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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.

A peste: pacote do veneno conduz o Brasil a importar até drogas que ninguém mais usa!

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

Não há nenhuma boa vontade na liderança do país em considerar a ideia da contenção da destruição do planeta Por Ariovaldo Ramos | para a RBA A Câmera dos Deputados aprovou o chamado “Pacote do Veneno”. Assim, conduz o Brasil a … Continue reading →

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‘Red alert’: Billions of UK pension money driving deforestation, says Richard Curtis – Sky News

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

‘Red alert’: Billions of UK pension money driving deforestation, says Richard Curtis – Sky News https://ift.tt/FIekcr6 ‘Red alert’: Billions of UK pension money driving deforestation, says Richard Curtis  Sky News Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/2ZwMaEd ‘Red alert’: Billions of UK … Continue reading →

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Desmatamento e devastação de terras indígenas na Amazônia – Veja o que podemos fazer para ajudar onde quer que estejamos no mundo!

Posted on February 28, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Por muitos anos nós, os líderes e os povos indígenas da Amazônia, alertamos vocês, nossos irmãos, que causaram tantos danos às nossas florestas.O que você fizer mudará o mundo inteiro e destruirá nossa casa – e também destruirá sua casa. … Continue reading →

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Jair Bolsonaro está desligando um dos melhores sistemas de monitoramento de desmatamento do mundo —

Posted on February 28, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Fumaça sobe de um incêndio ilegal na reserva da floresta amazônica, ao norte de Sinop, no estado de Mato Grosso, Brasil, em 11 de agosto de 2020. (Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images) Por Mac Margolis, colunista colaborador de Opiniões Globais do … Continue reading →

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Bank drops loan to Marfrig | MEAT+POULTRY —

Posted on February 28, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Bank drops loan to Marfrig | MEAT+POULTRY – MEAT+POULTRY https://ift.tt/1kRIGzh Bank drops loan to Marfrig | MEAT+POULTRY  MEAT+POULTRY Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/neYUxNz Bank drops loan to Marfrig | MEAT+POULTRY – MEAT+POULTRY —

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Déforestation et dévastation des terres indigènes en Amazonie – Voici ce que nous pouvons faire pour aider où que nous soyons dans le monde !

Posted on February 27, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Pendant de nombreuses années, nous, les dirigeants et les peuples autochtones d’Amazonie, vous avons mis en garde, vous, nos frères, qui avez causé tant de dégâts à nos forêts.Ce que vous faites changera le monde entier et détruira notre maison … Continue reading →

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Organized Crime Destroys Latin American Forests – Dialogo-Americas.com

Posted on February 27, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Organized Crime Destroys Latin American Forests – Dialogo-Americas.com https://ift.tt/Gnhesil Organized Crime Destroys Latin American Forests  Dialogo-Americas.com Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/YgZ9dky Organized Crime Destroys Latin American Forests – Dialogo-Americas.com —

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Vai ter guerra na Amazônia —

Posted on February 27, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Queimada em Novo Progresso no “Dia do Fogo” Por Cláudio Ângelo* No fim do ano passado tive o privilégio duvidoso de passar quase 20 dias viajando pela Amazônia. Desci a BR-163 de Santarém até Castelo dos Sonhos, no Pará, e … Continue reading →

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Deforestation and devastation of Indigenous lands in the Amazon – Here’s what we can do to help wherever we are in the world!

Posted on February 26, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« For many years we, the Indigenous leaders and peoples of the Amazon, have been warning you, our brothers who have brought so much damage to our forests.What you are doing will change the whole world and will destroy our home – … Continue reading →

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Deforestation threat to Amazon indigenous areas if protected status changed – report – Yahoo News Canada

Posted on February 26, 2022 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Deforestation threat to Amazon indigenous areas if protected status changed – report – Yahoo News Canada https://ift.tt/NFx2qMZ Deforestation threat to Amazon indigenous areas if protected status changed – report  Yahoo News Canada Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/mFlET58 Deforestation threat to … Continue reading →

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