About / CV

Teresa Pereira is a landscape architect and interdisciplinary artist based in Tucson, AZ.

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Education

2015, MLA Master of Landscape Architecture, focus on Ecological Restoration, Temple University

2007, BA Bachelor of Arts, Film Studies with Art History minor, Connecticut College

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Fellowships / Awards

2023, MOCA Tucson Night Bloom Grantee, Sketching the Senses: the Sonoran Series at Las Milpitas, Tucson, AZ

2022, Fulbright Researcher, Peru

2015, National Olmsted Scholar Finalist, Landscape Architecture Foundation

2014-2015, Digital Humanities Scholar, HASTAC Foundation

2013, Island Press and Society for Ecological Restoration Video Prize

2011, Selected Emerging Writer for Letterpress Publishing, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY

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Exhibits / Presentations 

2021, Poetry Reading, Pansy Press, Tucson, AZ

2020, 5 Minute Film Festival, MOCA Tucson, "A Glimpse Into an American Landmark II"

2017, "Context Driven Design", Panel and Presentation, University of New England, Biddeford, Maine

2014, "Ayahuasqueros", Video Installation/Panel Discussion, Museo del Arte Lima (MALI), Lima, Peru

2014, "How Do We Experience Landscape?" Workshop, Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Lima, Peru

2014, Cambiando Mediante del Arte, Panel Discussion with Timothy Weaver and John Liu, Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Lima, Peru

2014, Landscape Architecture Digital Exhibit Using Omega, Presentation for HASTAC, Paley Library, Philadelphia, PA

2014, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA), Presentation on Service Learning, Baltimore, MD

2013, "Most of May/Some of June", Rooftop Film Festival, Brooklyn Grange, LIC, NY

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Community

2019-present, Gardener/Garden Leader, Las Milpitas Community Farm and Garden, Tucson, AZ

2017-2019, Community Garden Member, Casco Bay Gardens, Portland, Maine

2017-2019, Member/Printmaker, Pickwick Independent Press, Portland, Maine

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