#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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[Laurie E.]

3/14/24 – #publicartfinder

Globe of the world – found at the Headquarters of the Seafarers International Union in Suitland, MD

[cvcalhoun]

“Color Play” by Stephen Canneto at the Village Green in Fallsgrove. (And I’m pretty sure you can see the bike in this photo!)

[consularrider]

#publicartfinder – 3/15/2024 – Yard art on 22nd St N in Highland Park.  I like these kinetic wind sculptures a and then there’s the terrier’s hind quarters

 

[Kbikeva]

3/15/24  Easter Basket!

[Indiana]

3/15 National Mall and Capitol with Colorectal Cancer awareness exhibit

I think it counts for art and awareness and more picturesque than the more traditional art from the ride today. I lost my father to colorectal cancer in 2022 so it’s extra meaningful to me. Get your colonoscopy as recommended!

[LhasaCM]

3/15/2024 – A simple mural on the outside of Old Town Books (Alexandria)

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

3/15 National Mall and Capitol with Colorectal Cancer awareness exhibit

I think it counts for art and awareness and more picturesque than the more traditional art from the ride today. I lost my father to colorectal cancer in 2022 so it’s extra meaningful to me. Get your colonoscopy as recommended!

@indiana I love the sentiment behind your choice of this photo for #publicartfinder and I agree that this is art. Unfortunately your bike is not in the photo 🙁 Your bike is, however, in another photo of a large sculpture on your Strava post which would count.

[cvcalhoun]

3/16/24

Because it seemed disrespectful to bring my bike onto the grounds of the Holocaust Museum, my bike is WAY in the back. It can be seen between the sculpture up front and a second sculpture (that looks like a rock), but you may have to blow up the photo to see it. The easiest part to see is my yellow helmet, which is hung from a handlebar.

[cvcalhoun]

This is not an entry — only verification that my bike is in the above picture.

[LhasaCM]

3/16/2024 – A mural on the side of the 7-Eleven at the corner of Wilson and Quinn

[consularrider]

#publicartfinder – 3/16 – 2024 – West wall of Classic Cleaners, Birch & Broad (formerly Falls Plaza), on W Broad St, Falls Church

[celestesollod]

3/15/24
Planet Walk on the B&A trail. Signs marking each planet’s relative distance along the trail stretch about 5 miles. This is the sun.

[Kbikeva]

3/16/24 baubles or bubbles?

[Boomer Cycles]

@lhasaCM that is an extremely hard mural to photograph as cars are almost always parked in front of it (illegally) as people run into that 7-Eleven.

3/16/2024 – A mural on the side of the 7-Eleven at the corner of Wilson and Quinn

[Boomer Cycles]

3/16 – “Speak Your Dreams into Existence!” mural on 5th St NE & Florida Ave, Union Market, Washington DC

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