Little Haiti artist and muralist Serge Toussaint painted our cover based on a popular dish – whole fish at Miami’s Chef Creole. You can spot his food and drink paintings throughout Miami (drive down NW 7th Ave. to look for his colorful renderings of soda cans and fish on bodegas, and see the fruits and vegetables on the Miami Produce Center on NW 12th Ave.). His portraits and street murals throughout Little Haiti, Wynwood and beyond, all signed with a distinctive $ERGE. Toussaint is an arts superstar in his own right, gaining fame in 2008 for his murals of political figures. He was asked to remove then-candidate Barack Obama from his Martin Luther King mural because government money could not be used for political endorsements. Toussaint also painted a huge mural of the Miami Heat in Wynwood on NW 29th St, with LeBron James at the center. Once James announced he was leaving for Cleveland, his image was defaced.
Toussaint has been artist-in-residence at HistoryMiami and is featured in their current exhibition, Avenues of Expression: Street Traditions in Miami, through January.
