In an effort to bring art and biking together, the Mural Arts Program and the Better Bike Share Partnership joined forces to create “Riding Murals,” an initiative in which local students created unique designs for 10 Indego bikes.

A total of 20 students from the Laura W. Waring Elementary School attended a six-week course led by artist Candy Coated and Mural Arts educator Sarah Folger, to learn techniques in color mixing, sticker and stencil making, pattern making and layering techniques.

Basing their designs around the themes of “sharing” and “bikes,” the course guided students to think about their experiences riding bicycles, their experiences sharing with others, and how certain shapes and colors work together to convey these experiences. The colorful, patterned artwork produced by the students was then turned into wraps, or covers, for the 10 Indego bikes that hit the streets of Philadelphia on Monday.

“In celebration of this effort Philadelphians are encouraged to Tweet and Instagram photos of the specially wrapped bikes using the hashtag #ridingmurals. There will be a month-long social media contest filled with prizes from our partners,” the program announced.

The initiative was funded by the JPB Foundation, and made possible by a partnership between the Mural Arts Program, the Mayor’s Office of Transportation & Utilities, and the Better Bike Share Partnership. Indego was launched last April and since then, according to the program, more than 145,000 Indego bike rides have been riden between 70 stations across the city.