Kinetic Sculpture Race
FIFI, everyone's favorite Giant Pink Poodle!
AVAM's 14th Annual Kinetic Sculpture Race is May 5, 2012!
From the American Visionary Art Museum - A race of wacky, imaginative, TOTALLY HUMAN POWERED WORKS OF ART DESIGNED TO TRAVEL ON LAND, THROUGH MUD, AND OVER DEEP HARBOR WATERS constructed out of used bicycles, gears, and parts, created by a lunatic genius who tinkers around in the garage or backyard (Do you know this person?) The machines can be simple, small crafts, piloted by only one brave soul, or they can be over 50 feet long, extremely well-engineered, sophisticated vehicles powered by a team of pilots. (More)
Pilots (Kinetinauts) compete for the most coveted MEDIOCRE AWARD (finishes right in the middle) and the highly prized NEXT-TO-THE-LAST AWARD (finishes, well, next to last) and serious prizes including ART and ENGINEERING. Have you got The Right Stuff? Now searching for KINETINAUTS, PIT CREW, ARTISTS, ENGINEERS, VOLUNTEERS, TEACHER + STUDENT TEAMS, TEAM SPONSORS. Visit kineticbaltimore.com for more inspiration, race rules, lore, and more!
AVAM's Lucky 13th Annual Kinetic Sculpture Race video coverage by Associated Press
Hot off the press - first featured on Yahoo! News, now syndicated on Youtube - the Associated Press video coverage of AVAM's Lucky 13th Annual Kinetic Sculpture Race: Pink poodle, bobbing bird take on city's streets - catch all your favorite Kinetic vehicles & pilots competeing for the glory! And BIG congrats to all this year's Winners, especially 2011 Grand Mediocre East Coast Champions PLATYPUS, Ankh-ers Away (Art Award), Am-Ish Sin Caballo (Engineering), Go Ask Alice (People's Choice), and all the other winner too! Special thanks to all our participants, sponsors, volunteers, judges, spectators, our fair city of Baltimore & the Baltimore Police, Federal Hill Park & Patterson Park, and of course Kinetic Baltimore! Keep posted to this site & kineticbaltimore.com for more photos & race re-caps coming soon.
AVAM would like to thank the following sponsors for their support of the 2011 Kinetic Sculpture Race: The Francis Goelet Charitable Trusts, Centre at Golden Ring, and J4P Associates.