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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.

Movimiento indígena en Brasil continúa la lucha por el territorio — Unión Mundo — mimismo

Posted on August 28, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

“No al marco temporal”, “Nuestra historia no empieza en 1988″… son frases habituales en las pancartas que ondean en las manifestaciones de los indígenas brasileños. Detrás de ellas hay una votación clave, que arranca mañana en el Tribunal Supremo Federal … Continue reading →

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 NO to the « Time Limit Trick » – An aberration!

Posted on August 27, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« ‘Time frame’ is a path of the enemies of the forest against my people. ‘Time frame’ for me means stealing more Yanomami land. Stealing more from our lands that have already been demarcated, ratified and registered by the Brazilian government. »  … Continue reading →

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Lideranças indígenas, antropólogos, advogados e representantes da Justiça ressaltam a importância do julgamento do marco temporal em evento —

Posted on August 27, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

O debate virtual, organizado pelo CNJ (Conselho Nacional de Justiça) com apoio da Comissão Arns, contou com personalidades como Joênia Wapichana, Sônia Guajajara e os caciques Davi Kopenawa e Raoni Metuktire, na noite de segunda-feira (23); O “II Encontro Virtual … Continue reading →

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Brazil: Reject Anti-Indigenous Rights Bill! – Human Rights Watch

Posted on August 27, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Brazil: Reject Anti-Indigenous Rights Bill – Human Rights Watch https://ift.tt/3mtFTMq Brazil: Reject Anti-Indigenous Rights Bill  Human Rights Watch Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/2tI2HiE Brazil: Reject Anti-Indigenous Rights Bill – Human Rights Watch —

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Un appello per la natura e i popoli indigeni! No alla Legge #490! …e un messaggio di uno sciamano Yanomami… aggiornato

Posted on August 26, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Ho pensato che se i bianchi avessero potuto sentirmi, avrebbero convinto il governo a non lasciare che la foresta venisse distrutta … Ora, i cercatori d’oro puzzano della foresta con i fumi dei loro motori e i fumi dell’oro e … Continue reading →

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Somos todos Xokleng pelo meio ambiente e contra o “marco temporal” —

Posted on August 26, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Por Joenia Wapichana, deputada federal (Rede/RR), nascida na Raposa Serra do Sol, Sonia Bone Guajajara, coordenadora executiva da Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (Apib) e Ana Patté, integrante da Apib e do povo Xokleng O Supremo Tribunal Federal pode … Continue reading →

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Brazil indigenous protesters camp on Bolsonaro’s doorstep – FRANCE 24 —

Posted on August 26, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Brazil indigenous protesters camp on Bolsonaro’s doorstep – FRANCE 24 https://ift.tt/3AXR18u Brazil indigenous protesters camp on Bolsonaro’s doorstep  FRANCE 24 Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/2tI2HiE Brazil indigenous protesters camp on Bolsonaro’s doorstep – FRANCE 24 —

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¡Abogacía por la naturaleza y los pueblos indígenas! ¡No al proyecto de ley 490! … y un mensaje de un chamán Yanomami … actualizado

Posted on August 25, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Pensé que si los blancos podían oírme, convencerían al gobierno de que no dejara que se destruyera el bosque… Ahora, los mineros de oro apestan a bosque con los humos de sus motores y los humos del oro y … Continue reading →

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Comissão debate legalização de garimpos na região do Tapajós — Ecoamazônia

Posted on August 25, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

A Comissão de Minas e Energia da Câmara dos Deputados discute, nesta terça-feira (24), o  processo de legalização da mineração na região do Tapajós, no Pará. O deputado Joaquim Passarinho (PSD-PA), que propôs a realização da audiência, afirma que a … Continue reading →

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Indigenous tribes accuse President Bolsonaro of genocide at The Hague – Euronews — — Tiny Life

Posted on August 25, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Indigenous tribes accuse President Bolsonaro of genocide at The Hague – Euronews https://ift.tt/3jMIa2j Indigenous tribes accuse President Bolsonaro of genocide at The Hague  Euronews Superforest via « deforestation » – Google News https://ift.tt/2tI2HiE Indigenous tribes accuse President Bolsonaro of genocide at The Hague – … Continue reading →

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