#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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[cvcalhoun]

2/9/24 “Inspire,” by the Rock Creek Trail just south of Cedar Lane. Part of the rear basket of my bike is sticking out from behind, on the right side.)

[Kbikeva]

2/9/24. Skate park sculpture in Leesburg

 

[bikesnick]

2/9/2024 – a tin man

DS Metal Works (Gordon Road, Falls Chruch, VA)

[LhasaCM]

2/9/2024 – The mural alongside the Fort Totten transfer station and MBT extension

[CCRider50]

2/9/24 Sundial, Washington Harbour 

[Nadine]

😆@consularrider I love the if pigs could fly art

[Nadine]

2/9/24

Art on a store in Founders Row in Falls Church va

[Indiana]

2/9 art in anticipation for this weekend’s big game, aka Fluff v Ruff aka The Puppy Bowl, along MBT across from Tanner Park, NoMa NE DC

[Boomer Cycles]

George Mason Memorial, Tidal Basin in DC, author of the VA Commonwealth bill of rights which serve as the model later adopted by the Founding Fathers

[cvcalhoun]

2/10/24

Mural, 14th and Chapin streets NW.

[LhasaCM]

2/10/2024 – A mural of doors around the door on the side of the (now closed) Rock Creek Market at the corner of Rock Creek Church and Warder/7th NW

[consularrider]

#publicartfinder – 2/10/2024 – Westover Beer Garden and Market on Washington Blvd

[Kbikeva]

2/10/2024  It took me three separate rides to get to 10 today. Busy with teaching in Woodbridge. But I managed, and my treat to myself was to spin down to the Suffragette Memorial at Occoquan Regional Park. And then I treated myself to that lovely climb back UP the hill to the Workhouse where I had parked. 🙂

[Laurie E.]

2/10/24  Public Art Finder – Art in front of the Tucker Road Ice Rink

[T_Pain]

#PublicArtFinder 2/10/24 – Hand sculpture at National Harbor, MD

[Author]

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