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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.

UFRR aprova título Doutor Honoris Causa para liderança Indígena — Ecoamazônia

Posted on August 25, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

O líder xamã indígena Davi Kopenawa, da etnia Yanomami, recebeu na última sexta-feira, 5, a aprovação do Conselho Universitário da Universidade Federal de Roraima (CUNI/UFRR) para ser agraciado com a máxima distinção acadêmica concedida pela instituição, o título de Doutor Honoris … Continue reading →

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Deforestación versus pueblos indígenas – V « Cuando talas árboles, atacas los espíritus de nuestros antepasados. Cuando excavas en busca de minerales, atraviesas el núcleo de la Tierra. »

Posted on August 24, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Cuando cortas los árboles, atacas a los espíritus de nuestros antepasados. Cuando excavas en busca de minerales, atraviesas el núcleo de la Tierra. Y cuando viertes venenos en la tierra y en los ríos, químicos de la agricultura y mercurio … Continue reading →

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Why Canada will Never have a Truthful Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. — Lara Trace Hentz

Posted on August 24, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Originally posted on Aakdewin: Let’s be real. Canada will never have a truthful inquiry into missing and murdered women.  I really think we should save our breath and stop asking.  However, that doesn’t mean that I think that we should … Continue reading →

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Amazônia e Pampa lideram queimadas de janeiro a julho de 2022! —

Posted on August 24, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Dados do Monitor do Fogo do MapBiomas mostram que queimadas cresceram 7% na Amazônia e 3.372% no Pampa nos sete primeiros meses do ano O Brasil queima no Norte e no Sul de seu território. Dados do MapBiomas mostram que … Continue reading →

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Desmatamento versus povos indígenas – V  «Quando você derruba árvores, você ataca os espíritos de nossos ancestrais. Quando você cava em busca de minerais, você empala o núcleo da Terra.»

Posted on August 23, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Quando você corta as árvores, você ataca os espíritos de nossos ancestrais. Quando você cava em busca de minerais, você empala o núcleo da Terra. E quando você despeja venenos na terra e nos rios – produtos químicos da agricultura … Continue reading →

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Genocide of the American “Indians” was the worst ethnic cleansing in history! — Lara Trace Hentz

Posted on August 23, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

By John Robles Dec 25, 2012 14:15 Moscow Time Download In the third and final part of an interview with Indian Historian and Mik’maq elder Dr. Daniel Paul, the discussion continues regarding the genocide of the American indigenous peoples. Dr. … Continue reading →

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Desmatamento está transformando tornando a Amazônia mais seca, mostra estudo inédito…

Posted on August 23, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

O aquecimento global está secando as florestas tropicais. Ciclo de água interrompido aumenta os danos, especialmente nas áreas de borda Em breve menos nuvens de chuva sobre a floresta amazônica? Foto: Universidade de Leeds/Jessica Baker Por Norbert Suchanek para o “Neues Deutschland” … Continue reading →

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Déforestation versus peuples autochtones – V « Lorsque vous coupez les arbres, vous agressez les esprits de nos ancêtres. Lorsque vous creusez pour trouver des minéraux, vous empalez le cœur de la Terre. »

Posted on August 22, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Lorsque vous coupez les arbres, vous agressez les esprits de nos ancêtres. Lorsque vous creusez pour trouver des minéraux, vous empalez le cœur de la Terre. Et quand vous déversez des poisons sur la terre et dans les rivières … Continue reading →

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Of the Far West; gold fever, the ‘Good Cowboys’… And the ‘Bad Indians’ — HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

Posted on August 22, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Human Wrongs Watch By Baher Kamal MADRID, Aug 8 2022 (IPS)* – Nothing –or too little– has changed since Hollywood started producing its spectacular western movies. Rough men, ranchers, mercenary killers, saloons, cowboys, guns, gold fever, the ‘good sheriff’… and … Continue reading →

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Greenpeace Brasil sobrevoa a Amazônia e flagra o avanço do fogo sobre a floresta!

Posted on August 22, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Somente no mês de julho foram 5.373 focos de calor e no ano já são mais de 12.906 Candeias do Jamari, Rondônia. O Greenpeace realizou sobrevoos no sul do Amazonas e no norte de Rondônia para monitorar desmatamento e queimadas … Continue reading →

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