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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.

Viaje al árbol más alto de la Amazonía — Stigmatis

Posted on October 24, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Río de Janeiro | 8 Oct. 2022 María Angélica Troncoso y Alba Santandreu. -Con casi medio milenio encima, el árbol más alto de la Amazonía brasileña se levanta en un inhóspito lugar de […] Viaje al árbol más alto de la … Continue reading →

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The Amazon Rainforest, Indigenous Peoples and Wildlife in Peril! – a series of short films by Barbara Crane Navarro – 9 – « Yanomami boy’s surprise friend in the jungle! » :38 seconds!

Posted on October 23, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Sometimes we miss the most beautiful moments-DON’T MISS THIS ONE!With Namowë, a Yanomami boy in the Alto Orinoco region, Amazonas, Venezuela in his canoe! It’s an excerpt of my film of instants of the daily life of a Yanomami community … Continue reading →

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‘Mata’, retrato de la violencia contra los bosques y los pueblos originarios — Stigmatis

Posted on October 23, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Imagen del documental ‘Mata’, cedida por los directores. Documental deforestación | 10 Oct. 2022 Mientras la UE ultima su reglamento contra la deforestación importada para frenar la pérdida de bosque que ocasiona la comercialización de productos en Europa, Brasil se … Continue reading →

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A Amazônia brasileira está pegando fogo, enquanto Jair Bolsonaro e Lula indicam metas semelhantes!

Posted on October 23, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Incêndio florestal perto de Brasília no dia 5 de setembro de 2022 Por Norbert Suchanek para o “JungeWelt”  Na região amazônica brasileira, o número de incêndios florestais voltou a aumentar significativamente este ano. O Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), responsável … Continue reading →

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The Amazon Rainforest, Indigenous Peoples and Wildlife in Peril! – a series of short films by Barbara Crane Navarro – 8 – « Totemic Light Sculptures II – Yanomami shamanic chants – Mixed media art installation » 1:19

Posted on October 22, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Yanomami shaman struggle against xawara – the smoke of epidemics – art installation with sounds of many Yanomami shaman chanting to protect the community! The Yanomami shaman who fight the xawara epidemic diseases see their image appear in the form … Continue reading →

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Na véspera das eleições, Amazônia tem pior setembro em alertas de desmatamento da série histórica!

Posted on October 22, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Em comparação à 2021 (985 km²), setembro de 2022 registrou 1.455 km², uma alta de 48% Registro feito em Cujubim (RO), na região da Amacro (Amazonas, Acre e Rondônia), em uma área com cerca de 8.000 hectares de desmatamento. © Nilmar … Continue reading →

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Global Extraction Film Festival – October 26-30, 2022 — Repeating Islands

Posted on October 22, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

The 3rd Global Extraction Film Festival (GEFF2022) takes place on October 26-30, 2022. Streamed online for free worldwide, the festival includes over 250 documentaries and urgent shorts from 50 countries highlighting the destructive impacts of extractive industries. The festival includes … Continue reading →

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The Amazon Rainforest, Indigenous Peoples and Wildlife in Peril! – a series of short films by Barbara Crane Navarro – 7 – « Totemic Light Sculptures – Yanomami shamanic chants – Mixed media art installation I » :49

Posted on October 21, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Yanomami shaman struggle against xawara – the smoke of epidemics – art installation with sounds of many Yanomami shaman chanting to protect the community! The Yanomami shaman who fight the xawara epidemic diseases see their image appear in the form … Continue reading →

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Com 8,5 mil km² desmatados, Amazônia bate recorde nos 9 primeiros meses do ano!

Posted on October 21, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Só em setembro foram 1.455 km² devastados, 48% a mais que em 2021; entre janeiro e setembro, o Cerrado teve aumento de 24% em comparação a 2021 Na Amazônia, entre 1 de janeiro a 30 de setembro, foram registrados alertas … Continue reading →

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Beyond Mascots and Casinos #NativeLivesMatter — Lara Trace Hentz

Posted on October 21, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

But beyond the slot machines, the movie sets and the football fields, there are other problems facing Native communities — insidious, systemic, life-or-death problems; the kinds of problems it takes years and votes and marches to resolve — that aren’t … Continue reading →

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