Dominique Navarro's Blog, page 15
November 9, 2014
November 7, 2014
Just Arrived from Cairo, New Nature Foldouts & Calendars!
At last, my complimentary copies of the new AUC Press Nature Foldouts, and the 2015 Calendar featuring artwork from all the foldouts, has arrived from Cairo to California! Always rather nerve-racking, but mostly very exciting!
2015 Calendar available from AUC Press & Amazon (Limited Availability!)
Wildlife of the Holy Land; An AUC Press Nature Foldout available from AUC Press & Amazon
Cats of Egypt; An AUC Press Nature Foldout available from AUC Press & Amazon
Filed under: AUC Press Nature Foldout News Updates
AUC Press November e-Newsletter
Exciting AUC Press November e-Newsletter, featuring fascinating interviews with Egyptologist Salima Ikram, desert explorer Arita Baaijen, and a write-up on the new Nature Foldouts!
Filed under: AUC Press Nature Foldout News Updates
October 30, 2014
YOU ARE INVITED!!! to the ART & SCIENCE Celebration, Nov. 8th.
The CELEBRATION of ART Gala will be at the SMMNRA Visitor Center, November 8 at 3:00 PM
SMMNRA Visitor Center (805) 370-2301, 26876 Mulholland Hwy, Calabasas, CA 91302
Map to Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Visitor Center
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October 29, 2014
October 20, 2014
NEW Nature Foldouts and a 2015 Calendar! Now Available!!!
NEW AUC Press Nature Foldouts available from AUC Press & Amazon
2015 Calendar available from AUC Press & Amazon
Wildlife of the Holy Land; An AUC Press Nature Foldout available from AUC Press & Amazon
Cats of Egypt; An AUC Press Nature Foldout available from AUC Press & Amazon
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NEW! Cats of Egypt; An AUC Press Nature Foldout — Now Available!
Cats of Egypt; An AUC Press Nature Foldout
by Dominique Navarro with Scientific Consultant Richard Hoath
Order from AUC Press: http://aucpress.com/p-4907-cats-of-egypt.aspx or from Amazon
A handy colorful guide to the wild and domestic felines of Egypt ancient and modern
Cats were just as favored in ancient Egypt as they are today. Egyptian paintings of domesticated cats date back 3,600 years, and animal cults included worship to the cat goddess Bastet. This AUC Press Nature Foldout explores wild and domestic cats of Egypt: large cats like the Cheetah, the Leopard, and the Caracal, which are all extremely threatened or near extinction within Egypt; and smaller cats including the African Wild Cat, Swamp Cat, Sand Cat, and Egyptian Mau. Whether wild or household pets, cats have long been beloved by people.
• Each species described and illustrated, alongside examples of their natural prey in the wild
• Map of Egypt describing the various habitats of wild cats, as well as locations of ancient Egyptian sites where the cat was worshiped and mummifed
• Noted appearances of felines in hieroglyphs and reliefs
• Conservation efforts for threatened cat species
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NEW! Wildlife of the Holy Land; An AUC Press Nature Foldout — Now Available!
Wildlife of the Holy Land; An AUC Press Nature Foldout
by Dominique Navarro with Scientific Consultant Sherif Baha el Din
Order from AUC Press: http://aucpress.com/p-4911-wildlife-of-the-holy-land.aspx or from Amazon
A handy colorful guide to the animals and plants of the Holy Land
The Holy Land—the birthplace of great religions—is also an environment of unique flora and fauna. Encompassing a vast, ancient region—lying between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, from Syria in the north down to Egypt in the south—the Holy Land has been home to an array of wildlife, some of which remain today, others of which have vanished for all time. The sacred stories of Noah’s Ark filled with such animals, and the Garden of Eden exemplified the diversity and cohabitation of the natural world. This AUC Press Nature Foldout explores some of the most beloved wildlife revered as sacred and special in the Holy Land, past and present.
• Includes over 50 species of flora and fauna
• Map of the Holy Land with geological sites including the Jordan Valley, Euphrates River, Dead Sea, Mount Carmel, Negev Desert, Sinai, the Mediterranean, Red Sea, and River Nile
• Quotes from holy texts giving insight on the relationship of humankind with wildlife
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October 19, 2014
AUC Press October News
AUC Press Nature Foldout artist Dominique Navarro wins Emmy: http://aucpress.com/t-newsitem.aspx?NewsID=298
Natural history artist, writer, and art director Dominique Navarro was awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Art Direction (2014) for the TV series ‘Big History’ at last month’s 35th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards in New York City.
“Winning an Emmy, especially a News & Documentary Emmy, is an immense honor,” said Navarro.” It is always a challenge for a creative person like myself to find projects that are inspiring, intelligent, and admirable. ‘Big History’ is such a project. I am really grateful to work with such a talented, dedicated team of people.”
The recent Emmy winner is the author and illustrator of the AUC Press Nature Foldout series for Egypt; Ancient Egypt’s Wildlife, with Salima Ikram (2013), Birds of the Nile Valley, with John Wyatt (2013), Cats of Egypt, with Richard Hoath (forthcoming), Egypt’s Flora and Fauna, with Richard Hoath (2013), Egypt’s Prehistoric Fauna, with Matthew Lamanna (2013), and finally Wildlife of the Holy Land, with Sherif Baha El Din (forthcoming).
The AUC Press Nature Foldouts are available in the AUC Press Bookstores and can be ordered through the AUC Press website. To buy them on Amazon, click here.
“The AUC Press Nature Foldouts have been my passion for the last few years, allowing me the opportunity to work with naturalist and other scientists on a project that hopes to inspire a positive appreciation toward the environment and Egypt’s natural heritage for generations to come,” said Navarro.
The AUC Press 2015 calendar Cats, Crocodiles, and Camels is also now available.
The full-color illustrations representing scenes of Egypt’s ancient and modern wildlife are by Dominique Navarro.
‘Big History,’ an H2 History Channel series produced by Flight 33 Productions, chooses familiar subjects—such as salt, horses, gold, ice, gravity, coffee, or weapons—and looks at their influence on civilization and technology throughout the history of humankind.
“I am so proud to have worked on ‘Big History’,” said Navarro. “The collaborative teamwork, commitment to intelligent, educational storytelling, and inspiring creativity from all involved on this series makes it a unique project to be a part of.”
Navarro has worked for over a decade as an art director in the documentary and film industry for programs featured on the History Channel, Discovery and National Geographic.
As a trained forensic artist, Navarro also collaborates with law enforcement to create composite sketches from witness and victim descriptions. Her expertise has led to her work in Egypt at the excavation of a 25th Dynasty tomb where she created facial reconstructions from mummies as well as tomb diagrams and epigraphic studies.
You can follow Dominique Navarro on her blog, website, and on Facebook.
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October 11, 2014
Environment Lecture at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute with Richard Hoath, October 16 6PM
THIS WEEK IN CAIRO: The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo will present a lecture by Richard Hoath on Egypt’s environment, wildlife and art, October 16th at 6pm: http://www.institutes.leiden.edu/nvic/news/lectures-films.html
Egypt’s incredible wildlife: Art and nature
Egypt possesses an extraordinarily diverse but little studied and understood wildlife. From the deserts, themselves a series of widely varying landscapes to the Nile Delta and Valley, the mountains of South Sinai and the Eastern Desert and the waters of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean – Egypt has a mosaic of different habitats. These habitats support a myriad animal and plant species of incredible variety but many very little known and far less studied. This presentation will look at just some of these species and will be illustrated not by photographs but by Hoath’s own drawings and paintings from his notebooks and journals and finished plates accumulated after many years exploring much of Egypt including many of its remoter areas.
Richard Hoath is a leading naturalist and long time resident of Egypt. He has travelled extensively around the country in search of its extraordinary, often little known and increasingly threatened wildlife. His travels and researches have resulted in several books on Egypt’s fauna most notably his Field Guide to the Mammals of Egypt the second edition of which was published in 2009 which he not only wrote but illustrated. He is a monthly columnist for Egypt and the author of many scholarly and popular articles on the country’s wildlife. He is a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London and sits on the Egyptian Ornithological Rarities Committee. He is currently on the Faculty of the AUC The American University in Cairo.
Filed under: Egypt News - Environment & Egyptology
