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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.

Um apelo à natureza e dos povos indígenas! Não ao Projeto de Lei #490! … e uma mensagem de um xamã Yanomami … – atualizado

Posted on August 24, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Achei que se os brancos pudessem me ouvir, eles convenceriam o governo a não deixar a floresta ser destruída … Agora, os garimpeiros infestam a floresta com a fumaça de seus motores e a fumaça do ouro e do mercúrio … Continue reading →

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ONG Kapé Kapé denuncia la esclavización de indígenas sanemá en Amazonas por parte de garimpeiros — Crónica Uno

Posted on August 24, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Más de 400 garimpeiros mantienen sometidos a indígenas sanemá en Amazonas, según reportes hechos desde hace tres años. Sumado a esto la etnia afronta enfermedades por malaria, desnutrición, tuberculosis y contaminación con mercurio dada la minería ilegal en la zona. … Continue reading →

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‘Projeto de mineração de Bolsonaro vai virar uma confusão’, diz memória-viva do garimpo no Brasil — Ecoamazônia

Posted on August 24, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

O minerador José Altino Machado, que está há 54 dos seus 79 anos na atividade da mineração, conta com exclusividade sobre as invasões à Terra Indígena Yanomami, em Roraima. 44 more words ‘Projeto de mineração de Bolsonaro vai virar uma confusão’, … Continue reading →

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Plaidoyer pour la nature et les peuples autochtones ! Non au projet de loi #490 ! …et un message d’un chaman Yanomami… – actualisé

Posted on August 23, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Je pensais que si les blancs pouvaient m’entendre, ils convaincraient le gouvernement de ne pas laisser la forêt être détruite… Maintenant, les mineurs d’or puent la forêt avec les fumées de leurs moteurs et les vapeurs de l’or et … Continue reading →

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L’APIB dénonce Bolsonaro devant la CPI, à La Haye, pour génocide autochtone — Entre les lignes entre les mots — Tiny Life

Posted on August 23, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

L’Articulation des peuples autochtones du Brésil (Apib) a déposé, ce lundi (9), une déclaration devant la Cour pénale internationale (CPI) pour dénoncer le gouvernement de Bolsonaro pour génocide. En cette date qui marque la Journée internationale des peuples autochtones, l’organisation demande au procureur … Continue reading →

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Gardiens pour sauver ce qui reste de la forêt amazonienne — DR livres et publications

Posted on August 23, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Qui sont réellement les Amérindiens qui habitent les forêts et les savanes d’Amazonie ? Que connaît-on de leur Histoire, de leurs anciennes traditions, de l’extrême diversité linguistique et culturelle de leurs tribus ? Un univers particulier et mystérieux qui se … Continue reading →

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A Plea for Nature and Indigenous Peoples! NO to Bill #PL490! – and a message from a Yanomami shaman – Updated

Posted on August 22, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« I thought that if the white people could hear me, they would convince the government to not let the forest be destroyed… Now the gold miners stink up the forest with the fumes from their motors and the vapors from … Continue reading →

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SALSA Statement Against Brazil’s Proposed Law #490/2007 (6-27-21) — Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Posted on August 22, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

SALSA Statement Condemning Brazil’s Proposed Law #490/2007 27 June 2021 Strongly supported by the agro-industrial sector, Law #490/2007 provides for several changes in the territorial rights of Indigenous Peoples as guaranteed by Brazil’s Constitution. 48 more words SALSA Statement Against Brazil’s … Continue reading →

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O OURO nada mais é do que pó brilhante na lama, mas os brancos podem matar por isso! — CURIOSIDADES NA INTERNET

Posted on August 22, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

foto: Yanomami: transformação xamânica– Barbara Crane NavarroComo afirma o porta-voz Yanomami Davi Kopenawa em seu livro “A Queda do Céu”: “Os brancos espalham seus fumos epidêmicos pela floresta … tirando ouro e outros minerais da terra. Eles não querem desistir … Continue reading →

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Post #308: Game of Thieves in the Amazon — In the Human Interest – Mel Gurtov

Posted on August 21, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Here is the audio version (broadcast August 17, 2021): The UN-appointed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a new report, based on the latest scientific findings, that once again warns that we are at the point of no … Continue reading →

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