#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

[Boomer Cycles]

1/29 – Tribute to Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) a poet, author, composer, abolitionist, suffragist and more—but she is most remembered for writing the lyrics to The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

Old DC Fire Call Box, corner of F & 14th Streets NW DC (in front of the Willard Hotel) 

[LhasaCM]

1/29/2024 – This inspirational mural on the side of Calvert Woodly Fine Wine and Spirts

Hard to get a good shot of the mural and a snippet of my bike with these silly cars in the way, but it has this Hellen Keller quote:

Alone we can do so little…Together we can do so much.

[Kbikeva]

1/29/24

[bikesnick]

1/29/2024 – brick pyramid

This brick pyramid was handmade by the previous homeowner. He made alot of calculations on the shape, apparently to get the most energy. The bricks were formed and baked in a kiln. (Riley St, Falls Church, VA)

[cvcalhoun]

1/29/24 Ship at Glen Echo

[Joan]

1/29/24 love on WOD near Vienna

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

@boomer2u Amazing photo!

[Indiana]

1/29  DC spider, F St NE DC

[consularrider]

#publicartfinder – 01/30/2024 – Transformative Art on Prospect St, NW, Georgetown

[CCRider50]

1/30/24 – George 

[bikesnick]

1/30/2024 – custom mailbox

Mailbox made to look like the house. (Prout Pl, McLean, VA)

[Nadine]

1/30/24 –  li’l owl statue in the boxwood at the American Horticultural Society  

[LhasaCM]

1/30/2024 – Jersey barriers to protect the streatery don’t have to just be plain concrete

[Boomer Cycles]

1/30 – Buddha at the Canal Center Plaza & Sculpture Garden, Old Town Alexandria VA 

[cvcalhoun]

1/30/24

This figure from Strathmore figures she can manage to bike home with her instrument.

[Author]

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