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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.

This is a Britain that has lost its Queen – and the luxury of denial about its past! by Afua Hirsch | The Guardian — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

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

Source: This is a Britain that has lost its Queen – and the luxury of denial about its past | Afua Hirsch | The Guardian This is a Britain that has lost its Queen – and the luxury of denial about … Continue reading →

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Exposición 2022 – 2023 « ¡No al ORO! ¡Sin Cartier! » Yanomami y los árboles / ¡NO a la minería aurífera y la deforestación! – En memoria del artivist Jaider Esbell

Posted on September 13, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Los chamanes Yanomami que luchan contra la epidemia de xawara ven aparecer la imagen de la enfermedad en forma de bandas de tela escarlata. ¡La epidemia de xawara se acerca y su humo brilla! Hace que el cielo sea un fantasma y devora a … Continue reading →

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Grandes partes da Amazônia atingiram ponto de inflexão, podendo nunca mais se recuperar, diz grande estudo!

Posted on September 13, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Faixas da floresta tropical atingiram o ponto de inflexão, conclui pesquisa de cientistas e organizações indígenas Fumaça sobe de uma queimada ilegal em uma reserva de floresta tropical ao sul de Novo Progresso, no estado do Pará, Brasil. Fotografia: Carl … Continue reading →

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Land grab! The new colonialism (Tipping Point is here) — Lara Trace Hentz

Posted on September 13, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

SOURCE Listen to the podcast Podcast: Play in new window | Download  Duration: 20:50 To ensure their future food security, rich countries are buying up land in poor countries. Ah, that’s China, you may think!  But as Stefano Liberti, author … Continue reading →

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Exposição 2022 – 2023 – « Não ao OURO! Não Cartier! » Yanomami e as árvores / NÃO ao garimpo e ao desmatamento! – Em memória do artivist Jaider Esbell

Posted on September 12, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Os xamãs Yanomami que lutam contra a epidemia de xawara veem a imagem da doença aparecer forma de tiras de tecido escarlate. A epidemia de xawara está se aproximando e sua fumaça está vermelha brilhante! Ele transforma o céu em … Continue reading →

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En 20 años se deforestaron más de tres millones de hectáreas en Colombia! Stigmatis

Posted on September 12, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Fotografía de archivo de la selva amazónica incinerada en San José del Guaviare (Colombia). EFE/ Mauricio Dueñas Castañeda Bogotá | 8 Sep. 2022 Colombia ha perdido en las últimas dos décadas 3.182.876 hectáreas de bosques por deforestación y la región … Continue reading →

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Giant Otter Pteronura brasiliensis — Palm Oil Detectives

Posted on September 12, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

The agile and graceful tumbling Olympians of the Amazonian rivers, Giant Otters are able to swim 100 metres in less than 30 seconds. They are also known as the Lobo de Rio (the River wolf), Los Lobos del Rio (Wolves … Continue reading →

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Exposition 2022 – 2023 – « Non à l’OR ! Pas de Cartier ! » – Yanomami et les arbres / NON à l’extraction de l’or et à la déforestation ! – En mémoire de l’artiste Jaider Esbell

Posted on September 11, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Les chamans Yanomami qui combattent l’épidémie de xawara voient l’image de la maladie apparaître sous la forme de bandes de tissu écarlate. L’épidémie de xawara approche et sa fumée est rougeoyante! Elle fait du ciel un fantôme et dévore tous … Continue reading →

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Researchers Find 7,300-mile Ring of Mercury Around Tar Sands in Canada — Lara Trace Hentz – this is from 2013 and it’s worse now!

Posted on September 11, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Originally posted on Warrior Publications: by Peter Moskowitz, Al Jazeera America, Dec 29, 2013 Tar Sands in northern Alberta. Scientists have found a nearly 7,500-square-mile ring of land and water contaminated by mercury surrounding the tar sands in Alberta, where energy … Continue reading →

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Desmatamento no mês de agosto chega a 1.661 km², sendo o segundo pior da série histórica!

Posted on September 11, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Dados divulgados pelo Inpe mostra que o registrado em agosto perde apenas para o ano de 2019 e acumulado desde janeiro é o maior da série  Imagem aérea de desmatamento e queimadas no maior desmatamento registrado na Amazônia em 2022 … Continue reading →

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