#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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[Indiana]

1/7 R &6 NW DC storm drains run to the Chesapeake Bay, nice reminder in art
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(Apologies for speed photo taken at red light)

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

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The Vienna Art Society celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2019 with 42 artists benches. Each bench was painted with a unique, original artwork by a VAS volunteer artist. Although most of the benches were auctioned off to raise money for VAS, several of them remain in various locations in downtown Vienna. This one is located in front of the Freeman Store and Museum on Church St SE, just north of where the W&OD crosses.

[Boomer Cycles]

@bikesnick 221879 wrote:

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Prospect Street NW, Georgetown, DC
See this Georgetown Voice link for more and DCist for the controversy with the historic board.

2 extra points!

1. This one of the coolest pieces of public art in DC, IMO, and I’m glad to see that it is still there. When it was first installed (in the before pandemic times), some of the neighbors complained and lobbied city reps to have it banned. Good to see that the artist prevailed!

2. You included address, backstory and hyperlinks, clap [emoji1376]

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[Boomer Cycles]

@karenbikes2@gmail.com 221906 wrote:

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The Vienna Art Society celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2019 with 42 artists benches. Each bench was painted with a unique, original artwork by a VAS volunteer artist. Although most of the benches were auctioned off to raise money for VAS, several of them remain in various locations in downtown Vienna. This one is located in front of the Freeman Store and Museum on Church St SE, just north of where the W&OD crosses.

+1 Extra point for backstory (and precise location, too;-)

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[cvcalhoun]

1/8/2023
I found this whimsical yard art at the corner of Ewing and Johnson Streets in Bethesda.

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[bikesnick]

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A beautiful brick pyramid with smooth sides on the front lawn of a house on Riley Street in Falls Church.
(I will try to speak with the owner about the details.)

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

For a number of years, the South Lakes HS STEAM Team has created and installed a sculpture atop the spillway in Lake Thoreau (at the South Lakes Drive end) in Reston. The current sculpture (upper right corner of the photo, hard to get a larger image and still get my bike in the photo!) is titled “Cerebral.” More about this project, including videos of its installation, and the STEAM Team statement about the sculpture here: https://publicartreston.org/project/cerebral/
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[Serdar]

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New2Me art behind Taco Bamba at 164 Maple Ave W in Vienna is a mural about W&OD Trail. The mural is big; so I had to take a panorama shot. My bike is in the center.
https://www.strava.com/activities/8360882336

[LGRides]

1/8/23

The Patio @ Hotel Washington, 15th St DC

[Rod Smith]

Fall by Lulo under the Whitney Young Memorial Bridge, ART East, Washington DC
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[Rod Smith]

I saw a lot of art in Anacostia today. This was probably the least interesting piece but it was huge, colorful, well executed and I’d never seen it before. So it’s the one I stopped to photograph. Ketcham Elementary School.
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[consularrider]

#PublicArtFinder – 1/8/2023 – Granite Acroterion

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Originally on the Abbey Mausoleum by ANC, but now in front of the Arlington County Westover Branch Library, corner of McKinley Rd and Washington Blvd

[Indiana]

1/8 mural by Chris Pyrate “Fake Florist” outside Little Miner Taco @ 4308 Rhode Island Ave, Brentwood, MD 20722[ATTACH=CONFIG]29471[/ATTACH]
You can see his Cherry blossom motif around DC and on Washington Wizards apparel this season: https://www.nba.com/wizards/news/wizards-unveil-cherry-blossom-inspired-collections-and-designs

[bikingjenn]

1/8/23 Art on the bike path -PinellasBike Path is super nice!
That’s my rental for the next few days…

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[Robbie Rob]

Art found at 1201 N. Royal Street, Alexandria on Saturday, 1/7/23:
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