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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.

ATUALIZAÇÃO – TRANSGRESSÃO: O risco de os evangélicos, sem saber, espalharem vírus de coronárias para povos indígenas isolados: missionários e a pandemia de COVID-19/Apagamento da existência indígena – Parte 2

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Em meio à pandemia de coronavírus que assola o Brasil, aterrissando e decolando de vilarejos na região amazônica do Vale do Javari para entrar em contato e evangelizar as comunidades indígenas nessa região remota e de difícil acesso, os missionários … Continue reading →

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ACTUALIZACIÓN – TRANSGRESIÓN: El riesgo de que evangélicos sin saberlo propaguen coronavirus a pueblos indígenas aislados: misioneros y la pandemia de COVID-19/Borrado de la existencia nativa – Parte 2

Posted on April 1, 2020 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

En medio de la pandemia de coronavirus que asola Brasil, aterrizando y despegando de las aldeas de la región amazónica de Vale do Javari para contactar y evangelizar a las comunidades indígenas en esta remota y difícil región, los misioneros … Continue reading →

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MISE À JOUR – TRANSGRESSION: Le risque que les évangéliques propagent sans le savoir des coronavirus aux peuples autochtones isolés: les missionnaires et la pandémie COVID-19/Effacement de l’existence indigène – Partie 2

Posted on March 31, 2020 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Au milieu de la pandémie de coronavirus qui ravage le Brésil, atterrissant et décollant des villages de la région amazonienne de Vale do Javari afin de contacter et d’évangéliser les communautés autochtones dans cette région éloignée et difficile à atteindre, … Continue reading →

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UPDATE – TRANSGRESSION: The risk of evangelicals unknowingly spreading coronavirus to Isolated indigenous peoples: Missionaries and the COVID-19 pandemic in the Brazilian Amazon- Erasure of Indigenous Existence – Part 2

Posted on March 30, 2020 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic which is ravaging Brazil, landing in and lifting off from villages in the Amazon region’s Vale do Javari in order to contact and evangelize indigenous communities in this remote and difficult to reach … Continue reading →

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AGGIORNAMENTO – TRASGRESSIONE: Popoli indigeni isolati, missionari e la pandemia COVID-19/Cancellazione dell’esistenza nativa – proselitismo al tempo dei coronavirus: Parte 1

Posted on March 26, 2020 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Nel mezzo della pandemia di coronavirus che sta devastando il Brasile, atterrando e decollando dai villaggi nella regione amazzonica di Vale do Javari per contattare ed evangelizzare le comunità indigene in questa regione remota e difficile da raggiungere, i missionari … Continue reading →

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ACTUALIZACIÓN – TRANSGRESIÓN: Pueblos indígenas aislados, misioneros y la pandemia COVID-19/Borrado de la existencia indígena – proselitismo en tiempos de coronavirus: Parte 1

Posted on March 26, 2020 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

En medio de la pandemia de coronavirus que devasta Brasil, aterrizando y despegando de las aldeas de la región amazónica de Vale do Javari para contactar y evangelizar a las comunidades indígenas en esta remota y difícil región, los misioneros … Continue reading →

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MISE À JOUR – TRANSGRESSION: Peuples autochtones isolés, missionnaires et pandémie de COVID-19/Effacement de l’existence indigène – le prosélytisme au temps des coronavirus: Partie 1

Posted on March 24, 2020 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Au milieu de la pandémie de coronavirus qui ravage le Brésil, atterrissant et décollant des villages de la région de Vale do Javari afin de contacter et d’évangéliser les communautés autochtones dans cette région éloignée et difficile à atteindre, les … Continue reading →

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ATUALIZAÇÃO – TRANSGRESSÃO: Povos indígenas isolados, missionários e a pandemia do COVID-19/Apagamento da existência indígena – proselitismo na época dos coronavírus: Parte 1

Posted on March 23, 2020 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Em meio à pandemia de coronavírus que assola o Brasil, aterrissando e decolando de vilarejos na região amazônica do Vale do Javari para entrar em contato e evangelizar comunidades indígenas nessa região remota e de difícil acesso, os missionários evangélicos … Continue reading →

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UPDATE – TRANSGRESSION: Isolated indigenous peoples, Missionaries and the COVID-19/ Erasure of Indigenous Existence – proselytism in the time of coronavirus: Part 1

Posted on March 23, 2020 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic which is ravaging Brazil, landing in and lifting off from villages in the Amazon region’s Vale do Javari in order to contact and evangelize indigenous communities in this remote and difficult to reach … Continue reading →

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NO all’oro nel sangue! – Un messaggio per Davi Kopenawa, Claudia Andujar e Survival con un avvertimento del cacique Raoni Metuktire:

Posted on March 8, 2020 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Quando il cacique Raoni Metuktire venne a parlare a Parigi, chiese agli europei di smettere di mangiare carne per proteggere il popolo di Xingu dalla distruzione del loro territorio da parte dell’agroindustria. Sulla stessa linea di pensiero, tutti voi, parlando … Continue reading →

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