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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.

Contes animés en langue indigène (et traduits) – Les Mayo ou Yoremes – L’origine du feu — Peuples autochtones d’Abya Yala — Tiny Life

Posted on October 7, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Publié le 16 Novembre 2016 L’origine du feu On raconte qu’il y a très longtemps, tous les animaux désiraient connaître le feu qui se trouvait sur la plus haute colline.Après un consensus, les animaux ont ordonné à un crapaud de … Continue reading →

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Far North on the BC Coast, Indigenous Guardians Patrol Their Ancestral Wilds — Mother Jones

Posted on October 7, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. No one knows how long diesel had been seeping from a crack in the tanker truck, parked at an old cannery on the bank … Continue reading →

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Les Yanomami demandent l’attention de tous, s’il vous plaît ! Les enfants Yanomami meurent !

Posted on October 6, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Depuis juillet 2020, vingt mille orpailleurs illégaux ont envahi criminellement notre territoire ! Ils déboisent et détruisent nos terres, contaminent notre eau, nos sols et nos poissons avec du mercure, harcèlent nos femmes et nos filles et nous menacent avec … Continue reading →

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Estudo do Imazon mostra grande avanço do desmatamento e da degradação florestal na Amazônia!

Posted on October 6, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Apenas em agosto, foram derrubados 1.415 km². Além disso, a degradação florestal causada pela extração de madeira e pelas queimadas cresceu 54 vezes Sobrevoo do Greenpeace em julho mostrou queimada em Rondônia (Foto: Christian Braga/Greenpeace) Por Imazon O desmatamento acumulado … Continue reading →

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Survivors Are Preserving the Dark History of Native Boarding Schools — Mother Jones

Posted on October 6, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Six-year-old Phyllis Webstand wore an orange shirt to her first day of school. It was shiny, she remembers, and laced up the front—more importantly, it was a gift from her granny. 705 more words Survivors Are Preserving the Dark History of … Continue reading →

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The Yanomami ask for everyone’s attention, please! Yanomami children are dying!  

Posted on October 5, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Since July 2020, twenty thousand illegal gold miners have criminally invaded our territory! They deforest and destroy our land, contaminate our water, soil and fish with mercury, harass our women and girls and threaten us with guns!  We use the … Continue reading →

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Balsas de garimpo ilegal voltam a bloquear o rio Madeira!

Posted on October 5, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

A atividade predatória ocorre na altura da comunidade de Fortaleza do Bom Intento, município de Manicoré, estado do Amazonas Imagem de satélite PLANETº da comunidade de Fortaleza do Bom Intento (AM) analisada pelo Greenpeace Brasil na segunda-feira (26) São Paulo, … Continue reading →

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Contes animés en langue indigène (et traduits) – Les Ch’oles – L’origine de la vie — Peuples autochtones d’Abya Yala — Tiny Life

Posted on October 5, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Publié le 19 Novembre 2016 L’ORIGINE DE LA VIE On raconte qu’il y a très longtemps, Ch’ujtiat , le señor du ciel a créé la Terre et douze hommes immortels pour la charger sur leurs épaules.Quand ceux-ci se fatiguent et … Continue reading →

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“Arte” e “Natura” sono merchandising “Oro” per Cartier! – L’arte è solo un altro oggetto di lusso e accessorio alla moda? – Ecco l’ennesima mostra d’arte “greenwashing” in collaborazione con Cartier…

Posted on October 4, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

 Questa volta è “Come Home Again” di Es Devlin in collaborazione con Cartier al Tate Modern Garden – visibile per 11 giorni La pubblicità di Cartier recita: “Cartier PER LA NATURA – La natura è fonte di ispirazione e una … Continue reading →

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91,6% da área garimpada no Brasil ficam no bioma Amazônia!

Posted on October 4, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Apenas dois estados – Pará e Mato Grosso – concentram 91,9% do garimpo no Brasil. Avanço do garimpo sobre terras indígenas foi de 632% entre 2010 e 2021 A área de garimpo no Brasil dobrou em apenas uma década e confirmou … Continue reading →

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