Pointless Prize: Public Art Finder
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UPDATED #publicartfinders winners are….. (drum roll!!!)…..
- 1st place – Chris Randall (@consularrider)
- 2nd place – Heidi Rausch (@heidi-rausch)
- 3rd place — Janet L (@indiana)
A special shout out to Carol Calhoun (@cvcalhoun) who was on track to finish in the top 3 participants, but sadly was hit by a car and had to drop back to a being a Friend of BAFS.
I was hoping to see you all at the Freezing Saddles Final Happy Hour on April 2nd, but alas I will be out of town — on a bike tour, imagine that. Boomer (thank you!) will present the awards in my absence.
Thank you all so much for playing #publicartfinder! I thoroughly enjoyed seeing all your posts and reading the comments and stories accompanying them. I follow all of you on Strava and will be watching for more of your public art finds. I hope you all will play again in 2026!
How to Play #PublicArtFinder
1. Ride your bike at least 10 miles. On that 10-mile ride, discover any art form (loosely defined: you know it when you see it! The art find must be readily accessible to the general public. An art find on a ride less than 10 miles does not count.
2. Only one art find per day will be counted.
3. Include some part of your bike in the photo.
4. Post the photo of your art find in both of these places (use small resolution):
- Your Strava for the ride on which you discovered the art. You must use the hashtag #publicartfinder in your Strava ride title for your art find to be counted on the FS2025 leaderboard. Follow me on Strava (karenbikes2) and allow me to follow you back so I can verify your #publicartfinder rides. I’ll use the data from the leaderboard to feed the official #publicartfinder scorecard. If you want to view the leaderboard and can’t locate it, email me: karenbikes2 at gmail.
- The BAFS2025 “Pointless Prize: Public Art Finder” thread on the BikeForum. Must be the same photo as the one posted to your Strava.
5. Post your #publicartfinder photo on Strava and in the Forum before midnight on the day of the ride.
Describing the location of your art find is nice to include with the photo so that others may find it too. Including any description of the art (artist, information about its creation, etc.) is also nice.
One point will be awarded for each entry that meets all 5 criteria listed above. A faceless cabal will judge the entries. Bonus points may be awarded based on subjective criteria — e.g., use of creative objects (like your bike interacting with your art find), art find descriptions in your posting, witty captions, composition, light, artistic flair, great stories, percentage of quality submissions, # likes/kudos/dislikes, etc. In the event of a tie, efficacy rules: most art discoveries/least # of total FS2025 miles will win.
Friends of FS2024 are welcome to post, but only registered participants can win prizes.
Now go find some public art!
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January 26, took a little ride to Bopser, in the forest on the south side of Stuttgart. Bagged this neat bit modern art in Höhenpark Killesberg on my return which took me through the city and back up through another forest I used to ride in quite a bit.
January 28, on the backside of Gottlieb-Daimler-Schule I, in Sindelfingen (just 3 minutes from my hotel), I saw this mural. When the adults complain about kids and their screens…and, then they put the characters from the video games to be on the school wall…
January 29, last ride in Stuttgart. Am Kleiner Schloßplatz sits this rather unique looking iron sculpture. I share it with you.
My bike leaning against a decorative Sign Post #yardart with mile markers for the distance from Minor Hill (highest point in Arlington VA) to various destinations in the Greater Caribbean Basin. On the other side, it also has a mile marker for Nome, Alaska. Found at intersection of N Rockingham St and Virginia Ave, approaching Minor Hill, Arlington VA.
1/31/2025
I have no idea what holiday these people are celebrating with the two skeletons – one headless and wearing a Santa Claus suit – and a skeleton dog with a leash made of Christmas lights. But I’m here for it!
My bike leaning (in the bottom foreground) against “Aim for the Stars” #yardart at Friends of Guest House, One East Luray Avenue, Alexandria VA where they believe your past does not define your future. And they help women successfully reenter the community from incarceration.
2/1/2025 “Hooray” Hou De Sousa 2021 Steel Plate
I think this was near the L’Enfant Plaza Metro on 7th ST
Technically, it was on a ride on 1/31 AND 2/1. It was taken at 11:55 on 1/31, but I’m uploading on 2/1 because there are like 5 rules and I didn’t know it was one of those “by midnight” deals, but it was too pretty to pass up. So, if you can count it on the day the ride ended, that would be good.
2/1/2025
Murals at the Alethia Tanner Park on MBT
From Wikipedia –
Alethia Tanner was an American educator and a leader in the African American community of Washington, D.C. in the early nineteenth century. She purchased the freedom of 18 enslaved people and helped create The Bell School, the first school for free black children in Washington, D.C.
Happy Black History Month!
2/1 yard art 12th and Newton NE DC
Yard art includes painted bike planter and gourd bird houses, painted tiles, and sunshine sculpture
My bike’s shift lever (lower, blurry foreground) leaning against “patriotic skeletons” #yardart on Leslie Ave in the Del Ray hood of Alexandria VA
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