Interview with Teresa Pereira on YPL Murals

Dublin Core

Title

Interview with Teresa Pereira on YPL Murals

Description

Eleanora Lawrence interviewed Teresa Pereira, the artist responsible for murals in the Children's Floor at Riverfront and the Grinton I. Will library. The artist provided newspaper clippings featuring her work. The names of the individuals on the sailboats at the Riverfront Library Children's Floor can be found here.

Creator

Eleanora Lawrence
Teresa Pereira

Source

Teresa Pereira
The New York Times
Scarsdale Magazine
The Journal News
Trader Extra

Publisher

Yonkers Public Library
The New York Times
Scarsdale Magazine
The Journal News
Trader Extra

Date

Interview conducted July 1st, 2024
Newspaper articles published between 2004 and 2006

Format

.wav, .jpg

Oral History Item Type Metadata

Interviewer

Eleanora Lawrence

Interviewee

Teresa Pereira

Location

Zoom

Original Format

WAV

Duration

12:38

Time Summary

1:00-How she came to paint the sailboats mural at Riverfront
3:12-Planning and executing the Yonkers Historical Figures mural at Will
6:02-Origins of the names portrayed on the sailboats at Riverfront
10:50-The artist's workshops at the library today

Files

Collection

Citation

Eleanora Lawrence Teresa Pereira, “Interview with Teresa Pereira on YPL Murals ,” Yonkers Public Library Archive, accessed November 22, 2024, http://archive.ypl.org/items/show/1253.