#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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[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

1/5/24 (Submitted just to play along but as the sponsor I’m not in the competition!)

The bronze statue “Taking Flight” at the Vienna Community Center was installed in 2017 in honor of the late Mayor Jane Seeman and local volunteers.

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

1/4/24 (Submitted just to play along but as the sponsor I’m not in the competition!)

Christmas display in front of Partlow’s just off the W&OD in Ashburn

[Indiana]

Catch-up

1/4 mural on MBT NE DC. I watched part of it be painted and the artist came back the next day to paint over where it had been tagged. Anyone know why some murals are tagged and others left alone?

1/5 The Hellmingo lawn art 18th St NE DC near Hamlin. She looked pretty cool at Burning Man: https://amoebaartscollective.com/

 

 

1/6 Cloud Rain by Kyungmi Shin at Brookland Middle School/Turkey Thicket NE DC

The description is pretty cool about how it lights up, though since I arrived before the storm I can’t verify if the lights change with different water levels: “This shade structure is an abstraction of cloud and rain. It features 6 circular disks cut with words describing the various states of water in the water cycle. Each disk is supported by a slanted column mimicking the raindrops by its angle and the LED lights embedded in the column. The LED light is controlled by the water tank level gauge and functions as an indicator for the storm water level in the storage tank located underneath the artwork site.” (From https://www.shingraystudio.com/cloud-rain)

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

Catching Up with #publicartfinder Posts for the Time the Forum was Down

Since there still seem to be some remaining glitches with the new forum, I’ll take late entries until all the glitches have been worked out, as long as you’ve posted your art find is posted to Strava with the #publicartfinder tag.

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

(Submitted just to play along but as the sponsor I’m not in the competition!)

[consularrider]

#publicartfinder – 01/07/2024

– Marine Corps War Memorial

[Kbikeva]

1/7/24

So many great public art pieces today on my ride! But the last time I was here this one was incomplete, so I purposefully rode back to see it and use it on my post. This artist, Adrian Lopez, specializes in these “arms out wide” paintings. Many of them are on street corners where residential walls provide canvases begging for adornment.

[cvcalhoun]

1/7/24

“Serve”  from the William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center, 5220 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20011

[Rod Smith]

Art to GoGo
Marion Barry Ave SE

[LhasaCM]

1/7/2024 – Corporate lawn art in Crystal City

[Indiana]

1/7 NoMa in Space by Andrea Limauro on MBT NE DC near Tanner Park https://www.instagram.com/andrealimauro/p/CzC9e4yN0oQ/?img_index=1

[Sophie CW]

Bridge over Metro track painted by local Brookland resident:

[celestesollod]

Mark Acton’s Tree Stump carvings in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, are meant to evoke the Druids of the park’s name. Two of them are around the reservoir in the southern part of the park.

[Laurie E.]

Public Art Finder Mural, Clinton, MD 1-5-24

 

[Laurie E.]

PublicArtFinder Mural, Clinton, MD. 1-5-24

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