CAROL TODARO

• Miami Shores Village Bayfront Park, 9501 – 9599 N. Bayshore Drive, Miami Shores, FL

Biscayne, 2020

Proposal
Todaro proposes to work onsite, at the Miami Shores Village Bayside Park, where a plaque describes the founding of a community called “Biscayne.” She will make a series of frottage drawings from the raised text of the plaque, extracting letters, words and phrases to make a list poem that is also an alternative history, from the Tequesta to Jim Crow.

Biography
Carol Todaro is an artist and writer who makes artists’ books. Her work has been collected by the Bibliothèque nationale de France as well as the National Museum for Women in the Arts, in Washington DC. In 2019, her exhibit, “The Artful Book,” took place at the LNS Gallery in Miami. She lives and teaches in Miami.