#PublicArtFinder FS2023 Pointless Prize

[Boomer Cycles]

How to play #PublicArtFinder:

1. RIDE your bike AT LEAST 10 MILES and share on this thread the discovery of any art form (loosely defined: you know it when you see it) that is readily accessible to the general public. Only one art form allowed per 10+mile ride. If you want to discover more art, then start a new ride on Strava and post another art find. Rides less than 10 miles do not count.

2. POST a picture [using Small resolution] on this thread of your art find with some or all of YOUR BIKE IN IT. Pics that don’t include your bike will not count. Adding your pic to your Strava ride helps w/ verification, but does not substitute for posting on this thread.

3. #Publicartfinder pics must be POSTED ON THE DAY of the ride just like #scavhunt.

4. Include the LOCATION of your art find so that others may find it, too.

5. Use HASHTAG #publicartfinder (not CaSe SeNsItIvE) in your Strava Ride title so that it will appear on the FS2023 #publicartfinder leaderboard https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/publicartfinder I will sweep this leaderboard
for data periodically to feed the official #publicartfinder scoreboard found here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ob3HlhU34D4xrtbttsDIAu2knT8MOIZQ2EcAr6s5YF0/edit#gid=358841852

6. FOLLOW ME (Boomer Cycles) on Strava so that I can verify your #publicartfinder rides.

Entries will be judged by some faceless cabal on subjective criteria that may include use of creative objects (like your bike interacting w/ an art form), composition, light, artistic flair, witty captions, great stories, # of quality submissions, or # likes, kudos or dislikes, and bonus points. In the event of a tie, efficacy rules: most art discoveries/least amount of miles wins.

If you played #publicartfinder in years past, go find some New2U art!

Now go Ride and Seek some public art ;-

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[Rod Smith]

[Rod Smith]

I always wondered what this was about. I still do but I know a little bit more about it after I finally stopped and took a closer look. Then my next door neighbor happened by and I learned a little more about him too! And I have #publicartfinder game to blame, er I mean thank, for that.

[Rod Smith]

Crossroads by Miss Chelove, 2014

[Indiana]

1/15 Woodridge Library, Hamlin St and Rhode island Avenue NE DC
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library got a new window wrapping late last year, scene from The Lion and the Mouse, by Jerry Pinkney, bike bags for returning books

[Serdar]

I found two New2Me public art installations on a 50-mile ride to and from Maryland Meadworks today. https://www.strava.com/activities/8398763059

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New2Me public art – Fern Pull on the corner of H Str and New Jersey Ave SE

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Public art on the trail near Melrose Park in Hyattsville and Jan waving her hand

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

1/15/2023
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Nokomis by Danny Lane is located in Reston Town Center in the green space bounded by Reston Pkwy and Presidents St, and New Dominion Pkwy and Market St. Lane says he titled the piece “after the legendary Â…mythological, Algonquin, grandmother of Nanabozh. They are the key players in the Algonquin/ Powhatan creation myth. The sculpture certainly has a feminine presence and after searching I chose to localize the title by linking to the Algonquin tribe who were/are from the region, along with the Powhatans.” More about this piece of public art in Reston: https://publicartreston.org/project/untitled-3/

[Nadine]

1/15/23

I shoulda written down the intersection but….. This cool structure is in DC – I wanna say NE but the truth is [emoji848][emoji1744] Rod showed it to me first, but not today. It looks really cool on live photo cuz the whole thing changes with the wind.

[Nadine]

1/15/23

Maybe I shoulda gotten cleaner pic of Harper Matsuyama’s mural on the front of Meadworks – but I kinda like how it blends in with the people

[Nadine]

Art on the bottom of the bridge by the DC rei, taken from the MBT.

I decided on the interests of getting a closer pic to use the [emoji605] on the traffic sign on the left rather than the bikes of my companions underneath it as planned

[LGRides]

1/16/23

Washington Plaza, Reston

This isn’t too literal, is it? [emoji28]

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[consularrider]

#PublicArtFinder – 1/16/2023 – No more MLK, Jr mural in Anacostia.

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Instead, around the corner at 2929 Martin Luther King Jr Ave was this moving tribute to Nyiah Courtney by Aniekan Udofia

[Rod Smith]

There’s at least one MLK mural in Anacostia but you’re in Congress Heights, Chris! Good find though!

[Rod Smith]

Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Martin Luther King Jr, and Rosa Parks. Left of Duke is the Atlas Theater which was a movie theater but he may have played there. It’s now the Atlas Performing Arts Center. To the right of Rosa is a bus at Union Station.

[Rod Smith]

[Rod Smith]

K and 24th NW

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