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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.

“All the Living World is Interdependent:” A Q&A with Artist Barbara Crane Navarro — Open Americas

Barbara Crane Navarro is a French artist, author, and activist who currently lives near Paris. Over a period of 12 years, she spent the winter months with the Yanomami people in Venezuela and Brazil, an experience which has inspired her … Continue reading →

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A bounty on the earth’s head — Stabroek News

A bounty on the earth’s head – Stabroek News https://ift.tt/3jUofzK A bounty on the earth’s head  Stabroek News Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/2tI2HiE A bounty on the earth’s head – Stabroek News —

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

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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Todos los vivos son interdependientes: una entrevista con la artista Barbara Crane Navarro — Open Americas

Barbara Crane Navarro es una artista, autora y activista francesa que actualmente vive cerca de París. Durante 12 años, pasó los meses de invierno con el pueblo Yanomami en Venezuela y Brasil, una experiencia que inspiró su práctica artística y … Continue reading →

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Amazon tribe suffers mercury contamination as illegal gold mining spreads! — The Irish Times — Tiny Life – Please Boycott Gold!

Amazon tribe suffers mercury contamination as illegal gold mining spreads – The Irish Times https://ift.tt/3z1MjXA Amazon tribe suffers mercury contamination as illegal gold mining spreads  The Irish Times Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/2tI2HiE Amazon tribe suffers mercury contamination as illegal … Continue reading →

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Contextualizing settler colonialism in the Brazilian Amazon — Marcelo S.R. Silva

To unlock positive changes in our societies we might need to talk about uncomfortable topics. In December 2011, my wife and I drove from Brasília to Cuiabá (Brazil). When we were at some point in the state of Mato Grosso, … Continue reading →

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Tout le monde vivant est interdépendant: une question & réponse avec l’artiste Barbara Crane Navarro — Open Americas

Barbara Crane Navarro est une artiste, auteur et activiste française qui vit actuellement près de Paris. Pendant 12 ans, elle a passé les mois d’hiver avec le peuple Yanomami au Venezuela et au Brésil, une expérience qui a inspiré sa … Continue reading →

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La Amazonía, castigada y al borde del abismo! — Stigmatis

Vista aérea mostrando el humo generado por una quema ilegal en la Amazonía en la región de Labrea, estado brasileño de Amazonas, el 15 de septiembre de 2021 Los científicos afirman que es imposible predecir qué tan cerca está la … Continue reading →

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Across Latin America, Mennonites seek out isolation at the expense of forests — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Low German Old Colony Mennonites, who have been settling across Latin America for the past 100 years, have cleared 495 hectares (1,223 acres) of rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon so far this year. The illegal deforestation documented by the Monitoring of the … Continue reading →

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France: “Rainforest Art Project” – Supporting Indigenous Peoples! — World Animals Voice

I have taken this directly from the site run by one of our supporter friends Barbara. Please have a look at it when you can.  You know we are primarily an animal rights group; but when we feel it is … Continue reading →

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