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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.

L’ethnocide des peuples autochtones se produit en Amérique du Nord ET en Amérique du Sud MAINTENANT !

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

« Ils veulent que nous abandonnions une autre partie de notre terre tribale. Ce n’est pas la première fois ni la dernière fois. Ils revendiquent cette mère qui est la nôtre, la Terre, pour leur propre usage, et clôturent leurs voisins … Continue reading →

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Chuva de veneno se intensifica nos territórios do Cerrado —

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

Recorde na liberação de agrotóxicos nos últimos anos acompanha incidência de flexibilizações ambientais, escalada de conflitos no campo e afeta comunidades inteiras no Cerrado Por Amanda Costa, Andressa Zumpano e Bruno Santiago para o Le Monde Diplomatique A 890 quilômetros … Continue reading →

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Brazil deal thwarts net-zero goals and threatens to bring pesticide-filled produce to UK – Daily Express

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

Brazil deal thwarts net-zero goals and threatens to bring pesticide-filled produce to UK – Daily Express https://ift.tt/TvrUBGC Brazil deal thwarts net-zero goals and threatens to bring pesticide-filled produce to UK  Daily Express Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/g4185Bh Brazil deal thwarts … Continue reading →

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The Ethnocide of Indigenous Peoples is happening in South America AND in North America NOW!

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

« They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time. They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from … Continue reading →

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Ailton Krenak: próxima missão do capitalismo é se livrar de metade da população do planeta — Existe Guarani em São Paulo

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

Antes da pandemia, Ailton Krenak man­­tinha uma agen­da intensa. Es­critor finalista do Prêmio Jabuti com seu livro Ideias para Adiar o Fim do Mundo, também lançou A Vida Não É Útil e O Amanhã Não Está à Venda, todos pela Companhia das Letras. Por … Continue reading →

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Boycotts are a crucial weapon to fight environment-harming firms! — Palm Oil Detectives

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

Bill Laurance, James Cook University Campaigns and boycotts get the attention of large corporations, because they hit them where it hurts: their reputation and market share. Campaigns and #boycotts get the attention of large corporations, because they hit them where … Continue reading →

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Deforestazione e devastazione delle terre indigene in Amazzonia – Ecco cosa possiamo fare per aiutare ovunque ci troviamo nel mondo!

Posted on March 2, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Per molti anni noi, i leader e le popolazioni indigene dell’Amazzonia, abbiamo avvertito voi, nostri fratelli, che avete causato così tanti danni alle nostre foreste.Quello che fai cambierà il mondo intero e distruggerà la nostra casa, e distruggerà anche la … Continue reading →

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In Brazil, evicted Indigenous residents fight to reclaim their community — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Posted on March 2, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Source: In Brazil, evicted Indigenous residents fight to reclaim their community In Brazil, evicted Indigenous residents fight to reclaim their community — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

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Congresso brasileiro aprova polêmico “Pacote do Veneno” !

Posted on March 2, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Número recorde de agrotóxicos liberados ​​durante o mandato de Jair Bolsonaro. Substâncias cancerígenas permitidas. Autoridades sanitárias e ambientais desativadas Por Ulrike Bickel para o Amerika21 Brasília. A Câmara dos Deputados flexibilizou as condições para o uso de agrotóxicos no Brasil. Com 301 votos … Continue reading →

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Deforestación y devastación de tierras indígenas en la Amazonía – ¡Esto es lo que podemos hacer para ayudar en cualquier parte del mundo!

Posted on March 1, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Durante muchos años los líderes y pueblos indígenas de la Amazonía les hemos advertido a ustedes, nuestros hermanos, que tanto daño han causado a nuestros bosques.Lo que hagas cambiará el mundo entero y destruirá nuestro hogar, y también destruirá tu … Continue reading →

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