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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.

MPF e PF deflagram Operação Via Áurea contra organização que comercializa ouro extraído de garimpos ilegais — Ecoamazônia

Posted on June 16, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

O Ministério Público Federal (MPF) e a Polícia Federal (PF) deflagraram, na manhã desta terça-feira (14), a Operação Via Áurea, com o objetivo de desarticular uma organização criminosa formada por pessoas e grupo de empresas, todos envolvidos na compra de … Continue reading →

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The Amazon Rainforest and Indigenous Forest Peoples in Peril! –  a series of short films by Barbara Crane Navarro – 2 – « The Fire Sculpture » 2:26

Posted on June 15, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« The Fire Sculpture » alternates scenes of the « Fire Performance » burning of one of my totemic sculptures at Le Chaufferie in St. Maurice, France, with scenes of Yanomami daily life in their forest and village and the « Fire Performance » burning of … Continue reading →

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Barbara Crane Navarro : « L’objectif de mes films, projets d’installation et livres pour enfants est d’attirer l’attention sur la forêt tropicale et les questions autochtones » — Causes perdues — Transformations

Posted on June 15, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Dès 1978, Barbara Crane Navarro vit à Paris et exerce ses talents d’artiste-peintre. Depuis plusieurs décennies, elle crée des œuvres « inspirées par le temps passé avec les communautés Yanomami au Venezuela et au Brésil pendant les mois d’hiver ». … Continue reading →

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MPF denuncia organização criminosa que comercializava ouro extraído de garimpos ilegais na Amazônia e exportado para a Itália! — Ecoamazônia

Posted on June 15, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Só em 2019, mais de 1,5 tonelada de ouro ilegal foi comercializada pela organização criminosa! O Ministério Público Federal (MPF) denunciou 13 pessoas envolvidas na comercialização de ouro extraído ilegalmente de garimpos na Amazônia e exportado para a Itália. 38 … Continue reading →

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The Amazon Rainforest and Indigenous Forest Peoples in Peril! – a series of short films by Barbara Crane Navarro – 1 – « The Way of the Shaman » 2:40

Posted on June 14, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« The Way of the Shaman » alternates scenes from an art installation of my paintings and totemic sculptures at the Eyedrum Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, with scenes of Yanomami shamanic initiation and daily life in the forest and the village. … Continue reading →

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Barbara Crane Navarro: Artist & Activist In Her Own Words — Palm Oil Detectives

Posted on June 14, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Barbara Crane Navarro: In Her Own Words Artist, Writer, Environmental & Indigenous Rights Activist Bio: Barbara Crane Navarro Barbara Crane Navarro is a French artist, writer, Indigenous and animal activist who lives near Paris. From 1968 to 1973 she studied … Continue reading →

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Terra indígena com isolados no Amazonas está há quase 6 meses desprotegida! — O Juruá Em Tempo

Posted on June 14, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

FOLHAPRESS) – Com presença de grupos indígenas isolados confirmada pela Funai (Fundação Nacional do Índio), a Terra Indígena Jacareúba-Katawixi, no sul do Amazonas, está há quase seis meses sem a renovação da portaria de restrição de uso, mecanismo administrativo necessário … Continue reading →

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Il « Lasso di Tempo » – Genocidio per le popolazioni Indigene e ecocidio per la foresta pluviale amazzonica?

Posted on June 13, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Ancora una volta, la Corte Suprema del Brasile ha rinviato a tempo indeterminato il processo in cui i giudici decideranno se il termine per la demarcazione delle terre Indigene ancestrali sarà fissato alla data di entrata in vigore della Costituzione … Continue reading →

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Produção agrícola para alimentar pessoas, não porcos e carros!

Posted on June 13, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

O lobby agrícola na UE está exacerbando a crise alimentar global, os grãos não deveriam alimentar principalmente animais e tanques de carros Greenpeace protesta em frente ao Ministério Federal dos Transportes contra o uso de grãos para o chamado biocombustível. Foto: … Continue reading →

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Towards deforestation-free commodities and products in the EU [EU Legislation in Progress] — Epthinktank — Just Sara

Posted on June 13, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Written by Vivienne Halleux (1st edition). On 17 November 2021, the European Commission tabled a legislative proposal aimed at curbing deforestation and forest degradation driven by the expansion of agricultural land used to produce specific commodities, namely cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm … Continue reading →

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