{"id":122662,"date":"2025-09-05T20:41:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T20:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/122662\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T20:41:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T20:41:05","slug":"get-in-the-game-sports-art-culture-exhibition-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/122662\/","title":{"rendered":"Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture Exhibition at\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

USA Cycling is excited to announce its collaboration with\u00a0Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art<\/a>. The museum will host the\u00a0Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture<\/a> exhibition from September 13, 2025, to January 26, 2026, where three of USA Cycling\u2019s National Team bikes will be on display in addition to the museum\u2019s world-class collection of American art and stunning architecture.<\/p>\n

Get in the\u00a0Game explores sports in all their glory, highlighting how the discipline, power, and sacrifice of athletes have inspired artistic and technological innovation\u2014through paintings, sculpture, photographs, sports equipment, and more. The exhibition will feature bikes from USA Cycling athletes Christopher Blevins, Clara Honsinger, and the Women\u2019s Team Pursuit Olympic Champions.<\/p>\n

The first bike on display will be a mountain bike ridden by two-time Olympian and World Champion Christopher Blevins. Currently leading the 2025 World Cup Overall Standings, Blevins is showcasing his limited-edition Specialized Epic from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. This bike marked a historic moment for Blevins, as it was the one he competed on at his first Olympic Games, where he placed 14th as the only American man in the field.<\/p>\n

Being part of this exhibition is especially meaningful for Blevins, as his great-grandfather, John Singleton Copley, is also featured in the Crystal Bridges\u2019 permanent collection. Copley (1738-1815) was known for his colonial-era portraits of figures such as Paul Revere, John Hancock, and Samuel Adams, and his work has long been a staple in the museum\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n

“My Olympic bike represents a milestone in my career, but seeing it here at Crystal Bridges, where my great (x4) grandfather\u2019s work also hangs, gives it new meaning,\u201d said Blevins. \u201cIt shows how both sports and art can outlast a single moment \u2014 bringing people together, strengthening community, and inspiring the next generation.”<\/p>\n

Many cycling fans were first introduced to Northwest Arkansas in 2022, when the UCI Cyclocross World Championships came to Centennial Park in Fayetteville. One of the women leading that team was four-time Cyclocross National Champion Clara Honsinger, whose name will go down in history as one of the best U.S. cyclocross racers. Her custom-painted Liv Brava cyclocross bike will be on display at the museum\u2014the same bike she rode at her final World Championships in T\u00e1bor, Czech Republic, in 2024, where she placed eighth. USA Cycling is excited to return to Centennial Park this December for the 2025 Cyclocross National Championships.<\/p>\n

Adding to the Olympic spirit, the Women\u2019s Team Pursuit Olympic Gold medal-winning bike will also be on display. Designed and engineered specifically for USA Cycling\u2019s Olympic Track Team, the Canyon Speedmax Track bike was raced by Chloe Dygert, Kristen Faulkner, Jennifer Valente, and Lily Williams, who went on to set a time of 4:04.306 to win the United States\u2019 first-ever Gold medal in the Women\u2019s Team Pursuit at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Not only did the bike help rewrite the history books, but the team\u2019s race-winning strategy also earned USA Cycling the\u00a02025 INFORMS Edleman Award<\/a> for excellence in modeling and operations research.<\/p>\n

The exhibition opens to the public on Saturday, September 13, with a\u00a0free celebration<\/a> from 10 AM to 3 PM featuring interactive activities, performances, and food. Tickets to the Get in the Game exhibition are $15, and free for Crystal Bridges members, SNAP participants, veterans, and adults and youth 18 and under. USA Cycling encourages the cycling community to view the bikes in person during\u00a0Big Sugar Week<\/a> in Bentonville (October 12-18) or during the\u00a02025 USA Cycling Cyclocross National Championships<\/a> (December 10-14) in Fayetteville.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture is organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition is curated by Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design SFMOMA; Seph Rodney, independent curator and writer; and Katy Siegel, Curator-at-Large, Research & Special Program Initiatives, SFMOMA. The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art presentation is curated by Austen Barron Bailly, Chief Curator, and Laura Pratt, Manager, Curatorial Affairs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The exhibition\u2019s National Tour Sponsor is Bank of America. Additional support is provided by The Coca-Cola Company, Shelby and Frederick Gans, Scholastic, Stout Executive, Blakeman\u2019s Fine Jewelry, Willie and Brenda Godwin, Donna and Mack McLarty, Northwest Arkansas Naturals, Sue and Charles Redfield, Jim Smith and Rebecca Hurst | Smith Hurst, PLC, Jim and Susan Von Gremp, Tony Waller, Deborah Wright, and Hunter and Jennifer Yuracheck.<\/p>\n

ABOUT CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART (crystalbridges.org)<\/p>\n

The mission of\u00a0Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art<\/a>\u00a0is to welcome all to celebrate the American spirit in a setting that unites the power of art with the beauty of nature. Since opening in 2011, the museum has welcomed more than 14 million visitors across its spaces, with no cost for admission. Crystal Bridges was founded in 2005 as a non-profit charitable organization by arts patron and philanthropist,\u00a0Alice Walton<\/a>. The\u00a0collection spans five centuries of American masterworks<\/a>\u00a0from early American to current day and is enhanced by\u00a0temporary exhibitions<\/a>. The museum is nestled on 134 acres of Ozark landscape and was designed by the world-renowned\u00a0Safdie Architects<\/a>. A rare\u00a0Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house<\/a>\u00a0was preserved and relocated to the museum grounds in 2015. Crystal Bridges offers\u00a0public programs \u00a0<\/a>including lectures, performances, classes, and teacher development opportunities. Some 478,375 school children have participated in the\u00a0Willard and Pat Walker School Visit program<\/a>, which provides educational experiences for school groups at no cost to the schools. Additional museum amenities include a\u00a0restaurant<\/a>,\u00a0gift store<\/a>,\u00a0library<\/a>, and five miles of art and walking trails. In February 2020, the museum opened\u00a0the Momentary<\/a>\u00a0in Downtown Bentonville (507 SE E Street), conceived as a platform for the art, food, and music of our time. In 2026, Crystal Bridges will complete a 114,000 square foot expansion that will allow the museum to expand access for all.<\/p>\n

ABOUT VISIT BENTONVILLE (visitbentonville.com)\u00a0<\/p>\n

Visit Bentonville is funded by the Bentonville Advertising and Promotion Commission which was established in 1996. The commission is supported by a 2% tax on lodging and meeting space and a 1% tax on restaurant and dining establishments. The organization’s mission is to promote Bentonville as a vibrant experience for all, enhancing the quality of life and stimulating economic development that will strengthen our local economy. Visit Bentonville leads the planning of sports, meetings and group tours while also marketing leisure experiences that include arts, cycling, food, film, music and aviation. Visit Bentonville also collaborates with tourism offices throughout the state of Arkansas to create positive economic impact while increasing tourism amenities for both visitors and residents.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USA Cycling is excited to announce its collaboration with\u00a0Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. The museum will host…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[1163,417,1167,1169,1165,49,48,1172,1173,1171,1175,1179,635,1174,1166,1180,1048,1181,1168,1178,1182,1170,1164,582,1176,82,1177,1184,1183],"class_list":["post-122662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-bicycle","tag-bike","tag-bike-event","tag-bike-mechanic","tag-bike-race","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-coach","tag-coaches","tag-commissaire","tag-criterium","tag-cross-country","tag-cycling","tag-cycling-coach","tag-cycling-event","tag-downhill","tag-events","tag-gravity","tag-mechanic","tag-mountain-bike","tag-national-championship","tag-official","tag-race","tag-racing","tag-road-race","tag-sports","tag-time-trial","tag-us-cycling","tag-usac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}