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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.

Génocide linguistique : un modèle d’immersion dans le Mapuzungun ou la mort d’une langue — Peuples autochtones d’Abya Yala

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

Publié le 5 Août 2018 02/0 8/2018 – Écrit par Miguel Stuardo Concha*. Le système éducatif contribue-t-il à préserver la diversité linguistique du territoire ? Si l’on regarde le cas de la langue mapuche, son statut dans l’éducation formelle et … Continue reading →

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Jaguar Panthera onca — Palm Oil Detectives

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

Jaguar populations are threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation for palm oil, soy and meat along with illegal murder for trophies/illegal trade in body parts. They are also the victims of pro-active or retaliatory killings associated with livestock depredation and … Continue reading →

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« Regardez le monde sous un autre angle ! »

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

« La façon dont nous voyons le monde façonne la manière dont nous le traitons. Si une montagne est une divinité, pas un tas de minerai; si une rivière est l’un des filons du terrain, pas d’eau d’irrigation potentielle ; si … Continue reading →

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Focos de calor na Amazônia atingem o maior número desde 2010! —

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

Número é 18% maior que o registrado no ano passado e moratória do fogo mostra-se mais uma vez ferramenta inútil de combate ao crime ambiental Sobrevoo na região da Amacro (Amazonas, Acre e Rondônia), em uma área com cerca de … Continue reading →

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After Two Murders, a Brazilian Indigenous Leader Steps Up the Fight – Yale E360 — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

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

Source: After Two Murders, a Brazilian Indigenous Leader Steps Up the Fight – Yale E360 After Two Murders, a Brazilian Indigenous Leader Steps Up the Fight – Yale E360 — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

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« Look at the world from a different perspective! »

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

« The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a … Continue reading →

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Sobrevoo na bacia do Rio Tapajós mostra grande destruição causada por garimpo ilegal, extração seletiva e monocultura da soja! —

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

Graças a um esforço do pessoal do ClimaInfo (as imagens são da lavra de Christian Braga) é possível ver os resultados de um sobrevoo realizado na bacia do Rio Tapajós, principalmente nos municípios paraenses de Itaituba, Santarém e Trairão, como … Continue reading →

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Pueblos Indígenas piden a la humanidad actuar con urgencia para salvar el Amazonas — Stigmatis

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

Amazonas | 2 Sep. 2022 Más de 500 pueblos indígenas de la cuenca amazónica claman desde Lima en un llamado de emergencia para que la humanidad sea consciente de la urgencia de actuar frente a las amenazas que […] Pueblos indígenas … Continue reading →

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Se i cercatori cercassero l’oro nel tuo giardino e contaminassero la tua unica fonte d’acqua con il mercurio, ti abbelliresti ancora con gioielli d’oro?

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

Dobbiamo ripensare il nostro rapporto con l’intero mondo vivente e non pensare più come consumatori in un’economia, ma riconoscere che siamo organismi in un ecosistema. I popoli Indigeni usano l’acqua di fiumi e torrenti nei loro territori ancestrali per bere, … Continue reading →

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Anglo-French oil firm threatens Amazon reserve for isolated Indigenous people! — Stigmatis

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

Perenco’s site in the Marañon basin and, right, an aerial shot of the Napo Tigre reserve showing signs of the presence of Indigenous people. Photograph: Orpio Perenco sues Peru government for repeal of law that offers recognition to proposed Napo-Tigre reserve … Continue reading →

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