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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.

Mágicas Imagens ✨✨ — Mágica Mistura

Posted on May 19, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

imagens: Cânion Fortaleza – Cambará do Sul – RS -Brasil Mágicas Imagens ✨✨ — Mágica Mistura

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Espetáculos de danças, formatura e mais na coluna da Jackie —

Posted on May 19, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

E-mail: jackiepinheiro@gmail.com Instagram: @jackiepinheiroac Facebook: Jackie Pinheiro Espetáculos de dança virtual realizados pela Cia. Garatuja foram sucesso No seu 31º aniversário de fundação, a Cia. Garatuja de Artes Cênicas realizou a X Mostra Garatuja de Dança e III Fedaquiry – … Continue reading →

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Você está se enfeitando com ouro? … « A floresta está sangrando, eu posso sentir no meu coração. »

Posted on May 18, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

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https://barbara-navarro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/4-1.jpg Foto: Ricardo Stuckert «?Série Índios Brasileiros?» «?Os garimpeiros derramam mais mercúrio envenenado na terra do que o peso de ouro que levam embora. Eles são como mortos-vivos, cobertos de lama dourada.?» cacique Raoni…

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Abril Indígena ,2021 — Tecido de vozes — Mágica Mistura✨

Posted on May 18, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Com o apoio da Apib (Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil) imagens em homenagem aos povos originários foram projetadas no prédio da Câmara dos Deputados, em Brasilia/DF, no dia 19 de abril. A iniciativa partiu de Joenia Wapichana (Rede-RR), primeira … Continue reading →

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Brazil’s Middle Earth — Organikos

Posted on May 18, 2021 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

A white-vented violetear hummingbird feeds on the nectar of the flowers of a Stachytarpheta glabra Thanks to Augusto Gomes for bringing this region, unknown to us, to our attention: Life on the rocks in Brazil’s campo rupestre In a little-known … Continue reading →

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Portez-vous de l’or? … «La forêt saigne, je la sens dans mon cœur. »

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

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https://barbara-navarro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2-1.png Photo: Ricardo Stuckert « Série Indiens du Brésil » «Les mineurs d’or versent plus de mercure empoisonné sur la terre que le poids de l’or qu’ils emportent. Ils sont comme des morts-vivants, couverts…

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Mágicas Imagens ✨✨ — Mágica Mistura✨

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

todas as imagens de Camboriú SC Brasil Mágicas Imagens ✨✨ — Mágica Mistura✨

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Assista a “Fábio Jr. – Muito Cacique Pra Pouco Índio” no YouTube — Mágica Mistura

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

MUITO CACIQUE PRA POUCO ÍNDIO… Muito cacique pra pouco índioMuito papo e pouco somPessoas querendo ser o que não são Quanta conversa jogada fora… 69 more words Assista a “Fábio Jr. – Muito Cacique Pra Pouco Índio” no YouTube — Mágica … Continue reading →

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Are You Wearing Gold? … « The forest is bleeding, I can feel it in my heart. »

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

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https://barbara-navarro.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/1-1.jpg Photo: Ricardo Stuckert « Brazilian Indians series » «?The gold miners pour more poison mercury on the earth than the weight of the gold they take away. They are like living dead, covered in golden mud.?»?…

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Video: Slowing deforestation is the key to preventing the next pandemic – but what does that cost? — Palm Oil Detectives

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

Les Kaufman, Boston University In a recent journal article, a team of biologists, medical scientists, environmental scientists and conservationists proposed a number of measures to reduce the likelihood of future pandemics, many of which originate with wild animals such as … Continue reading →

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