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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.

Costa Rica investiga vínculos entre la tenencia de animales silvestres y delitos del crimen organizado! — Stigmatis — Tiny Life

Posted on September 17, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

13 sep 2022 – Las autoridades de Costa Rica investigan los vínculos existentes entre la tenencia ilegal de animales silvestres y delitos del crimen organizado como […] […] Costa Rica investiga vínculos entre la tenencia de animales silvestres y lavado — Stigmatis … Continue reading →

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Brazil’s Ecocidal Meat Industry is Funded by Big Investment Firms! — MASSolidarity.org

Posted on September 17, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

To conquer the world market, Brazil’s Big Three beef packers — JBS, Marfrig and Minerva — invited in foreign capital. Today, all three are transnationals, with the original Brazilian founders owning only minority shares in their own companies. Foreign investors, … Continue reading →

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Yanomami ! Arbres! Et l’artiste Jaider Esbell ? Une autre parodie « d’art » de l’écoblanchiment par les MARCHANDS d’OR – selon leurs propres mots…

Posted on September 16, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Lettre à l’Ancien MondeGénocide Indigène Brésil La violence est un long cycle. Les ordres anciens continuent de résonner et sont maintenant arrivés dans les dernières forêts vierges du monde. L’ordre? Exterminer! » Jaider Esbell a déclaré : « En tant qu’Autochtones, … Continue reading →

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Report: Saving the Amazon region will require intensive measures! — Stigmatis

Posted on September 16, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Report says Amazon’s restorative capacity is running out (video) Lima | Sep 5 2022 The Amazon region’s ability to restore itself is being exhausted and, if the current rate of deforestation continues, saving the “planet’s green lung” must begin before … Continue reading →

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Corrupção, fraudes e hackers mascaram a origem ilegal da carne na Amazônia!

Posted on September 16, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Novo relatório da ‘Repórter Brasil’ mostra como são facilmente adulterados documentos usados pelos frigoríficos para bloquear compras de bois ligados ao desmatamento ou trabalho escravo, abrindo brecha para fraudes envolvendo até mesmo funcionários públicos Pela Repórter Brasil Os maiores frigoríficos … Continue reading →

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Yanomami! Trees! And the artivist Jaider Esbell? Another « art » travesty of GREENWASHING by the MERCHANTS of GOLD – in their own words…

Posted on September 15, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Letter to the Old World Genocide Indigenous Brazil  Violence is a long cycle. Ancient orders continue to echo and have now arrived in the world’s last virgin forests.  The order? Exterminate! » Jaider Esbell said: « As Indigenous people, we have already … Continue reading →

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El verde se torna negro en la Amazonía peruana… — Stigmatis

Posted on September 15, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Puerto Maldonado | 9 Sep. 2022 Cuando se piensa en la Amazonía, se piensa en verde, no en negro, pero el humo y las cenizas de miles de plantas calcinadas flotan en el ambiente como un presagio del […] El verde … Continue reading →

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Articulação Agro é Fogo publica dados sobre a conexão entre incêndios e conflitos por terra!

Posted on September 15, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Incêndios são armas em conflitos por terra na Amazônia e no Cerrado, onde o agronegócio continua a invadir e ameaçar as comunidades tradicionais Na semana em que celebramos as duas maiores regiões do país (Dia da Amazônia e Dia do … Continue reading →

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Mostra 2022 – 2023 « No all’ORO! Niente Cartier! » Yanomami e gli alberi / NO all’estrazione dell’oro e alla deforestazione! – In memoria dell’artivist Jaider Esbell

Posted on September 14, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Gli sciamani Yanomami che combattono l’epidemia di xawara vedono apparire l’immagine della malattia sotto forma di bande di stoffa scarlatta. L’epidemia di xawara si sta avvicinando e il suo fumo risplende! Rende il cielo un fantasma e divora tutto Umani … Continue reading →

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STF reconhece que o direito de consulta prévia dos povos Indígenas afetados por Belo Monte foi violado! — Ecoamazônia

Posted on September 14, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Decisão do ministro Alexandre de Moraes entende que obras que afetem indígenas exigem consulta Em decisão do dia 1°, o ministro Alexandre de Moraes, do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), reconheceu que o direito dos povos indígenas do médio Xingu a … Continue reading →

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