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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.

A message for the deciders at the COP27: « The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. »

Posted on October 30, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

 « Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know – the earth does not belong to man, man … Continue reading →

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Greenpeace denuncia queimadas em Território de Uso Comum do Rio Manicoré, no Amazonas!

Posted on October 30, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Em março, a destruição já havia sido detectada pelo sistema de monitoramento do Greenpeace, Papa-Alpha Queimada em área recém desmatada de mais de 1900 hectares, dentro da área protegida pela Concessão de Direito Real de Uso (CDRU) do Rio Manicoré, … Continue reading →

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COP27 in November really is turning into a crucial meeting — Energy in Demand – Sustainable Energy – Rod Janssen

Posted on October 30, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Since COP26 in Glasgow last year, emissions have reached record levels after the pandemic downturn. And this year alone, we’ve seen dozens of catastrophic disasters ranging from drought in the Horn of Africa to floods in Pakistan, South Africa and … Continue reading →

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IO SONO IL CLIMA – 2023 – NEMOURS

Posted on October 29, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

LA FORESTA STA BRUCIANDO! Mostra dal 30 ottobre al 20 novembre 2023 Ho organizzato una mostra d’arte sul clima durante alla « Conferenza delle parti delle Nazioni Unite sui cambiamenti climatici » ogni anno dal 2015. « Stiamo perdendo la nostra … Continue reading →

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Relatório aponta ameaça a botos da Amazônia — Ecoamazônia

Posted on October 29, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Documento elaborado pela WWF reúne dados sobre espécies em risco de extinção em todo o planeta O Relatório Planeta Vivo aponta que o boto amazônico foi uma das espécies que sofreu grande redução na sua população nas últimas décadas. 27 … Continue reading →

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UK firms using legal muscle to facilitate human rights and climate abuses – report — Stigmatis

Posted on October 29, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Miners in Bolivia. Transform Trade says the UK has recently instigated 66 cases involving the legal instruments known as investor-state dispute settlements, which disproportionately target developing countries. Photograph: Paul Jeffrey/Alamy Transform Trade charity says British-based companies are among main bringers of … Continue reading →

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YO SOY EL CLIMA – 2022 – NEMOURS

Posted on October 28, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

¡EL BOSQUE ESTÁ ARDIENDO! Exposición del 30 de octubre al 20 de noviembre de 2022 He organizado una exposición de arte climático en la « Conferencia de las Partes de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático » todos los … Continue reading →

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How we are destroying the ecosystem and preponing our ends! — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Posted on October 28, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Originally posted on Eudaimonia: While I was reading ecology I was mesmerized by various exotic facts. In my previous article on ecology titled “Want to know a bit about the magnificent ecology, we blindly destroys?” I tried to few things about … Continue reading →

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Por queimadas, Xingu tem ar 53 vezes pior do que recomendado pela OMS! — Ecoamazônia

Posted on October 28, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

A aldeia Afukuri, no Território Indígena do Xingu, sudoeste da Amazônia, registrou uma qualidade do ar 53 vezes pior do que o indicado como aceitável pela OMS (Organização Mundial da Saúde) na segunda quinzena de setembro deste ano. 33 more words … Continue reading →

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EU SOU O CLIMA – 2022 – NEMOURS

Posted on October 27, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

A FLORESTA ESTÁ QUEIMANDO! Exposição de 30 de outubro a 20 de novembro de 2022 Organizei uma exposição de arte climática no decorrer « Conferência das Nações Unidas das Partes sobre Mudanças Climáticas » todos os anos desde 2015. « Estamos … Continue reading →

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