#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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[CCRider50]

1/6 Einstein – Constitution Ave 

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

Hi Laurie — For your art posts to count in the contest, I need to follow you on Strava (Karen 👚 H) – sent you a request.

[bikesnick]

1/8/2024 #YardArt

16th St N, near N Harrison St in Arlington, VA

[consularrider]

#publicartfinder – 01/08/2024 – Breakfast Art at Lyon Park, corner of Pershing and Fillmore

[LhasaCM]

1/8/2024 – I love the stamp art in the windows at the Postal Square Building, especially at night.

[Nadine]

1/8/24 The Contrabands & Freedmen Cemetery Memorial in ALexandria

 

Contrabands & Freedmen Cemetery Memorial
1001 S. Washington Street
(at the corner of Church Street)
Alexandria, Virginia, 22314

https://www.alexandriava.gov/FreedmenMemorial

[Boomer Cycles]

1/8/24 – OT Alexandria Mural

 

[Boomer Cycles]

Belated from 1/7/24 – Custis/MVT junction in Rosslyn (while Forum was down): 

[Indiana]

1/8 one of the reliefs at the Naval Memorial

[Boomer Cycles]

Belated from 1/6/24 – Graffiti tag or ode to DMV metro area? (while Forum was down): 

[Boomer Cycles]

Belated from 1/5/24 (while Forum was down): Alexandria’s Washington Monument

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

1/8/24 Statue outside Walmart in McLean (This does not count in the game since I’m the sponsor, but I just like to play along!)

[cvcalhoun]

1/8/24 Sculpture on True Foods in Bethesda

[Laurie E.]

PublicArtFinder 1-8-24

Fort Washington, MD

[karenbikes2@gmail.com]

1/9/24 This is on the side of the Monroe St Metro station in Herndon (This does not count in the game since I’m the sponsor, but I just like to play along!)

[Author]

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