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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 Ancients Noted This Clever Whale Behavior 2,000 Years Before Scientists Did! — Mother Jones

Posted on March 6, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Mysterious whale feeding behavior only documented by scientists in the 2010s has been described in ancient texts about sea creatures as early as two millennia … Continue reading →

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« Nous ne voulons pas arracher l’or et les minéraux de la terre ni faire retomber sur nous leurs fumées épidémiques. Nous voulons juste que le ciel soit clair pour que nous puissions voir les étoiles à la tombée de la nuit. »

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

« Nous, gens de la forêt, n’avons de plaisir qu’à évoquer des hommes généreux. C’est pourquoi nous possédons peu de choses et nous en sommes satisfaits. Mais les Blancs sont d’autres personnes que nous. Leur marchandise n’est pas aussi précieuse … Continue reading →

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A natureza é o clima: esquecemos disso por nossa conta e risco! — SUMAÚMA

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

O desastre em São Paulo nos lembra que devemos fortalecer a floresta amazônica e outros pilares naturais que ‘sustentam o céu’ A natureza é o clima: esquecemos disso por nossa conta e risco — SUMAÚMA

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Barbara Crane Navarro: Artist & Activist In Her Own Words — Palm Oil Detectives

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

Barbara Crane Navarro: In Her Own Words Artist, Writer, Environmental & Indigenous Rights Activist Link Link Amazon Twitter Facebook Bio: Barbara Crane Navarro Barbara Crane Navarro is a French artist, writer, Indigenous and animal activist who lives near Paris. From … Continue reading →

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« We do not want to tear gold and minerals out of the earth nor make their epidemic fumes fall back on us. We just want the sky to be clear so that we can see the stars when night falls. »

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

« We people of the forest only have pleasure in the evocation of generous men. This is why we possess few things, and we are satisfied with that. But the white people are other people than us. Their merchandise is also … Continue reading →

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As veias abertas do Peru!

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

Grande riqueza em recursos naturais são o pano de fundo da queda do presidente Castillo Terra devastada: recursos minerais são extraídos no Peru sem consideração e sem benefício para a população em geral (mina de ouro Yanacocha) Por Thorben Austen … Continue reading →

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Más del 59 % del territorio de Argentina sufre sequía, según un informe — Stigmatis News

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

Buenos Aires.- Un 59,58 % del territorio argentino padece distintos grados de sequía, según difundió este martes el Sistema de Información de Sequías para el Sud de Sudamérica (Sissa). Según el informe, un 40,42 % de Argentina, 1.012.570 kilómetros cuadrados, … Continue reading →

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Il vero costo dei i tuoi gioielli: i cartelli riciclano denaro per droga vendendo oro a sangue a Cartier e altri nel settore del lusso, così come per scontare i negozi di oro, e lo Yanomami e altri popoli Indigeni sta pagando il prezzo!

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

L’oro illegale è il modo più redditizio per i cartelli della droga, i gruppi terroristici, i trafficanti di armi, la mafia, i banchieri senza scrupoli e i commercianti e mediatori di oro internazionali per riciclare denaro perché a differenza della … Continue reading →

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Mais de um terço da floresta amazônica sofre com degradação causada por humanos, aponta estudo!

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

Foto tirada em 2015 de uma floresta em chamas em Belterra, na Amazônia brasileira O processo de degradação da Amazônia é bem maior do que os cientistas acreditavam ser, segundo um estudo publicado nesta quinta-feira (26) na revista “Science” e … Continue reading →

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Native Filmmakers Decolonize the Screen — Lara Trace Hentz

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