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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.

Decolonizing Conservation! — MARY CALVO

Posted on March 26, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Originally posted on Duke University Press News: TOP FIVE Ashley Dawson and Naomi Paik, editors of Alternatives to the Anthropocene, an issue of Radical History Review (145), share their top five books on decolonizing conservation. 1. The Conservation Revolution: Radical … Continue reading →

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Hé, Survival, de quel côté es-tu ? – Du côté des peuples autochtones ou de l’industrie de l’or ? – J’aimerais souligner que le n° 5 de votre “plan en six points” aide UNIQUEMENT l’industrie de l’or !

Posted on March 25, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Barrick Gold Corporation : L’extraction légale de l’or détruit les forêts et contamine les sources d’eau dans le monde ! Une fosse à ciel ouvert à la mine d’or Veladero de Barrick Gold Corp. dans la province argentine de San Juan. La … Continue reading →

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O tempo está fechando: povos isolados correm risco de extinção! — SUMAÚMA

Posted on March 25, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Estudo mostra a urgência de a gestão Lula 3 fortalecer o Ministério dos Povos Indígenas e a Funai para que as demarcações avancem e o combate às violações de direitos seja efetivo e salve vidas O tempo está fechando: povos isolados … Continue reading →

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Living with water pollution in Guatemala! — Stigmatis News

Posted on March 25, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

By Marita Moloney | BBC News The first UN water summit in almost 50 years is taking place this week in New York City, where thousands of delegates will meet to discuss a looming global water crisis caused by overconsumption and overdevelopment. … Continue reading →

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Hey, Survival, Which side are you on? – The side of Indigenous Peoples or the Gold Industry? – I’d like to point out that #5 of your “Six Point Plan” helps ONLY the Gold Industry!

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

Barrick Gold Corporation: Legal gold mining destroys forests and contaminates water sources globally! An open pit at Barrick Gold Corp.’s Veladero gold mine in Argentina’s San Juan province. The mine has estimated reserves of 10 million oz of gold. – … Continue reading →

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Descoberto o ‘mito de origem’ dos 8 mil metros cúbicos por segundo que destroem a Volta Grande do Xingu — SUMAÚMA

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

Graças ao pedido de impugnação do seminário que discutiu o sequestro da água pela usina de Belo Monte, os pesquisadores descobriram que a vazão que está causando uma catástrofe humanitária e ambiental na Amazônia foi definida a partir de um … Continue reading →

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Scientists Deliver “Final Warning” on Climate: Act Now or It’s Too Late! — Mother Jones

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

his story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that … Continue reading →

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NO all’oro nel sangue! – Un messaggio per Davi Kopenawa, Claudia Andujar, Bruce Albert e Survival – con un avvertimento del cacique Raoni Metuktire:

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

Quando il capo Raoni Metuktire è venuto a parlare a Parigi, ha chiesto agli europei di smettere di mangiare carne per proteggere i popoli dello Xingu dalla distruzione del loro territorio da parte dell’agro-industria. Allo stesso modo, tutti voi, parlando … Continue reading →

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Uma oportunidade para Lula e para o PT! — SUMAÚMA

Posted on March 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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Cattle, not coca, drive deforestation of the Amazon in Colombia! – report — Stigmatis News

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

Authorities have blamed the growing of coca – the base ingredient of cocaine – for clearcutting, but a recent study shows otherwise Luke Taylor in Bogotá | Deforestation Cattle-ranching, not cocaine, has driven the destruction of the Colombian Amazon over the … Continue reading →

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