FS2021 #PublicArtFinder pointless prize

[Boomer Cycles]

Post your #PublicArtFinder pic here! But please do so responsibly by using the “small” option on your Tapatalk menu!!

Rules (which are more like general guidelines [emoji849]):

1. Ride your bike a least a mile to any art form (loosely defined) that is freely accessible to the public

2. Take a picture of said art with a bicycle somewhere in the frame, and upload to this thread, Strava and/or the FS Facebook page (but please include the link here so that it can be found).

3. Hashtag your ride #publicartfinder (not CaSe SeNsItIvE) on Strava if you want to appear on the FS2021 PP leaderboard https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/publicartfinder

4. Public Art rides/pics must be posted within 72 hours, so as to allow all a fair chance to play, and avoid sandbagging at the end of FS2020 to game the PP competition.

Entries will be judged by some faceless cabal on totally subjective criteria that may include use of creative objects (like a bike), composition, light, artistic flair, witty captions, great stories, # of quality submissions, and/or # likes, kudos or dislikes. Extra points if you disclose the exact location of the art form so that others may enjoy it.

Now go find your Public Art form!

Sent from Boomer_Cycles via my iPhone using Tapatalk

Topic

[Boomer Cycles]

@huberww 205343 wrote:

FS2021 #PublicArtFinder pointless prize

Seward Johnson sculpture “Sharing the Headlines” in front of Freddie Mac’s HQ at 8200 Jones Branch Drive in Tysons

Thanks for the precise location. I am now adding that to my TyCo #publicartfinder route

Sent from Boomer_Cycles via my iPhone using Tapatalk

[tomacsh]

“Denis’ Garden” at Sligo-Dennis Local Park along Sligo Creek Parkway in Silver Spring. (Surrounded with plants in summer)
Memorial to families of victims of drunk driving.

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Kbikeva]

@Boomer2U 205375 wrote:

Congratulations! Your #PublicArtFinder membership is now back in hood standing

Sent from Boomer_Cycles via my iPhone using Tapatalk

Whew. I was losing sleep worrying about my hood cred.

[camiller]

Found outside the Lorton Workhouse

[ATTACH=CONFIG]22793[/ATTACH]

[LeftyLaura]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]22802[/ATTACH]

So I just want to say my mom and sister are artists, I have HS classmates who are artists, some of my best friends are artists named Laura BUT this is just so wrong on so many levels that the bike improves the sculpture. I prefer abstract landscapes.

[Thor]

Greenbelt Elementary School

[ATTACH=CONFIG]22804[/ATTACH]

[BigBaldy]

Terraset elementary School, Reston 1/16/21[ATTACH=CONFIG]22817[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]22817[/ATTACH]

[Kbikeva]

@BigBaldy 205450 wrote:

Terraset elementary School, Reston 1/16/21[ATTACH=CONFIG]22817[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]22817[/ATTACH]

I’m glad you found this one. It is called “Birdbath” and is one of several pieces by artist Valerie Theberge in Reston. (The newest is the “Continuum” on Sunrise Valley as part of the wall for the Lincoln property. There’s also a bench in the round she did there.) I think this placement of this piece is unfortunate as you really have to know it’s there to find it.

I developed the Art Rides for Public Art Reston. This is on the South ride as well as the “whole enchilada” ride.

[Kbikeva]

#PublicArtFinder

Before I got asked to take my bike outside (oops), I managed to snap this photo in the Arlington Post Office. The New Deal era paintings are billed as “murals” but they’re quite small, up high, and not very imposing. I had a mental picture that these would be full wall sized. Kinda disappointed. This is the “mural” that depicts apple picking.[ATTACH=CONFIG]22820[/ATTACH]

[Kbikeva]

Before I was asked to take my bike outside (oops), I managed to snap a photo of this New Deal era “mural” of apple picking. From the descriptions, I had this image in my mind of full wall paintings. Alas, I was disappointed. But art is art.[ATTACH=CONFIG]22821[/ATTACH]

[Catedrew]

#PublicArtFinder – on 7th Street South in Arlington, VA, just before the dead end where there is an entrance to the W&OD trail. My bike isn’t in the photo, but there IS a bike in the artwork!

[ATTACH=CONFIG]22840[/ATTACH]

[Catedrew]

#PublicArtFinder Arlington Arts Center 3550 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA. “Passages” represents the ‘middle passage’ of the slave trade. https://arlingtonartscenter.org/exhibits/2020/lynda-andrews-barry-passage/

[ATTACH=CONFIG]22842[/ATTACH]

[bikesnick]

1/16/2021

“The Thought” by Robert Cole, outside Walmart, Tysons, VA.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]22843[/ATTACH]

[consularrider]

Three good murals from today’s ride.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]22848[/ATTACH] Rockaway Brewing, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

[ATTACH=CONFIG]22849[/ATTACH] Recycle a Bicycle, next door to Rockaway. May be something like Phoenix Bikes in Arlington

[ATTACH=CONFIG]22850[/ATTACH] Brooklyn Brewing, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

[bikedavid]

Checkmate! The mural on the Capitol Pool Checkers Club in Shaw. Pretty cool that there’s a checkers club for the community.

Sent from my moto g stylus using Tapatalk

[Author]

Replies