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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.

Brésil. 7 septembre : « Descendez dans la rue pour faire échec au golpisme » — Entre les lignes entre les mots — Tiny Life

Posted on September 7, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Editorial Esquerda Online Bolsonaro menace le peuple brésilien. Alors que la faim progresse, que l’inflation s’envole, que le chômage n’a jamais été aussi élevé et que le covid continue de faire des victimes, les partisans fanatiques de Bolsonaro sont convoqués pour … Continue reading →

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Indigenous Women, Original Women: « Reforesting Minds for the Healing of the Earth! »

Posted on September 6, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

September 7th to 11th, several thousand women from 150 indigenous nations will gather to march together in Brasilia in support of the rights they are guaranteed in the Constitution of Brazil and against the « Time Frame » limit and other anti-indigenous … Continue reading →

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Em artigo, Sonia Guajajara afirma que “nada justifica o olho gordo em nossas terras” —

Posted on September 6, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Não somos nós que podemos acabar com o agronegócio, mas ele mesmo Por Sonia Bone Guajajara, coordenadora executiva da Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (Apib)* Minha língua materna é a ze’egete, que significa “a fala boa”. Sou formada em Letras, … Continue reading →

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Bolsonaro amenaza a jueces de la Corte Suprema de Brasil dándoles un “ultimátum” — Unión Mundo — mimismo

Posted on September 6, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

El presidente caldea el ambiente antes del 7 de septiembre, cuando están convocadas protestas a su favor y en su contra. El presidente de Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro.Adriano Machado / Reuters El presidente de Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro, aseguró este viernes que las … Continue reading →

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Un simbolo ardente per la necropolitica di Bolsonaro! – Il « lasso di tempo » – Genocidio per le popolazioni indigene e ecocidio per la foresta pluviale amazzonica?

Posted on September 5, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Bolsonaro sta insinuando la sua illegalità se il « lasso di tempo » – una strategia per fissare una scadenza del 1988 per le rivendicazioni di terra indigena – viene respinto dalla Corte Suprema brasiliana! Un gruppo di circa 150 indigeni ha … Continue reading →

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“O Brasil não foi descoberto”, disse PGR Augusto Aras em fala contrária à tese do marco temporal no STF; julgamento será retomado na próxima quarta (8) — Saiba Mais

Posted on September 5, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

“O Brasil não foi descoberto e não tem 521 anos. Não se pode invisibilizar os nossos ancestrais que nos legaram esse país”, disse o procurador-geral da República Augusto Aras nesta quinta-feira, 2, no Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) em julgamento que … Continue reading →

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Jardim Botânico do Rio promove semana de atividades sobre o bioma Amazônia a partir deste domingo (5) —

Posted on September 5, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

O Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro dará início, neste domingo (5), Dia da Amazônia, à série de atividades temáticas sobre os seis biomas brasileiros – Caatinga, Mata Atlântica, Amazônia, Cerrado, Pantanal e Pampa -, além do Sistema Costeiro-marinho. A Amazônia, … Continue reading →

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¡Un símbolo ardiente de la necropolítica de Bolsonaro! – El “marco de tiempo” – ¿Genocidio para los pueblos indígenas y ecocidio para la selva amazónica?

Posted on September 4, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Bolsonaro insinúa su incumplimiento de la ley si la Corte Suprema de Brasil rechaza el « marco de tiempo », una estrategia para establecer una fecha límite de 1988 para las reclamaciones de tierras indígenas. Un grupo de alrededor de 150 indígenas … Continue reading →

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Reanudan el juicio sobre demarcación de tierras indígenas en Brasil — Unión Mundo — mimismo

Posted on September 4, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Representantes de pueblos originarios de Brasil se han sumado a los miles que ya se encuentran en las inmediaciones de la sede del Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) de Brasilia (capital), donde este jueves se votará y definirá el juicio sobre … Continue reading →

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STF retoma julgamento do “marco temporal” nesta quinta (2) e AGU defende tese ruralista — Saiba Mais

Posted on September 4, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Nesta quarta-feira, 1º, o Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) deu prosseguimento ao julgamento que decide sobre a tese conhecida como “marco temporal”, que incide sobre o processo de demarcação de terras indígenas pelo país. 553 more words STF retoma julgamento do “marco … Continue reading →

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