Go to Portland Open Studios By Bike

For the past four years Portland Open Studios had an incentive program to get visitors to go by bike. Visitors who went to atleast 5 studios by bike were able to enter a drawing with a prize of a bicycle painted by a Portland Open Studios artist. Although there will not be a raffle this year we still want to encourage you to go by bike.

Miriam Badyrika painting the 2006 bike

Miriam Badyrka was as happy about being selected to paint the 2006  prize bike as the winner was about winning it. Normally a painter on flat canvas, Badyrka was eager to try painting her highly colored intertwining shapes on the cylindrical surfaces of a bike. The motif for this painted bike evolved from the rememberance of the classic children’s book, “The Story About Ping”, by Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese, In this book, a duck lives on a boat with wise eyes painted on it so it never loses its way.  It is a lovely talisman to give to the winner of the bike, Benjamin Heiken, whose major mode of transportation is a bicycle. Bicycles fill her basement and her life. In her college days she was on the bicycle racing team. Now she is a more leisurely rider. This is the third time Badyrka has participated in Portland Open Studios.

Benjamin Heiken has had a lucky year.   Not only did he win the bicycle  he also won one of the scholarships to participate in Portland Open Studios. 

For the past 4 years Portland Open Studios encouraged visitors to the studios to Go By Bike by having a raffle for an artist painted bike. Only those who went to at least 5 studios by bike were able to enter the drawing.  Each year the winner selected which Portland Studios artist would paint the bike, with the image of the painted bicycle appearing in the following year’s Tour Guide.  

This program was made possible by the generosity of Weir’s Cyclery in St Johns and Acme Paint Shop 

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