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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.

Como a aliança entre o agro-negócio e o Congresso atua para garantir o retrocesso na legislação socioambiental do Brasil! — SUMAÚMA

Posted on April 18, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Autor do livro ‘Formação Política do Agronegócio’, o antropólogo Caio Pompeia explica como o Instituto Pensar Agropecuária multiplicou a influência do setor ao articular associações de fazendeiros a corporações empresariais, ampliando o poder da bancada ruralista no Congresso para interferir … Continue reading →

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Salvaging the Sacred from Climate Disaster! — Mother Jones

Posted on April 18, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

This story was originally published by Canada’s National Observer and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The floodwaters rose swiftly and silently inside Nicole Norris’s family home and other residences of the Halalt First Nation on Vancouver Island when a … Continue reading →

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Unisciti a noi per altre due settimane di azione contro Barrick Gold! – fino a domenica 30 aprile 2023 – Al fianco delle comunità colpite dall’estrazione dell’oro “legale” in tutto il mondo!

Posted on April 17, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Barrick Gold Corporation Vai a uccidere per l’oro! Mentre Barrick Gold si prepara per l’AGM del 2 maggio, mi unisco alle comunità in prima linea nella loro settimana di azione! Le comunità di tutto il mondo agiranno per mostrare come … Continue reading →

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O que é a Amazônia pra você? — Ecoamazônia

Posted on April 17, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

O que é a Amazônia para você? Essa é a pergunta que deu origem a uma iniciativa que une tecnologia e ativismo jovem para mostrar a Amazônia de quem vive “dentro”: o território real e não contado. 28 more words O … Continue reading →

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A Massive Arctic Drilling Project Is Moving Forward Despite Biden’s Campaign Promises! — Mother Jones

Posted on April 17, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

President Joe Biden is facing the inevitable political fallout from his approval of the Willow Project this week, after a federal judge declined to halt construction on ConocoPhillips’ $8 billion oil drilling venture in the western Arctic. 1,268 more words A Massive Arctic … Continue reading →

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¡Únase a nosotros para una semana de acción contra Barrick Gold! – hasta el domingo 16 de abril de 2023 – ¡De pie junto a las comunidades afectadas por la minería de oro “legal” en todo el mundo!

Posted on April 16, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Mientras Barrick Gold se prepara para su AGM el 2 de mayo, ¡me uno a las comunidades de primera línea en su semana de acción! ¡Las comunidades de todo el mundo tomarán medidas para mostrar cómo Barrick ignora sistemáticamente sus … Continue reading →

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A ‘biblioteca do ouro’, florestas que curam e outras histórias — SUMAÚMA

Posted on April 16, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Resumo em tópicos de algumas das principais reportagens sobre a Amazônia A ‘biblioteca do ouro’, florestas que curam e outras histórias — SUMAÚMA

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FAR-sighted conservation: Facing the inevitability of ongoing environmental change — The Applied Ecologist

Posted on April 16, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Chris Thomas and colleagues describe their latest Perspective article outlining a new framework – Facilitate-Accept-Resist (FAR) – that operationalizes conservation decision-making in a way that leads to greater adoption of positive biodiversity change. Conservation is in a bind. The biological … Continue reading →

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Junte-se a nós para uma semana de ação contra o Barrick Gold! – até domingo, 16 de abril de 2023 – Ao lado das comunidades afetadas pela mineração de ouro “legal” em todo o mundo!

Posted on April 15, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

foto: Barrick Gold Enquanto a Barrick Gold se prepara para sua AGM em 2 de maio, junto-me às comunidades da linha de frente em sua semana de ação! Comunidades ao redor do mundo vão agir para mostrar como a Barrick … Continue reading →

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Las sequías repentinas, cada vez más frecuentes y se prevé que se aceleren — Stigmatis News

Posted on April 15, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Las sequías repentinas, que se intensifican en cuestión de semanas, se han hecho más frecuentes desde finales de la década de 1950 en el 74 % de las 33 regiones del planeta y se prevé que se aceleren en un … Continue reading →

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