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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.

ART ALERTE! – Cartier is showing their greenwashing art show « The Yanomami Struggle » in NY from February 3 till April 16. The fact that the Cartier… — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

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

Originally posted on Transformations: Is anyone/a group willing to make and hold a sign up in front of The Shed building in Hudson Yards on February … ART ALERTE! – Cartier is showing their greenwashing art show « The Yanomami Struggle » … Continue reading →

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« Non à l’OR DU SANG ! – Pas de Cartier ! » Yanomami et les Arbres contre Extraction d’Or, empoisonnement au Mercure et articles de Luxe en Or / Exposition 2023

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

« Les chamans Yanomami qui combattent l’épidémie de xawara voient l’image de la maladie apparaître sous la forme de bandes de tissu écarlate. L’épidémie de xawara approche et sa fumée est rougeoyante! Elle fait du ciel un fantôme et dévore tous … Continue reading →

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ART ALERTE ! – Cartier is showing their greenwashing art show « The Yanomami Struggle » in NY from February 3 till April 16. The fact that the … — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

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

Is anyone/a group willing to make and hold a sign up in front of The Shed building in Hudson Yards on February 3rd with this message: « Over 570 … ART ALERTE ! – Cartier is showing their greenwashing art … Continue reading →

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ONU está apoiando Brasil em emergência na comunidade indígena Yanomami — Ecoamazônia

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

Chefe do sistema da ONU no país, Silvia Rucks, se reuniu com novo ministro dos Direitos Humanos após governo declarar emergência de saúde na maior reserva indígena brasileira; 12 agências das Nações Unidas preparam proposta de resposta integrada. 30 more words … Continue reading →

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« No to GOLD! – No to Cartier ! » Yanomami and Trees versus Gold Mining, Mercury poisoning and Gold Luxury items / Exhibition 2023

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

« The Yanomami shamans who fight the xawara epidemic see the disease’s image appear in the form of strips of scarlet fabric. The xawara epidemic is approaching and its smoke is glowing red! It is making the sky become ghost and is devouring all the … Continue reading →

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Lula moves to protect indigenous Yanomani amid hunger deaths! — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

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

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has called for emergency action to assist the country’s Yanomami indigenous group, according to a … Lula moves to protect indigenous Yanomani amid hunger deaths Lula moves to protect indigenous Yanomani amid hunger deaths … Continue reading →

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Cartier is showing their greenwashing art show “The Yanomami Struggle” in NY from February 3 till April 16. The fact that the Cartier gold and diamond trinkets shop is in the same shopping complex as the Shed where the Cartier show will be held puts this event in an entirely new dimension than any of their previous shows !!! — Tiny Life

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

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GENOCIDIO: Oltre 570 bambini Yanomami sotto i cinque anni sono morti negli ultimi quattro anni a causa di malattie prevenibili direttamente collegate all’estrazione illegale dell’oro! Il confine Brasile/Venezuela è stato dominato per decenni dall’estrazione illegale dell’oro e una parte consistente dell’oro del sangue Yanomami transita attraverso il Venezuela e si infiltra nella catena di approvvigionamento globale dell’oro, dichiarato con documenti falsi come l’oro di “origine legale”!

Posted on February 1, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

“Più che una crisi umanitaria, quello che ho visto a Roraima è stato un genocidio. Un crimine premeditato contro gli Yanomami, commesso da un governo indifferente alle sofferenze del popolo brasiliano”, ha detto Lula, il neoeletto presidente, dopo aver visitato … Continue reading →

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Genocídio Yanomami! — Linkezine — Tiny Life

Posted on February 1, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

A visita de Lula à terra Yanomami trouxe à tona um tema que estava submerso no nosso país. Em quatro anos de governo Bolsonaro foi possível identificar o avanço da extrema direita e suas políticas. A mais cruel delas foi … Continue reading →

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ART ALERTE! – Cartier is showing their greenwashing art show « The Yanomami Struggle » in NY from February 3 till April 16. The fact that the Cartier gold and diamond trinkets shop is in the same shopping complex as the Shed where the Cartier show will be held puts this event in an entirely new dimension than any of their previous shows !!! — Barbara Crane Navarro — MARY CALVO

Posted on February 1, 2023 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Originally posted on Transformations: Is anyone/a group willing to make and hold a sign up in front of The Shed building in Hudson Yards on February 3rd with this message: « Over 570 Yanomami children have died in the past … Continue reading →

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