Plastic Poetry 019
School For Advanced Studies
In September 2024, Free Plastic and O, Miami installed their 22nd 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 Sydney from Martha Cabrera’s eleventh-grade class at School For Advanced Studies (Wolfson Campus, class of 2024) commissioned by O, Miami.
The five-inch letters are rendered in 2.97 lbs of recycled post-consumer plastic and plastic pollution harvested from various beach cleanups & collection groups found throughout Miami-Dade County in 2024.
School For Advanced Studies’s Plastic Poetry Statistics
O, MIAMI’S SUNROOM PROGRAM: 2023-24
Participants: xx
Plastic Recycled: 2.97 lbs
UNTITLED
SYDNEY FROM MARTHA CABRERA’S ELEVENTH-GRADE CLASS
JOY BURSTS OUT OF THIN AIR
JOY IS MEANT TO SHARE
Plastic Poetry is a project of O, Miami and Free Plastic in partnership with School For Advanced Studies 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.
