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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.

Exhibition 2022 – 2023 – « No to GOLD! Pas de Cartier ! » – Yanomami and Trees / Gold Mining and Deforestation! – In memory of artivist Jaider Esbell

Posted on September 10, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« The Yanomami shamans who fight the xawara epidemic see the disease’s image appear in the form of strips of scarlet fabric. The xawara epidemic is approaching and its smoke is glowing red! It is making the sky become ghost and is devouring all the … Continue reading →

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Cómo es defender el medio ambiente en la región más desigual del mundo. — Stigmatis

Posted on September 10, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Medio Ambiente | 6 Sep. 2022 El pasado 28 de julio, la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas reconoció por primera vez el derecho humano a un medio ambiente limpio, saludable y sostenible. Y, con ello, la importancia de la … Continue reading →

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No Dia Internacional da Mulher Indígena, Funai reafirma seu compromisso com a autonomia das mulheres Indígenas no país — Ecoamazônia

Posted on September 10, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Neste 5 de setembro, Dia Internacional da Mulher Indígena, a Fundação Nacional do Índio (Funai) reforça o seu compromisso com o incentivo e a promoção da autonomia e do protagonismo das mulheres indígenas em aldeias de todo o país, bem … Continue reading →

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« Guarda il mondo da un’altra angolazione! »

Posted on September 9, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Il modo in cui vediamo il mondo modella il modo in cui lo affrontiamo. Se una montagna è una divinità, non un mucchio di minerale; se un fiume è una delle vene della terra, nessuna potenziale acqua di irrigazione; se … Continue reading →

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Crimes against the Amazon reverberate across Brazil, analysis shows — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Posted on September 9, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Crimes associated with illegal logging, mining and other illicit activities in the Brazilian Amazon are being felt in 24 of Brazil’s 27 states, a new report shows. Records of more than 300 Federal Police operations between 2016 and 2021 show … Continue reading →

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Rastro de destruição da soja no cerrado Brasileiro é denunciado ao parlamento Europeu!

Posted on September 9, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

“As commodities que saem do oeste da Bahia são manchadas de sangue”. Foi o que afirmou Aliene Barbosa, da comunidade tradicional de fecho de pasto Tarto (Correntina/BA), durante reunião com uma comitiva do parlamento europeu na última sexta (29/8), na … Continue reading →

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« ¡Mira el mundo desde otro ángulo! »

Posted on September 8, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« La forma en que vemos el mundo da forma a la forma en que lo enfrentamos. Si una montaña es una deidad, no un montón de minerales; si un río es una de las venas de la tierra, no hay … Continue reading →

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How Deforestation Is Pushing the Amazon to a Climate Tipping Point! — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Posted on September 8, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Human Wrongs Watch By Chris Greenberg \ Greenpeace International* When the Amazon rainforest is in danger, we all are. Forest remainders burning in September 2020 in an area registered by the Prodes (Brazilian Amazon Satellite Monitoring Project), in Juara, Mato Grosso … Continue reading →

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Um terço da perda de vegetação nativa do Brasil desde o descobrimento aconteceu nos últimos 37 anos!

Posted on September 8, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Perfil da cobertura e uso da terra no Brasil alterou-se muito nos últimos 37 anos, agravando os desafios de preservação da segurança hídrica, alimentar e energética. Área ocupada pela agricultura cresceu 228% entre 1985 e 2021 Entre 1985 e 2021, … Continue reading →

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« Veja o mundo por outro ângulo! »

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

« A forma como vemos o mundo molda a forma como lidamos com ele. Se uma montanha é uma divindade, não uma pilha de minério; se um rio é um dos veios da terra, não há água potencial para irrigação; se … Continue reading →

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