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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1/4/25
The Grinch #new2me pop up #yardart – “Holiday Card Lane” (aka 300th block of E Luray Ave) in Del Ray hood of Alexandria VA
#publicartfinder 1/1/2025 – Tour de Kinsey, Alfred C Kinsey statue between Myers Hall and the Chemistry Building. Dr. Alfred Charles Kinsey was an American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist. In 1947, he founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, which is now known as the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University.
1/4/25 Sculpture outside Vienna Community Center. Especially love this because I’m a big reader and love that the sculpture implies that the little girls is setting off in flight from her tower of books. Flights of imagination and all that. (Quick Google search says it is actually called “Taking Flight” and was installed in 2017 in honor of a late mayor of Vienna)
1/4 Windom Road Barrier Park sculpture
Stumbled upon this one in the middle of the road, following the direction of the wind. Apparently it was erected in 2024
https://www.northbrentwood.com/windomroadbarrier
1-05-25 BELIEVE
#new2me seasonal pop up #yardart, “Holiday Card Lane”, corner Wayne St of & E Luray Ave, Del Rey hood of Alexandria VA
January 6, a mural painted on the west side abutment of the L36N railway bridge at the edge of Leuven, Belgium (referenced from Openstreetmap.org). The bike is there, but it blends it with the colorful mural of a racing peloton.
This mural was painted in the summer of 2021 on this particular surface to commemorate the 2021 UCI Road Racing World Championship. The course, along with using parts of de Brabantse Pijl (the Brabant Arrow) course, finished with 3 laps in and around Leuven that went up a couple of murderously steep, but short, “walls” on the northern side of Leuven, and that loop passed this point.
#publicartfinder 1/5/2025 – Bloomington’s art work for their standard design for trail signs was particularly appropriate on this snow day.
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