#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!

Topic

[LhasaCM]

1/22/2024 – I love that when they painted a new mural on the new Monroe Street bridge (by the Brookland Metro station) they let neighborhood kids participate and place their hand prints all along the way.  Here’s a small snippet…

[Boomer Cycles]

1/22 – Thing 4, pop-up folk art in my Lynhaven ALX hood 

[cvcalhoun]

1/22/24

Mural at the entrance to Montgomery Mall

[Nadine]

1/22/24 Mother Nature  made this art. My pic sans bike is better (more orange) but you’ll hafta see my Strava post for that. (The bike bit is that black thing in the lower right hand corner – it’s part of a bar mitt) This was at the bottom of the Rosslyn hill, on the Custis trail

I thought I was going out for a shorter ride today – but I guess this was a perk of staying out late 😁🤷🏻

[Indiana]

1/22 mural by Tarika Campbell (@tarkia.art) on the MBT NE DC at Tanner Park

See it in progress: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/09/18/artists-metropolitan-branch-trail-mural-festival/

[Kbikeva]

1/23/24

The snow was too soggy for my bike to stand in it. Otherwise, it would be a bridge between the two hands. Called Mutual Respect, Mutual Understanding, this work by m.l. duffy is at The North County Government Center in Reston. When I first moved here, I thought it was two horse heads looking at each other.

[consularrider]

#publicartfinder – 01/23/2024 – Mural by David de la Mano, N Glebe side of KH Art & Framing at Langston

[Joan]

1/23/24 art on house and hand painted sign in front yard. Similar to many others but this seems more creative and original.

[Boomer Cycles]

1/23 – Thing 5, pop-up folk art in my Lynhaven ALX hood 

[Indiana]

1/23 jumping on the ephemeral folk art bandwagon, this snow person on thee National Mall

If I hadn’t stopped to photograph it I would have missed seeing the live horse in there background that I needed for my bingo board!

[LhasaCM]

1/23/2024 – I’ve always liked this mural underneath the Franklin Street bridge over the train tracks/alongside the MBT – showing how the bridge brings Edgewood and Brookland together.

[cvcalhoun]

1/23/24 Tenleytown mural on the Grant Street side of the temporarily closed Havana Smoke Shop, 4425 Wisconsin Avenue NW

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

@Indiana I like having the Capitol in the background! But not seeing any part of your bike in the photo….

[Nadine]

Km 1/23/24 mural at the Langston school – seen through a chain link fence.

I shoulda gotten down lower so I coulda taken a pic I could zoom all the way in on without cutting my bike out of it

 

[Indiana]

@karenbikes2 You’re right! I was so excited to see a live horse that I rushed to take the photo and forgot to include my bike. If allowed, I’d like to swap in this one from earlier in the ride:

1/23 one of the painted elephant “party animals” near 4th and A SE DC

[Author]

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