#PublicArtFinder FS2024 Pointless Prize

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

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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[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

@cvcalhoun, I don’t update the spreadsheet every day, and I don’t usually get the entire spreadsheet updated on any given day. (I do have a system for tracking where I am with my updates.) Thanks for your message because it makes me realize how confusing it can be for anyone checking the spreadsheet to know when it was last updated. I’ll try to work on addressing that this weekend.

[LhasaCM]

1/21/2024 – This normally mobile art (would’ve also worked for the ScavHunt “thing”)  has been parked in Adams Morgan for a while due to the weather.

[Serdar]

New2Me art
Rocklands Barbeque & Grilling Company at 3471 Washington Blvd, Arlington

[CCRider50]

C&O Towpath Lockhouse #10 

[Kbikeva]

1/21/24

this is my favorite sculpture in Reston. Called Convergence, it is by Zachary Oxman. Usually I think the figure looks as if he’s thinking. Today he just looks flipping cold.

[cvcalhoun]

1/21/24

“Single Form” is a half-sized version of the one in front of the United Nations Building in New York, which symbolizes the singleness of devotion to the zealous pursuit of peace of the late Secretary General, Dag Hammarsjkold. At The Johns University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

[celestesollod]

1/21/24

“Equilibrium” by Amy Sherald (who also painted a portrait of Michelle Obama that hangs in the National Portrait Gallery)

Link to unveiling of the work: https://fb.watch/pJo_LW-JWE/

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

@CCRider50 Did you mean to post this to #publicartfinder?

[Joan]

1/21/23 painted rain barrel in central library demonstration garden.

[Boomer Cycles]

1/21 sculpture outside the Phillips Collection on 21st St NW, DC near to DuPont Circle 

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

1/21/24

One of the new murals on the outside of Hunters Woods Elementary School in Reston.

[Nadine]

1/21/24 public art in Ballston

<span style=”-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);”>I chose this pic cuz you can set some of the colors in the structure, in this one. I posted the pic of the post by it describing what it is to my Strava feed </span>

[consularrider]

#publicartfinder – 01/22/2024 – Commercial art, Jet’s Pizza corner of Commonwealth and E Glebe, West Potomac (?), Alexandria.  Couldn’t get a slice for the pizzaneuring pp at 7:45 AM

[Kbikeva]

1/22/24

A decorative garden fence in Reston.

[Joan]

1/22/24 Ephemeral art: Igloo in Fields Park

[Author]

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