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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.

Sometimes we miss the most beautiful moments – DON’T MISS this one! A magical 38-second film – “The Yanomami boy’s surprise friend in the jungle”!

Please help protect the forests, rivers, wildlife and the lives of the Yanomami and other Indigenous peoples by boycotting ALL products from deforestation; gold, palm oil, exotic wood, soy, beef, etc. Here’s the 38-second film of the Yanomami boy in … Continue reading →

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Estudo da PUC/RJ revela como cooperativas de garimpeiros têm sido utilizadas para exploração mineral em escala industrial na Amazônia!

Estudo divulgado pelo Climate Policy Initiative/Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (CPI/PUC-Rio), na sexta-feira (29/04), apresenta evidências de que cooperativas de garimpeiros têm sido utilizadas como forma de viabilizar explorações minerais de natureza industrial ou quase industrial, mas sob regime … Continue reading →

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Contes animés en langue indigène (et traduits) – Peuple Q’anjob’al : La fête du maïs — Peuples autochtones d’Abya Yala — Tiny Life

Publié le 8 Novembre 2020 Basé sur un conte de la tradition orale q’anjob’al du Chiapas – Version française On dit qu’à l’époque de nos grands-parents, l’arrivée du maïs était célébrée pendant la saison des récoltes. Le blanc, le jaune, … Continue reading →

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Gli Yanomami chiedono l’attenzione di tutti, per favore! I bambini Yanomami stanno morendo!

Da luglio 2020, ventimila cercatori d’oro illegali hanno invaso criminalmente il nostro territorio! Disboscano e distruggono le nostre terre, contaminano la nostra acqua, il suolo e i pesci con il mercurio, molestano le nostre donne e figlie e ci minacciano … Continue reading →

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Bancos centrais do mundo estão financiando a destruição das florestas tropicais!

Títulos corporativos destinados a injetar liquidez nos mercados lucraram com empresas envolvidas no desmatamento Títulos corporativos comprados por bancos centrais no Reino Unido, Estados Unidos e Estados membros da UE financiaram empresas envolvidas na destruição da Amazônia, pois cientistas relatam … Continue reading →

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Stories: 1897 “Foks pi Kayuti” + “Coyote and Fox” — Chinook Jargon

It’s time to update the first linguistic study I ever published on Chinuk Wawa. (That’s a live link, if you want to go read some scholarly prose.) That paper, co-written with Professor Henry Davis of UBC, examined an 1897 story … Continue reading →

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¡Los Yanomami piden la atención de todos, por favor! ¡Los niños Yanomami se están muriendo!

¡Desde julio de 2020, veinte mil mineros de oro ilegales han invadido criminalmente nuestro territorio! ¡Deforestan y destruyen nuestras tierras, contaminan nuestras aguas, suelos y peces con mercurio, acosan a nuestras mujeres e hijas y nos amenazan con armas! Usamos … Continue reading →

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60 candidatos da Amazônia têm campanhas financiadas por desmatadores!

Eles receberam um total de R$ 1,77 milhão em 8 estados. A maioria pertence a partidos da base de apoio de Bolsonaro no Congresso, com destaque para o Partido Liberal (PL) e o União Brasil. Candidato do Acre condenado por … Continue reading →

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Dancing the World into Being | Common Dreams — Lara Trace Hentz

A circle dance that took place in downtown Vancouver in December, during the height of the Idle No More protests. (Photo: Flickr | tamara herman) Dancing the World into Being | Common Dreams. If we are not, as peoples of … Continue reading →

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Os Yanomami estão pedindo a atenção de todos, por favor! As crianças Yanomami estão morrendo!

Desde julho de 2020, vinte mil garimpeiros ilegais invadiram criminalmente nosso território! Eles desmatam e destroem nossas terras, contaminam nossa água, solo e peixes com mercúrio, assediam nossas mulheres e filhas e nos ameaçam com armas! Usamos a água de … Continue reading →

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