#PublicArtFinder FS2024 Pointless Prize

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I’ve revised rule #3 of the #publicartfinder game to only require posting your art find to your Strava because some of you have been unable to post to the Forum since the migration to a new platform. Posting your photo to the Forum is nice-to-do but optional.

How to play #PublicArtFinder (revised):

1. RIDE your bike AT LEAST 10 MILES, and on that ride, discover any art form (loosely defined: you know it when you see it) readily accessible to the general public. An art find on a ride that’s less than 10 miles does not count, even if you ride multiple rides in a day totaling 10 miles or more.
2. Only 1 art find per day will be counted. (This differs from Freezing Saddles 2023’s game when a player could submit 1 art find per 10-mile ride with multiple 10 mile rides per day.)
3. Share your art find via posting 1 photo to your Strava for the ride on which you discovered it. Posting also to the Forum is nice to do (easy to see all the photos in the contest in one place) but OPTIONAL.
4. All, or some part, of your bike must be in your photo or it will not count!
5. Post your photo ON THE DAY OF THE RIDE.
6. Use HASHTAG #publicartfinder (not CaSe SeNsItIvE) in your Strava Ride title so that it will appear on the FS2024 #publicartfinder leader board, which you can find here:
https://freezingsaddles.org/pointless/hashtag/publicartfinder
I will sweep this leader board for data periodically to feed the official #publicartfinder scorecard found here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ob3HlhU34D4xrtbttsDIAu2knT8MOIZQ2EcAr6s5YF0/edit#gid=1975917300
7. Friends of FS2024 are welcome to post, but only registered participants can win prizes.
8. Follow me on Strava (Karen Hass, https://www.strava.com/athletes/38633292) so I can follow you back and verify that your #publicartfinder rides meet all the rules.

The location of your art find is nice to include with the photo so that others may find it too. A description of the art (artist, medium, circumstances for it’s creation, etc.) is also nice.

One point will be awarded for each entry that meets all the criteria above. Entries will be judged by some faceless cabal, and may be awarded additional points based on subjective criteria such as use of creative objects (like your bike interacting with your art find), composition, light, artistic flair, witty captions, great stories, # of quality submissions, # likes/kudos/dislikes, etc. In the event of a tie, efficacy rules: most art discoveries/least # of miles will win.

Now go find some public art!

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[LhasaCM]

1/14/2024 – One of the many Art in Bloom cherry blossoms around town, this one is in Franklin Park

Renewal Blossom

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1/14/24 One of several murals on the side wall of Whole Foods in Vienna

[Indiana]

1/14 you don’t know what it’s like to find a place where YOU BELONG – art by @Craigandkarl, 14th and Newton NW DC

https://photos.app.goo.gl/mXf3rjX4Bc6BKM2J9

[Boomer Cycles]

The Community Preschool of the Palisades Cathedral Ave corner w/ McArthur Blvd, NE DC

[Kbikeva]

1/14/24

public art at the fire station

Firebird by Greg Reiche is a kinetic glass sculpture made of 1000 pieces of glass and is inspired by a firefighters hook.

[Sophie CW]

1/14/24 – “Service Road” by David Hess installed at the Gude Drive Maintenance Facility in Rockville.

[cvcalhoun]

1/14/24 “Aspiration Literature” from the bridge the Rock Creek Trail goes over just before the Lincoln Memorial.  A gift from the people of Italy to the people of the United States, 1950.

[LhasaCM]

1/15/2024 – An MLK Mural courtesy of DC Parks and Rec on the side of a DC Housing Authority building near the King Greenleaf Community Center

[Joan]

1/15/24 MLK day snowy Air Force globe statue in courthouse/clarendon

 

[cvcalhoun]

1/15/24 – in front of Suburban Hospital

[Boomer Cycles]

MLK day – Lawn Sculpture, East Building, National Gallery of Art 

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An extra point to you, @LhasaCM, for finding MLK public art on 1/15/24, MLK Day!

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An extra point to you, @cvcalhoun, for this gorgeous photo on 1/9/24!

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

01/16/24 Mural on the side of one of the parking garages in Reston Town Center. (Doesn’t count in the game since I’m the sponsor, just having fun playing along!)

[Boomer Cycles]

1/16 – Bike Art, Trader Joe’s parking garage, Old Town Alexandria VA 

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