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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.

Abril Indígena 2023: programação da Funai tem início na próxima segunda-feira (03)! — Ecoamazônia

A Fundação Nacional dos Povos Indígenas (Funai) dá início na próxima segunda-feira (03) à programação do Abril Indígena 2023. Ao longo do mês, serão promovidas uma série de atividades na sede do órgão, em Brasília, tendo como mote a retomada … Continue reading

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Wildlife Is Much More than a Safari. And It Is at Highest Risk of Extinction! — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Human Wrongs Watch By Baher Kamal MADRID, Mar 1 2023 (IPS)* – Wildlife is indeed far much more than a safari or an ‘exotic’ ornament: as many as four billion people –or an entire half the whole world’s population– rely … Continue reading

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Neocolonialismo – Estrazione dell’oro legale e illegale e altre industrie minerarie contro le popolazioni Indigene, la fauna selvatica e l’acqua!

Miniera d’oro legale – image: Bloomberg “Ogni giorno mi sveglio e tutto ciò che vedo intorno a me è dolore e tristezza perché Barrick Gold ha ucciso tutto qui. Tutto è morto.” dice Torres, la cui famiglia vive a Las … Continue reading

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IBGE inicia última etapa do Censo 2022 na Terra Indígena Yanomami — Ecoamazônia

A parte da população yanomami que ainda não tinha recebido o Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) para o Censo 2022 começou a ser visitada nesta segunda-feira (6) em uma operação pontual de coleta de dados que vai finalizar … Continue reading

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Big oil on campus: how US universities are ‘colonized’ by the fossil fuel industry! — Stigmatis News

Princeton University | Oliver Milman Students at Princeton describe unease that Exxon employee had an office on campus, while dozens of universities have big oil links Exonn Composite: The Guardian/Getty Images/Divest Princeton The lecturer looked, and sounded, the part. Sporting a … Continue reading

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¡Neocolonialismo! – ¡Minería de oro legal e ilegal y otras industrias mineras contra los pueblos Indígenas, la vida silvestre y el agua!

Mina de oro legal – foto: Barrick Gold Corporation “Todos los días me despierto y todo lo que veo a mi alrededor es dolor y tristeza porque Barrick Gold mató todo aquí. Todo está muerto”. dice Torres, cuya familia ha … Continue reading

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Ibama, PRF, Funai, PF, Força Nacional e Comando Operacional Conjunto da Amazônia desmobilizam 116 acampamentos clandestinos na Terra Indígena Yanomami! — Ecoamazônia

Operação tem como objetivo interromper linhas de suprimento do garimpo ilegal para forçar a saída dos invasores Boa Vista (11/03/2023) – Operação de retirada pacífica de invasores e combate ao garimpo ilegal na Terra Indígena Yanomami realizada pelo Ibama, em … Continue reading

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Forget geoengineering. We need to stop burning fossil fuels. Right now! — Stigmatis News

Pie-in-the-sky fantasies of carbon capture and geoengineering are a way for decision-makers to delay taking real action By Rebecca Solnit The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, one of which dropped yesterday, are formidably researched and profoundly important, but … Continue reading

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Neocolonialismo – Mineração de ouro legal e ilegal e outras indústrias de mineração contra povos Indígenas, animais selvagens e água!

Mina de ouro de uma mineradora legal – foto: Barrick Gold Corporation “Todo dia eu acordo e tudo que vejo ao meu redor é dor e tristeza porque Barrick Gold matou tudo aqui. Tudo está morto.” diz Torres, cuja família … Continue reading

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El CO2 y su influencia en el aumento de la temperatura global deterioran el clima! — Stigmatis News

Sofía Henales.- Madrid.- El clima, el “conjunto de circunstancias del tiempo atmosférico”, está deteriorado principalmente por “la acumulación de gases de efecto invernadero, sobre todo CO2, y eso tiene una correlación estadística con el aumento de la temperatura media global”, según ha dicho el portavoz … Continue reading

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