellery McNaughton, Rachel Fewster and Josie Galbraith talk us through their recent research that uses reports of lost pet birds to estimate the cumulative propagule pressure that the pet trade exerts on the establishment of introduced bird species. … Continue reading →

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My Favorite Little Film! – Sometimes we miss the most beautiful moments – DON’T MISS THIS one! A magical 38-second film – “The Yanomami boy’s surprise friend in the jungle”!

Posted on June 28, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Please help protect the forests, rivers, wildlife and the lives of the Yanomami and other Indigenous peoples by boycotting ALL products from deforestation; gold, palm oil, exotic wood, soy, beef, etc. Here’s the 38-second film of the Yanomami boy in … Continue reading →

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MammalWeb: The potential of citizen science for large-scale mammal monitoring — The Applied Ecologist

Posted on June 28, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Feature photo: A camera trap photo © MammalWeb (CC BY-SA 2.0) In their latest article, Pen-Yuan Hsing et al. describe the processes involved in launching and running MammalWeb – a successful camera trapping project that has produced over 440,00 classified … Continue reading →

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Todos los vivos son interdependientes: una entrevista con la artista Barbara Crane Navarro — Open Americas

Posted on June 27, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Barbara Crane Navarro es una artista, autora y activista francesa que actualmente vive cerca de París. Durante 12 años, pasó los meses de invierno con el pueblo Yanomami en Venezuela y Brasil, una experiencia que inspiró su práctica artística y … Continue reading →

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Smart orchard design improves crop pollination — The Applied Ecologist

Posted on June 27, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

In their new research article, Mina Anders (University of Göttingen, Germany) and colleagues compared the effects of agronomic practices, including agronomic inputs (irrigation and managed honey bees), orchard design without external inputs (spatial orchard structure), and landscape factors on nut … Continue reading →

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Tout le monde vivant est interdépendant: une question & réponse avec l’artiste Barbara Crane Navarro — Open Americas

Posted on June 26, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Barbara Crane Navarro est une artiste, auteur et activiste française qui vit actuellement près de Paris. Pendant 12 ans, elle a passé les mois d’hiver avec le peuple Yanomami au Venezuela et au Brésil, une expérience qui a inspiré sa … Continue reading →

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The CUT Campaign and its partners ask MP Kemi Badenoch to keep UK tariffs palm oil to prevent ecocide — Palm Oil Detectives

Posted on June 26, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Last month UK Tory MP Kemi Badenoch announced that a new UK trade deal would cut tariffs on palm oil imports from 12% to zero. This move will likely grease the way towards the UK importing palm oil deforestation and … Continue reading →

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“All the Living World is Interdependent:” A Q&A with Artist Barbara Crane Navarro – Open Americas

Posted on June 25, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project
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The Strange and Secret Ways That Animals Perceive the World — Stigmatis

Posted on June 25, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Learning what organisms experience could help explain what they communicate. Nonhuman creatures have senses that we’re just beginning to fathom. What would they tell us if we could only understand them? By Elizabeth Kolbert | THE NEW YORKER | June 6, … Continue reading →

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For Summer Reading! – “Amazon Rainforest Magic” y “La Magia de la Amazonia” et “La Magie de l’Amazonie”: Fantasy-Adventure books for children – ENGLISH, ESPAÑOL, FRANÇAIS – tales of Yanomami life in the Amazon Rainforest – ages 8 to 100!

Posted on June 24, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

For more Volume 1 details – in the USA, please click here: https://goo.GL/VmexDS Amazon Rainforest Magic: The adventures of Meromi, a Yanomami girl (Volume 2) – front and back covers For more Volume 2 details – in the USA, please … Continue reading →

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