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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.

Emergência Indígena: Criminalização de lideranças indígenas! — Existe Guarani em São Paulo

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

A Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil abre um chamado de DENÚNCIAS no nosso Observatório de Justiça Criminal e Povos Indígenas. Erick – Mídia Índia News. jan 12, 2022 O objetivo é desenvolver estratégias eficientes de responder, denunciar e prevenir a criminalização … Continue reading →

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« Nous le savons – La Terre n’appartient pas à l’homme, l’homme appartient à la Terre. L’homme n’a pas tissé la toile de la vie, il n’en est qu’un fil. Quoi qu’il fasse à la toile de la vie, il le fait à lui-même. » 

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

« Enseignez-vous à vos enfants ce que nous avons enseigné à nos enfants ? Que la Terre est notre mère ? Ce qui arrive à la Terre arrive à tous les fils de la Terre. Nous le savons, la Terre n’appartient pas … Continue reading →

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O papel fundamental das terras Indígenas na proteção das florestas brasileiras!

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

Aldeia Yanomami do Marari e ao fundo a Serra Aramamisi. 1. As terras indígenas ocupam 13,9% do território brasileiro e contêm 109,7 milhões de hectares de vegetação nativa, que correspondem a 19,5% da vegetação nativa no Brasil em 2020.   … Continue reading →

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Top Scientist: We Can’t Adapt Our Way Out of This Climate Crisis — Mother Jones

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

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The world cannot adapt its way out of the climate crisis, and counting on adaptation to limit damage is no substitute for urgently cutting … Continue reading →

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« This we know – the Earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the Earth. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. »

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

 « Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the Earth is our mother? What befalls the Earth befalls all the sons of the Earth. This we know – the Earth does not belong to man, man … Continue reading →

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Apocalipse Now? Os efeitos alarmantes da crise alimentar global!

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

O governador do Banco da Inglaterra alertou na semana passada sobre aumentos ‘apocalípticos’ dos preços dos alimentos. No entanto, a guerra na Ucrânia, as mudanças climáticas e a inflação já estão cobrando seu preço em todo o mundo Por Simon … Continue reading →

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Time to Start Reducing Consumption! — harben post

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

For possibly a million or more years humans have used fire from fossil fuels. It was not until the last two hundred years that fossil fuels have becoms a problem. We have to reduce our use. We could go back … Continue reading →

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Tutta quella foresta pluviale perduta, tutto quel mercurio che filtra nei sistemi idrici, avvelenando gli indigeni e la fauna selvatica. Solo per un po’ d’oro!Il prezzo di quest’oro è troppo alto… Non possiamo permettercelo!

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

« Non capisci perché vogliamo proteggere la nostra foresta? Chiedimi, ti rispondo! I nostri antenati furono creati con lui all’inizio dei tempi. Da allora, la nostra gente ha mangiato la sua selvaggina ei suoi frutti. Vogliamo che i nostri figli … Continue reading →

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Four disadvantaged communities from COP26: Scientists, Indigenous peoples, Women and Future generations — Sustain

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

Scientists, indigenous peoples, women and future generations are the four disadvantaged communities that came out as a result from COP26. What do they do in COP27 in Egypt in November 2022? Enjoy! Four disadvantaged communities from COP26: Scientists, Indigenous peoples, Women … Continue reading →

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Articulação Agro é Fogo realiza Audiência Pública para denunciar a devastação dos incêndios no Cerrado, Amazônia e Pantanal —

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

Lutar pelo futuro passa por barrar o avanço dos incêndios e toda a devastação do agronegócio que atinge, principalmente, os povos e comunidades tradicionais. Essa pauta será debatida durante a Audiência Pública da Articulação Agro é Fogo e da Comissão … Continue reading →

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