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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.

Brazil accused of backsliding in updated climate pledge to the UN – Climate Home

Posted on April 17, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Brazil accused of backsliding in updated climate pledge to the UN – Climate Home https://ift.tt/LC18EWS Brazil accused of backsliding in updated climate pledge to the UN  Climate Home Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/Xpw4ROl Brazil accused of backsliding in updated climate … Continue reading →

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« O ataque aos povos da Terra Indígena Yanomami já ocorreu na década de 1980, com a invasão de mais de 40 mil garimpeiros. Hoje, em 2022, a história está se repetindo. » 

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

« A realidade em que vivemos e suas consequências são de violência e vulnerabilidade. Meu povo está sofrendo. Pedimos o apoio da população mundial para se juntar ao nosso pedido de ajuda para a retirada imediata dos garimpeiros de nosso território! … Continue reading →

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Malaria surges in the Amazon as wildcat mining devours Indigenous land! – The Japan Times

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

Malaria surges in the Amazon as wildcat mining devours Indigenous land – The Japan Times https://ift.tt/fVurjAW Malaria surges in the Amazon as wildcat mining devours Indigenous land  The Japan Times Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/yB32D45 Malaria surges in the Amazon … Continue reading →

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Acampamento Terra Livre reuniu mais de sete mil indígenas em Brasília! — Ecoamazônia

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

Depois de dez dias reunidos em Brasília, os indígenas que participaram do Acampamento Terra Livre já começaram a desmontar acampamento para retornar às suas terras. Na manhã desta quinta-feira, foi realizada a cerimônia de encerramento do evento – que, segundo os organizadores, reuniu … Continue reading →

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« L’attaque contre les peuples de la Terre Indigène Yanomami a déjà eu lieu dans les années 1980, avec l’invasion de plus de 40 000 chercheurs d’or. Aujourd’hui, en 2022, l’histoire se répète. » 

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

« La réalité que nous vivons et ses conséquences en sont une de violence et de vulnérabilité. Mon peuple souffre. Nous demandons le soutien de la population mondiale pour se joindre à notre appel à l’aide pour le retrait immédiat d’orpailleurs … Continue reading →

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Em defesa de seus territórios, indígenas se posicionam contra Jair Bolsonaro!

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

Milhares  de indígenas montaram acampamentos para protestar em Brasília.  O governo Bolsonaro quer permitir exploração de reservas por atividades de mineração Resolutamente contra o governo Bolsonaro: indígenas se manifestam em Brasília   Por Norbert Suchanek para o JungeWelt Por ocasião das … Continue reading →

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Thousands of Indigenous People call for an end to Amazon destruction and violence! – Greenpeace International

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

Thousands of Indigenous People call for an end to Amazon destruction and violence – Greenpeace International https://ift.tt/ohClq9z Thousands of Indigenous People call for an end to Amazon destruction and violence  Greenpeace International Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/Xpw4ROl Thousands of Indigenous … Continue reading →

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« The attack on the peoples of the Yanomami Indigenous Land already took place in the 1980s, with the invasion of more than 40,000 gold miners. Today, in 2022, history repeats itself. » 

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

« The reality we are living and its consequences is one of violence and vulnerability. My people are suffering. We ask for the support of the global population to join our cry for help for the immediate withdrawal of the … Continue reading →

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We Neglect Nature’s Sonic Diversity at Our Peril — Mother Jones

Posted on April 14, 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. Sound is made of the most ephemeral stuff on Earth, insubstantial tremors of air. Yet sound is also the great connector and revealer. Because … Continue reading →

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Lideranças indígenas reproduzem destruição do garimpo na capital brasileira!

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

5 mil indígenas de diversos povos marcharam pelo fim do PL da mineração e a expulsão de garimpeiros de suas terras Participantes do Acampamento Terra Livre participam da “Marcha contra o garimpo que mata e desmata” – Foto: Tuane Fernandes / … Continue reading →

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