
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, Philadelphia, PA
2007, BA Bachelor of Arts, Film Studies with Art History minor, Connecticut College, New London, CT
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Fellowships / Awards
2024, Thriving Communities Grant, Sketching the Senses: the Sonoran Series, Tucson, AZ
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, 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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