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Orchard Villa Elementary School
In September 2024, Free Plastic and O, Miami installed their 21st poem in a series of public art works entitled Plastic Poetry.
Plastic Poetry is a series of community activations that blends recycling plastics, plastic pollution, beach cleanups, public art, and poetry. The text was written by Eugene from Ms. Hartman’s third-grade class at Orchard Villa Elementary School commissioned by O, Miami.
The five-inch letters are rendered in 3.99 lbs of recycled post-consumer plastic and plastic pollution harvested from various beach cleanups & collection groups found throughout Miami-Dade County in 2024.
Orchard Villa Elementary School’s Plastic Poetry Statistics
O, MIAMI’S SUNROOM PROGRAM: 2023-24
Participants: xx
Plastic Recycled: 3.99 lbs
UNTITLED
BY EUGENE FROM MS. HARTMAN’S THIRD-GRADE CLASS
I’M THE GLASSES THAT HELP YOU SEE
AND I’M THE ONE WHO’S LOOKING
Plastic Poetry is a project of O, Miami and Free Plastic in partnership with Orchard Villa Elementary School 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.
