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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.

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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Barbara Crane Navarro: Artist & Activist In Her Own Words — Palm Oil Detectives

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

Bio: Barbara Crane Navarro Barbara Crane Navarro is a French artist, writer, Indigenous and animal activist who lives near Paris. From 1968 to 1973 she studied at Rhode Island School of Design, then she went on to study at the … Continue reading →

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«Wayumi», un film sul viaggio di identità e appartenenza di una famiglia in due mondi completamente diversi, e la sensazione di tornare a casa…

Posted on June 23, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Foto: Yarima Wayumi è un lungometraggio documentario che ripercorre il viaggio emotivo di David Good e sua madre, Yarima, mentre navigano in due mondi molto diversi ed esaminano questioni critiche sulla famiglia e sulla comunità, superando le differenze culturali. Durante … Continue reading →

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Uma oportunidade para Lula e para o PT — SUMAÚMA

Posted on June 23, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Como um gigantesco bumerangue de aço e concreto, Belo Monte volta à mesa do novo governo Uma oportunidade para Lula e para o PT — SUMAÚMA

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« Wayumi », una película sobre el viaje de identidad y pertenencia de una familia en dos mundos completamente diferentes, y la sensación de volver a casa…

Posted on June 22, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Foto: Yarima Wayumi es un largometraje documental que rastrea el viaje emocional de David Good y su madre, Yarima, mientras navegan por dos mundos muy diferentes y examinan preguntas críticas sobre la familia y la comunidad mientras superan las diferencias … Continue reading →

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