#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]

2/25/2024 – One half of the mural on the outside of the 2 New Heights Child Development Center on Blair Road in NW DC.

[cvcalhoun]

2/25/24

Stained glass windows from Washington Hebrew Congregation.

[Sophie CW]

2/25/24 – Found random art outside Grail Arthouse, a minority-owned and operated art gallery.

[Boomer Cycles]

2/25 – All Things Come in Threes, Duncan Branch Library, Alexandria VA

A group of three cast concrete pillars by Marlin Lord and a dedicatory plaque. The rectangular pillars are staggered in plan and vary in height. The group is mounted on a semi-circular pad. This sculpture was originally installed concurrent with the 1967 Mount Vernon Community School addition and de-installed in 2005 to make room for another renovation. A new sculpture was recreated and installed in front of the library in 2012.

 

[Indiana]

2/25 art and graffiti and graffiti and art under the Southeast freeway (bike handle bit in foreground)

[CCRider50]

2/25 Revolutionary War era tree MoCo 

[cvcalhoun]

2/26/24

Bees at the Great Ape House of the National Zoo.

[LeftyLaura]

2/26/24 new art for me

[LeftyLaura]

2/26/24 new art for me,  know it doesn’t count but wanted to share

[LhasaCM]

2/26/2024 – The covered outdoor gathering space at Chevy Chase Lake is a stained glass trolley car

[Boomer Cycles]

2/26 – Reach for Forests, Kennedy Center, DC 

[Laurie E.]

2/26/24  #publicartfinder

Duke Ellington by the Howard Theater in NW, DC.

[Indiana]

2/26 changing projected art K St underpass NoMa DC

[bikingjenn]

2/27/24 Lichtenstein

Brushstroke
Roy Lichtenstein
1996-97, painted aluminum, 32’ high
Lent by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Roy Lichtenstein burst on the art scene in the early 1960s with paintings inspired by comic books; today they look disarming and playful, but when new, they seemed shockingly irreverent. For three decades, he amusingly used an isolated brushstroke as the emblem of high art. Then Lichtenstein created his first Brushstrokesculptures, giving fluid “paint” a free-standing physical presence. The monumentality of this example evokes the heroism of the abstract expressionist painters, while its rapid calligraphic energy belies its static form. Retrieved from: https://www.kennedy-center.org/reach/art-at-the-reach/ on 2/27/24 at 8:30pm

[Nadine]

2/27/24 rainbow lights on tree

These lights are are stunning irl – it was hard to capture. Probably better in the dark.

[Author]

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