Francisco Silveira (1901-1992), was born on the island of São Jorge in the Azores. At the age of nine months he arrived in the U.S. with his mother. At some point his nam [...]

João was born on the island of São Miguel, Azores, and came to the US as a young man. He is both a painter and sculptor and is known for his use of brilliant color, lush [...]

Mel Ramos was born in Sacramento, California, in 1935. His grandparents came to California from the Azores, and as a youth he was exposed to elements of Portuguese immigr [...]

Nathan Oliveira (1928-2010), was born in Oakland, California. His father was an immigrant from Madeira; his grandfather on his mother’s side was born in Lisbon; and a gr [...]

John Mattos grew up in Modesto, California and studied commercial art at the Art Center College in Pasadena. He later established his studio in San Francisco. His corpora [...]

Noah Itta was the grandson of the Azorean whaleman Antone Bett, who settled in Barrow, on the North Slope of Alaska, in the late 19th century. I interviewed him and his w [...]

Domingos Fernandes was born on the island of Fogo in the Cabo Verde islands, at the time a Portuguese colony. We learn about his family background, including his father’s [...]

Antonio M. Jorge da Silva was born in Macau, then an overseas province of Portugal, prior to WWII. He talks about the history of the Portuguese in the Far East, and Macau [...]

Marilia Coquim Wiget is very active in Portuguese community and was president of the the Sacramento-based Portuguese Historical and Cultural Society for many years. She l [...]

This interview with Al Dutra was conducted in two sessions in January, 2014. He begins by discussing his Azorean roots and the family’s later settlement in New Bedford, M [...]