#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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[CCRider50]

Beverly Farms ES – Potomac 

[cvcalhoun]

1/24/24 At the corner of W. Gude Drive and Picard Avenue, Rockville

[consularrider]

#publicartfinder – 01/24/2024 – Mario’s Pizza House, Wilson Blvd, Ashton Heights

 

[Kbikeva]

1/24/24 yet another Valerie Theberge piece — this one in Herndon.

[Nadine]

1/24/24 grasshopper lawn structure -first time I’ve seen him dressed for winter!

Also wouldja look at the audacity of this dude, holding a ☮️ flag while he eats ladybugs 😆 (better view of the flag on my Strava pix & my flag game post.)

 

[Boomer Cycles]

1/24 – Thing 6 yard art is not long for this world given the Spring-like weather forecast for our area.

[Indiana]

1/24 DC Smokehouse mural

[LhasaCM]

1/24/2024 – Thanks to Google, I now know that this three-sided light in what used to be a fountain in James Monroe Park (20th and Pennsylvania NW) is called Tricorn.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/whats-up-with-the-glowing-box-in-a-park-on-pennsylvania-avenue-nw/2017/01/21/7a3b0522-ddad-11e6-918c-99ede3c8cafa_story.html

 

[Sophie CW]

1/24/2024 – Mural on building on Chapman Ave in Rockville makes me want spring to come sooner.

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

The trash and recycle boxes on the grounds of USGS in Reston have lovely paintings on the sides. Additional photos of several others in my Strava.

[bikesnick]

1/25/2024

lighted panel at West Broad Apartments (301 W Broad St, Falls Church, VA)

[consularrider]

#publicartfinder – 01/25/2024 – Unlabeled sculpture in front of The Rylan on Old Meadow Rd, Tysons

[Boomer Cycles]

1/25 – Del Ray Blocks in South Alexandria VA 

[Kbikeva]

1/25/24

“Simon” by Dewitt Godfrey

 

[Serdar]

New2Me public art

Big mural on the wall of Pacers store in Old Town

 

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