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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.

We Are Water Protectors — Green Life Blue Water

Posted on July 17, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Stories and prophecies surrounding Mother Earth and Father Sky are abundant in indigenous folklore where Indigenous People have long protected the earth from those who would seek to abuse her resources. That’s why it is so wonderful to see that … Continue reading →

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Amazon Rainforest Magic: The adventures of Namowë, a Yanomami boy (Volume 1) Paperback – May 14, 2014 — The Novel: UnHoly Pursuit: Devil on my Trail

Posted on July 16, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

by Barbara Crane Navarro (Author), Peggy Ford-Fyffe King It seems like a good book to teach children about the rain forest. http://barbaranavarro.com/Books-Livres-Libros Amazon Rainforest Magic: The adventures of Namowë, a Yanomami boy (Volume 1) Paperback – May 14, 2014 — The … Continue reading →

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MJ prorroga presença da Força Nacional na Terra Indígena Enawenê-Nawê — Ecoamazônia

Posted on July 16, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Portaria do Ministério da Justiça e Segurança Pública prorroga, pela quarta vez, o emprego e apoio da Força Nacional de Segurança em apoio à Fundação Nacional do Índio (Funai) na Terra Indígena Enawenê-Nawê, em Mato Grosso. Com isso, as ações … Continue reading →

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Amazônia em chamas: desmatamento de junho de 2021 confirma pior semestre desde 2016 — Mágica Mistura✨

Posted on July 16, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

O desmatamento registrado em junho na Amazônia cresceu pelo terceiro ano consecutivo: foram 1.062 quilômetros quadrados num único mês, observados pelo sistema Deter, versus 1.043 km2 em junho de 2020 e 935 km2 em 2019. 38 more words Amazônia em chamas: … Continue reading →

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« You don’t understand why we want to protect our forest? Ask me, I will answer you! – We want our children to grow up here laughing! – Today I refuse to let them die from the gold smoke!  Chase the gold miners out of our home! »

Posted on July 15, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« You don’t understand why we want to protect our forest? Ask me, I will answer you!  Our ancestors were created with it in the beginning of time. Since then, our people have eaten its game and its fruit. We … Continue reading →

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Jewellery’s big challenge: Cleaning up gold, a conflict mineral – Vogue Business — Tiny Life

Posted on July 15, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Gold is a conflict mineral. Gold mining creates devastation & deforestation in the Amazon, & jewellery company sourcing policies can’t account for it! Advocates are urging the industry to come up with solutions. SOLUTION: #DoNotBuyGOLD! Jewellery’s big challenge: Cleaning up … Continue reading →

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If a Tree Falls in a Rainforest: The Impact of Deforestation in Brazil — The York Politics Review

Posted on July 15, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

By Max Bedford & Megan Edwards – Contributors and Members of Green New Deal York If a Tree Falls in a Rainforest: The Impact of Deforestation in Brazil — The York Politics Review

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« Non capisci perché vogliamo proteggere la nostra foresta? Chiedimi, ti rispondo! »

Posted on July 14, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Non capisci perché vogliamo proteggere la nostra foresta? Chiedimi, ti rispondo! I nostri antenati furono creati con lui all’inizio dei tempi. Da allora, la nostra gente ha mangiato la sua selvaggina ei suoi frutti. Vogliamo che i nostri figli … Continue reading →

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Indígenas no Brasil: Lutas que se Encontram  — Brasdangola Blogue

Posted on July 14, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Fonte: Indígenas no Brasil e palestinos: lutas que se encontram – Monitor do Oriente Indígenas no Brasil e palestinos: lutas que se encontram  — Brasdangola Blogue

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Repressão: governo assalta as terras indígenas à mão armada  — Brasdangola Blogue

Posted on July 14, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Na última terça-feira, 22/6, os cães de guarda da burguesia avançaram violentamente contra uma manifestação de indígenas em Brasília. A Polícia Militar e Fonte: Repressão: governo assalta as terras indígenas à mão armada • Diário Causa Operária Repressão: governo assalta as … Continue reading →

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