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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 Gold Band. Twenty TONS of Waste.

Posted on May 12, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Originally posted on Midwest Mary:
We do love our luxuries and conveniences. Gold, silver, diamonds, and precious jewels make us feel sophisticated, elegant, and important. But how many of us are aware of the impact our adornments have on our…

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“Oro legale”: la società aurifera quotata a Londra Serabi Gold sta estraendo oro nella miniera di Coringa senza l’approvazione delle comunità indigene interessate o delle autorità brasiliane!

Posted on May 12, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Regione dell’Amazzonia brasiliana delle comunità Baú e Kayapó Mekrãgnoti. Su Twitter, Serabi Gold @Serabi_Gold “Una società brasiliana di estrazione e sviluppo dell’oro quotata su AIM (SRB) e TSX (SBI, con attività situate nella regione di Tapajós nello ‘Stato del Pará’” … Continue reading →

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Comunidade caiçara do Guarujá fará denúncia internacional contra a Cargill!

Posted on May 12, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Moradores e pescadores do Sítio Conceiçãozinha reclamam de não terem sido ouvidos sobre obras de ampliação do terminal da gigante mundial dos alimentos, que deverá fechar antiga saída para o mar Por Cida de Oliveira, da RBA São Paulo – A … Continue reading →

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Utah’s Suicide Pact With the Fossil Fuel Industry! — Mother Jones

Posted on May 12, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

The GPS coordinates weren’t especially helpful last May as we drove across the remote Tavaputs Plateau in Utah’s Uinta Basin. Cell service was spotty in the vast expanse of land crosshatched with unpaved roads identified on the map only as … Continue reading →

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“Oro legal”: ¡La compañía de oro que cotiza en Londres Serabi Gold está extrayendo oro en la mina Coringa sin la aprobación de las comunidades Indígenas afectadas o las autoridades brasileñas!

Posted on May 11, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

foto: Serabi Gold En Twitter, Serabi Gold @Serabi_Gold “Una empresa brasileña de extracción y desarrollo de oro que cotiza en AIM (SRB) y TSX (SBI, con activos ubicados en la región de Tapajós del ‘Estado de Pará’ anunció el 20 … Continue reading →

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A ruína de Belo Monte e o enigma da foz do Amazonas encaram o novo presidente do Ibama — SUMAÚMA

Posted on May 11, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Em entrevista a SUMAÚMA, Rodrigo Agostinho afirma que a decisão sobre o projeto da Petrobras de explorar petróleo na costa do Oiapoque será tomada com o exame ‘de todos os impactos possíveis e imagináveis’ e que a licença da hidrelétrica … Continue reading →

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Solutions, solutions… solutions? Toxic plastics, toxic air, toxic water… toxic intentions? — Stigmatis News

Posted on May 11, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Speaking of solutions we could also speak, in the first instance, of cleaning up the planet and space. The accumulated garbage, inside and outside the planet, is so great that we could already change the name of “Planet Earth” to … Continue reading →

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“Ouro Legal”: a empresa de ouro Serabi Gold, listada em Londres, está extraindo ouro na mina de Coringa sem a aprovação das comunidades indígenas afetadas ou das autoridades brasileiras!

Posted on May 10, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

imagem: Serabi Gold No Twitter, Serabi Gold @Serabi_Gold “Uma empresa brasileira de mineração e desenvolvimento de ouro listada na AIM (SRB) e TSX (SBI, com ativos localizados na região do Tapajós no ‘Estado do Pará’” anunciou em 20 de abril … Continue reading →

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Sudáfrica y EEUU combatirán juntos la financiación de tráfico de vida salvaje — Stigmatis News

Posted on May 10, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Johannesburgo | Sudáfrica y Estados Unidos han acordado combatir juntos la “financiación del tráfico de vida silvestre”, informó hoy el Gobierno estadounidense con motivo de la visita de la secretaria del Tesoro, Janet Yellen, al país africano. Recurso de archivo. … Continue reading →

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Scientists: Critical Ocean Currents Could Collapse Within Decades! — Mother Jones

Posted on May 10, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It is being hailed as a sea change in scientific understanding of the global ocean circulation system and how it will respond as the world … Continue reading →

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