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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.

« No all’ORO DEL SANGUE! – Niente Cartier! » Yanomami e gli Alberi contro Estrazione dell’Oro, avvelenamento da Mercurio e oggetti d’Oro di Lusso / Mostra 2025!

Posted on February 11, 2025 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Gli sciamani Yanomami che combattono l’epidemia di xawara vedono apparire l’immagine della malattia sotto forma di bande di stoffa scarlatta. L’epidemia di xawara si sta avvicinando e il suo fumo risplende! Rende il cielo un fantasma e divora tutto Umani … Continue reading →

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What Makes a Family: Childbearing in the Climate Crisis — UAlberta Sustain SU – Sustainability Blog

Posted on February 11, 2025 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

I first read that not having children is the best thing you can do for climate change in David Collings’ Stolen Future, Broken Present: The Human Significance of Climate Change:  “The implications are unmistakable: a person who wishes to forestall … Continue reading →

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« ¡No al ORO DE SANGRE! – ¡Nada de Cartier! » Yanomami y los Árboles contra Minería de Oro, envenenamiento por Mercurio y artículos de Oro de Lujo / Exposición 2025

Posted on February 10, 2025 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Los chamanes Yanomami que luchan contra la epidemia de xawara ven aparecer la imagen de la enfermedad en forma de bandas de tela escarlata. ¡La epidemia de xawara se acerca y su humo brilla! Hace que el cielo sea un fantasma y devora a … Continue reading →

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Spiritual Ecology – “humanity needs to examine and re-evaluate our fundamental points of view and beliefs about the Earth and our spiritual responsibility toward this planet.” — St. Mary’s Hermitage

Posted on February 10, 2025 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Spiritual ecology is a spiritual response to the intensifying ecological crisis. It is an expanding field that unites ecology and environmentalism with an awareness of all that is sacred within creation. Calls include, a responses to environmental problems, a spiritual … Continue reading →

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« Não ao OURO DE SANGUE! – Não Cartier! » Yanomami e as Árvores contra Mineração de Ouro, contaminação por Mercúrio e artigos de Luxo em Ouro / Exposição 2025

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Os xamãs Yanomami que lutam contra a epidemia de xawara veem a imagem da doença aparecer forma de tiras de tecido escarlate. A epidemia de xawara está se aproximando e sua fumaça está vermelha brilhante! Ele transforma o céu em … Continue reading →

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Nearly 1,500 Jaguars Killed or Displaced in Brazilian Amazon – Treehugger!

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

Nearly 1,500 Jaguars Killed or Displaced in Brazilian Amazon – Treehugger https://ift.tt/3aGtIF3 Nearly 1,500 Jaguars Killed or Displaced in Brazilian Amazon  Treehugger Superforest via “deforestation” – Google News https://ift.tt/2tI2HiE Nearly 1,500 Jaguars Killed or Displaced in Brazilian Amazon – Treehugger —

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« Non à l’OR DU SANG ! – Pas de Cartier ! » Yanomami et les Arbres contre Extraction d’Or, empoisonnement au Mercure et articles de Luxe en Or / Exposition 2025

Posted on February 8, 2025 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« Les chamans Yanomami qui combattent l’épidémie de xawara voient l’image de la maladie apparaître sous la forme de bandes de tissu écarlate. L’épidémie de xawara approche et sa fumée est rougeoyante! Elle fait du ciel un fantôme et dévore tous … Continue reading →

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Happening Also in Venezuela! – Brazil gold miners carve illegal ‘Road to Chaos’ out of Amazon reserve | Amazon rainforest | The Guardian — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

Posted on February 8, 2025 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

“We believe there are at least four excavators in there – and that takes mining in Yanomami territory to the next level, to a colossal level of destruction,” the senior forest campaigner said, as his team prepared to take to … Continue reading →

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« No to GOLD! – No to Cartier ! » Yanomami and Trees versus Gold Mining, Mercury poisoning and Gold Luxury items / Exhibition 2025

Posted on February 7, 2025 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

« The Yanomami shamans who fight the xawara epidemic see the disease’s image appear in the form of strips of scarlet fabric. The xawara epidemic is approaching and its smoke is glowing red! It is making the sky become ghost and is devouring all the … Continue reading →

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In the Amazon, the World’s Largest Reservoir of Biodiversity, Two-Thirds of Species Have Lost Habitat to Deforestation! – InsideClimate News

Posted on February 7, 2025 by Barbara Crane Navarro - Rainforest Art Project

In the Amazon, the World’s Largest Reservoir of Biodiversity, Two-Thirds of Species Have Lost Habitat to … – InsideClimate News https://ift.tt/3DCVYWb In the Amazon, the World’s Largest Reservoir of Biodiversity, Two-Thirds of Species Have Lost Habitat to …  InsideClimate News Superforest … Continue reading →

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