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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.

Após recorde de alertas em junho, DETER confirma o pior 1° semestre da série histórica na Amazônia! —

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

Somente em junho foram 1120 Km2 com alertas de desmatamento. No acumulado de 2022, a área com alertas já é 10,6 % superior a do mesmo período de 2021 Desmatamento de Floresta Pública Não Destinada em Lábrea (AM) – Foto: Christian Braga … Continue reading →

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Si los buscadores de oro estuvieran buscando oro en su patio trasero y contaminaran su única fuente de agua con mercurio, ¿todavía se adornaría con joyas de oro?

Posted on September 3, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Necesitamos repensar nuestra relación con todo el mundo vivo y no pensar más como consumidores en una economía, sino reconocer que somos organismos en un ecosistema. Los pueblos indígenas utilizan el agua de los ríos y arroyos en sus territorios … Continue reading →

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Garimpo ilegal e o avanço da prática na Terra Indígena Kayapó — Ecoamazônia

Posted on September 3, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Pesquisa documental e histórica analisa os impactos da atividade garimpeira nesta Terra Indígena localizada no sudeste do Pará, e que já tem 7.602 hectares de área minerada. 42 more words Garimpo ilegal e o avanço da prática na Terra Indígena Kayapó … Continue reading →

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What Climate Organizers Can Learn From Two Centuries of Indigenous Resistance | in-digit-ous | Why ICWA still matters | poets I love — Lara Trace Hentz

Posted on September 3, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Q: Could you explain what you mean by the title phrase of your book, “our history is the future”? I look at the Ghost Dance prophecy, which was an anticolonial uprising among particularly Lakota and Dakota people on the northern … Continue reading →

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Se garimpeiros estivessem garimpando ouro em seu quintal e contaminando sua única fonte de água com mercúrio, você ainda se decoraria com joias de ouro?

Posted on September 2, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Precisamos repensar nossa relação com todo o mundo vivo e não mais pensar como consumidores em uma economia, mas reconhecer que somos organismos em um ecossistema. Os povos indígenas utilizam a água dos rios e córregos em seus territórios ancestrais … Continue reading →

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A los bosques les cuesta cada vez más recuperarse de los desastres — Stigmatis

Posted on September 2, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

A medida que el mundo se va calentando, los bosques son cada vez menos resilientes frente a los incendios, sequías y otras perturbaciones. on el calentamiento del planeta, los bosques de todo el mundo son cada vez menos resilientes y … Continue reading →

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“I Am Not a Leader”: Russell Means’ 1980 Mother Jones Cover Story — Lara Trace Hentz

Posted on September 2, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

In a provocative piece, the American Indian Movement activist lashed out at European “death culture” and the left. —By Russell Means (Oct. 22, 2012) Editor’s note: This article originated as a controversial speech given at the Black Hills International Survival … Continue reading →

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Question cadeau de Noël ? – Si des prospecteurs cherchaient de l’or dans votre arrière-cour et contaminaient votre seule source d’eau avec du mercure, vous décoreriez-vous toujours avec des bijoux en or ?

Posted on September 1, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Nous devons repenser notre relation avec l’ensemble du monde vivant et ne plus penser comme des consommateurs dans une économie mais reconnaître que nous sommes des organismes dans un écosystème. Les peuples autochtones utilisent l’eau des rivières et des ruisseaux … Continue reading →

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Sem a Amazônia o mundo não vai conseguir se manter como conhecemos!

Posted on September 1, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Em evento para discutir dilemas amazônicos e metas climáticas, cientistas e ativistas alertam para a essencialidade de se preservar a maior floresta tropical do mundo A preservação da Amazônia é fundamental para qualquer política ou iniciativa de combate às mudanças … Continue reading →

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Peltier after 40 years (NOW: 45 years in prison!) — Lara Trace Hentz

Posted on September 1, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Local Event: On Friday, February 5th, in unison with the International Days of Solidarity with Leonard Peltier, on the 40th anniversary of his imprisonment for his role as an American Indian Movement organizer in the aftermath of the occupation of … Continue reading →

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