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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.

The ‘Vampiric’ Draining and Poisoning of Lifeblood: Water! — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Posted on April 5, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Human Wrongs Watch By Baher Kamal MADRID, Mar 21 2023 (IPS)* – Shockingly, the human suicidal war on Nature not only continues unabated but is also set to become even more virulent. Just to start with, please be reminded that … Continue reading →

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Or légal et or illégal – Si Barrick Gold Corporation ou des orpailleurs cherchaient de l’or dans votre arrière-cour et contaminaient votre seule source d’eau avec du cyanure ou du mercure, vous décoreriez-vous toujours avec des bijoux, des montres et des accessoires en or ?

Posted on April 4, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Un site d’extraction d’or légale contamine les terres autochtones avec du cyanure Droit à la Vie sur les bénéfices légaux de l’or ! Plus vous en savez, moins l’or brille ! Rien ne dit « je t’aime » comme… 20 … Continue reading →

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Ibama relata ações contra garimpo em terra Yanomami! — Ecoamazônia

Posted on April 4, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Com o novo governo, o Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente (Ibama) já passou a ter uma atuação permanente e efetiva, cumprindo decisões judiciais de se combater o garimpo ilegal nas terras indígenas (TIs), tanto a dos ianomami e quanto as … Continue reading →

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Coal Knew, Too! — Stigmatis News

Posted on April 4, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

ILLUSTRATION: REBECCA ZISSER; PHOTOS: GETTY “Exxon knew.” A newly unearthed journal from 1966 shows the coal industry, like the oil industry, was long aware of the threat of climate change. By Élan Young Thanks to the work of activists and … Continue reading →

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Legal Gold and Illegal Gold – If Barrick Gold Corporation or wildcat prospectors were digging for gold in your back yard and contaminating your only source of water with cyanure or mercury, would you still decorate yourself with gold jewelry, watches and accessories?

Posted on April 3, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Right to Life over legal gold profits ! Right to Life over illegal gold profits ! Nothing says “I love you” like… 20 tonnes of mining waste?! That’s how much waste rock is dug up and discarded to produce the amount of … Continue reading →

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

Posted on April 3, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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

Posted on April 3, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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!

Posted on April 2, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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

Posted on April 2, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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

Posted on April 2, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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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