As part of the North American Handmade Bicycle Show coming to Indianapolis this weekend, ArtBike! will be featured in the Mass Ave and Fountain Square areas.
It is an exhibition that marries bicycles and art in the form of street art, sculpture and installation art.
“It’s kind of hard to explain how beautiful these things are,” said Laura Brennan, account coordinator for O2 Sports Marketing. “They’re so pretty and you can tell that these people put so much work into them. . . . There’s no trick, there’s no hook. It’s bicycling, it’s art.”
The handmade works of cycling art will be displayed in six galleries.
One bike, made from bamboo …Â More info
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