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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.

Maned Three-toed Sloth Bradypus torquatus — Palm Oil Detectives

The extremely rare Pernambuco Pygmy-owl is critically endangered on the @IUCNredlist due to massive logging and deforestation for #palmoil #beef farming in #Brazil support this animal’s survival by making art and joining the #boycott4wildlife Maned Three-toed Sloth Bradypus torquatus — Palm … Continue reading →

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Since we Say The Children are our Future We Should be telling them How to Treat the Environment in a Sustainable Way

FunWritings The children are our future that is what we say But what will our future look like if we teach them how to treat the environment in a bad way If they learn all the old bad habits we … Continue reading →

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Une fable avec un message – “La Magie de l’Amazonie Les aventures de Namowë, un garçon Yanomami”

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https://barbara-navarro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/bbb-2-nam-book-2.jpg illustration tirée de “La Magie de l’Amazonie- Les aventures de Namowë, un garçon Yanomami” “La Magie de l’Amazonie” nous fait pénétrer dans un monde qui pourrait sembler fantastique, où les êtres humains, les…

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Pied Tamarin Saguinus bicolor — Palm Oil Detectives

The enigmatic blue-billed curassow (Crax alberti – local name “Paujil”), endemic to the tropical humid forests of northern Colombia, is the cracid species most threatened with extinction in the wild from #deforestation Pied Tamarin Saguinus bicolor — Palm Oil Detectives

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Watch “The Queen of Trees – OFFICIAL” on YouTube — Kindness – Wisdom💥

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A Fable with a Message – “Amazon Rainforest Magic The adventures of Namowë, a Yanomami boy”

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https://barbara-navarro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/bbb-1-nam-book.jpg illustration from “Amazon Rainforest Magic – The adventures of Namowë, a Yanomami boy”  “Amazon Rainforest Magic” presents a world that at first might seem whimsical, where people, animals, and plants joke, conspire, and…

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Blue-billed Curassow Crax alberti — Palm Oil Detectives

The enigmatic blue-billed curassow (Crax alberti – local name “Paujil”), endemic to the tropical humid forests of northern Colombia, is the cracid species most threatened with extinction in the wild from #deforestation Blue-billed Curassow Crax alberti — Palm Oil Detectives

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A Common Thirst by Gary Boelhower — Children’s Books Heal

Gary Boelhower, Author Sarah Brokke, Illustrator Beaver Pond Press, Fiction, Oct. 27, 2020 Suitable for ages: 4-9 Themes: Goats, Sheep, Abundance, Drought, Sharing, Compassion  Opening: “Not far from here, the land was divided into towering mountains and level plains.” Publisher’s … Continue reading →

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Un cuento de iniciación – “La Magia de la Amazonia Las aventuras de Namowë, un niño Yanomami” — Barbara Crane Navarro — Tiny Life

ilustración de “La Magia de la Amazonia” – Las aventuras de Namowë, un niño Yanomami “ Desde sus primeras páginas, La Magie de l’Amazonie, este libro encantador para niños describe un mundo casi inimaginable en el siglo XXI. Un mundo … Continue reading →

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BIODIVERSITY — EDUINDEX NEWS — Tiny Life

The different types of organisms found in an area is known as biodiversity or you can define it in a more accurately as ” the totality of genes, species, and ecosystems of a region”. Biodiversity differ from place to place … Continue reading →

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