Plastic Poetry 009
Belafonte TACOLCY Center
In September 2023, Free Plastic and O, Miami installed their ninth in a series of public art works entitled Plastic Poetry. Plastic Poetry is a series of community activations that mashes up an educational workshop on the realities of recycling and plastic pollution with community/beach cleanups, public art, and poetry.
The text was written by Myles Lattimore, a student from The Belafonte TACOLCY Center commissioned by O, Miami. The five-inch letters are rendered in 4.27 lbs of recycled post-consumer plastic and plastic pollution harvested from various beach cleanups held throughout Miami-Dade County in 2023.
Belafonte TACOLCY Center’s Plastic Poetry Statistics
O, MIAMI’S SUNROON PROGRAM: 2020
Participants: 30
Plastic Recycled: 4.27 lbs
Untitled
BY MYLES LATTIMORE
I AM FROM MIAMI
WHERE WE HAVE DREAMS
BIGGER THAN AIRPLANES
Plastic Poetry is a project of O, Miami and Free Plastic and is made possible with the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; The Children’s Trust; The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation | Crearte; The Miami Foundation; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; and the National Endowment for the Arts. Learn more at O, Miami.
