#PublicArtFinder FS2024 Pointless Prize
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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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2/23 – The Pentagon 9/11 Memorial has 184 benches for each of those who gave their lives in flight and on the ground that fateful day.
2/23/24 – I’m with kbikeva today – my art is kinda lame, sorry.
I mean they’re nice yard swans, and a cool deer up by the door.
In my defense I’ve been prescribed 10 milers for the next week or 2 🙁
2/23/24 As ai photographed this mural of John Langston, i walked around The corner of the building and there was a Arlington County sign about a scavenger hunt for black history. It had a QR code and a link to a scavenger hunt map and with educational videos including history of the sites on the hunt. Turns out, that this mural is the last of the clues. I plan to visit the sites by bike to learn more about black history in Arlington. I did learn that Miss Sam San Diego is in the mural.
2/24 While keeping and eye out for a sign with a bike on it for #bingo, I did a double take and circled back to look more closely at this sign.
While passing quickly I thought I spotted a woman in a white helmet straddling a bicycle while shopping for produce! Which I sort of did myself stopping at the farmers market on the way home.
(If a sign about art doesn’t qualify as public art, I also photographed a bridge sculpture earlier on the ride).
2/24/2024 – What better way to celebrate public art than a public repository of supplies for people to make their own art!
2/24 – “West Glebe Flow” on new bridge over 4MR connecting Arlington & Alexandria VA, by Vicki Scuri (SiteWorks) with Alexandr Polzin
Materials: Concrete, steel, paint, LED lights
Completed: 2023
2/24)24 #PublicArtFinder
This art can be found on Nee Jersey Ave and was commission with a grant for public art.
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