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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.

Advierten de un “alarmante” aumento de la minería en la Amazonía de Ecuador! — Stigmatis

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

Trabajadores en el interior de una mina en Río Blanco, provincia del Azuay (Ecuador). EFE/José Jácome/ARCHIVO Quito | 4 agosto 2022 El Proyecto de Monitoreo de la Amazonía Andina (MAAP) advirtió este miércoles un «alarmante» aumento de la actividad minera … Continue reading →

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What Happens If the World Gets Too Hot for Animals to Survive? — Mother Jones

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

This story was originally published by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Last month, during a slow-moving heat wave that smothered much of the United States, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment  … Continue reading →

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Deforestation versus Indigenous peoples – II « Ce que les Blancs appellent ‘la protection de la Nature’, c’est en fait nous, les gens de la forêt, ceux qui vivent sous le couvert de ses arbres depuis la nuit des temps »

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

« Nous avons de l’amitié pour la forêt parce que nous savons que les esprits de la forêt en sont les véritables propriétaires. Pourtant, la pensée des chercheurs d’or et des éleveurs de bétail est celle d’êtres malfaisants. Les Blancs ne … Continue reading →

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Our entire civilisation depends on animals. It’s time we recognised their true value! — Stigmatis

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

Most plants grown for food are dependent on pollination by wild insects, which also help to hold together complex ecosystems such as rainforests. Photograph: Chris Miller/Getty/EyeEm Tony Juniper | jun. 9 2022 We must restore our largely broken relationship with nature … Continue reading →

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Frente parlamentar defende projeto para rastrear comércio e transporte de ouro — Ecoamazônia

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

Objetivo da proposta é inibir o contrabando do minério, principalmente em terras indígenas A coordenadora da Frente Parlamentar Mista em Defesa dos Direitos dos Povos Indígenas, deputada Joenia Wapichana (Rede-RR), anunciou nesta quinta-feira (4) que protocolou na Câmara dos Deputados … Continue reading →

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Deforestation versus Indigenous peoples – Il « What the white people call ‘Nature’s protection’ is actually us, the forest people, those who have lived under the cover of its trees since the beginning of time »

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

« We have friendship for the forest because we know that the spirits of the forest are its true owners. Yet the gold prospectors’ and the cattle ranchers’ thought is that of evil beings. The white people only know how to … Continue reading →

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Apple, Google, Microsoft e Amazon usaram ouro ilegal de terras Indígenas brasileiras! — Ecoamazônia

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

Revelamos como o ouro ilegal sai da Amazônia e termina no seu celular ou computador. As 4 empresas mais valiosas do mundo foram o destino final do produto de duas refinadoras, a italiana Chimet e a brasileira Marsam, que têm … Continue reading →

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How a Global Fencing Boom Is Thwarting and Harming Wildlife! — Mother Jones

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

This story was originally published by Yale E360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The most famous fence in the United States is the expanded border wall pushed by former President Donald Trump. 1,777 more words How a Global Fencing … Continue reading →

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Deforestazione vs. Popoli Indigeni – I « Ho capito che la nostra terra poteva davvero essere distrutta dai bianchi… »

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

« Poi ho deciso di difenderlo e ho pensato, ‘Va bene! Ora che i bianchi hanno inventato il loro discorso sull’ecologia’, non devono accontentarsi di ripeterlo invano per farne nuove bugie. Hanno davvero bisogno di proteggere la foresta e tutti coloro … Continue reading →

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Roraima – Garimpo ilegal em terra Indígena — Ecoamazônia

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

Os principais sites e portais de notícias estão repercutindo, nas últimas horas, dados sobre pessoas envolvidas com o apoio a atividades ilegais de garimpo. Estão em andamento ações para o enfrentamento ao garimpo ilegal em terras indígenas como parte da … Continue reading →

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