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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My bike leaning against the John Ericsson Memorial on Ohio Dr SW DC, (with Venus on the rise).
Ericsson invented the screw propeller and built the iron-clad Monitor during the civil war, enabling boat engines to be placed below the water line and away from cannon fire thus changing naval warfare forever. He then also developed the torpedo.
#publicartfinder 2/22 – On the south side of Patrick Henry Library, corner of Maple & Center, Vienna VA
Feb 23. A little graffiti to turn a concrete casing for some sort of water work a little prettier. Note the subject: a smiling can of spray paint. You could say this is self-ware art. It is located at the bottom of the first of 11 total Cotacols I ascended today, the climb is called Li Voye des Moneys, it is #231 in the official book of Cotacols.
2/23 like @Heidi Rausch saw great street art on 14th St
This is the Buck Hill mural, perhaps still DC’s tallest, at 14th and U Sts NW DC
artist: Joe Pagac
Cool story about the jazz legend who also delivered mail: https://wamu.org/story/19/08/27/d-c-s-newest-and-tallest-mural-honors-a-local-jazz-legend-who-was-also-a-mailman/
Belated 2/23: my bike’s wheel leaning (from the other side of the River) against perhaps the most iconic piece of art in architecture in DC: the Washington Monument (at night;-)
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