This Land is Our Land

Art Bike

Metro Nashville is home to over 150,000 immigrants, representing over 140 languages. More than 12% of Nashville's population is foreign-born. The goal with this project was to celebrate the often-overlooked diversity of Nashville with a design that highlights the way that a bike can connect all across cultures. A bike connects neighborhoods, communities, and reaches everyone regardless, of income, class, or language barriers. 

This project is a part of the “Art, Books, and Bikes for All” project, in partnership with Nashville Public Library, Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville, supported by a Better Bike Share Partnership Mini-grant.

This initiative has allowed BCycle and the city of Nashville to prioritize community access and engagement by expanding the “Art, Books & Bike for All” program with free BCycle passes to all 21 library branches, sharing 10 bike routes.

“Being an “American” is a feeling. Regardless of immigration status, you decide and –therefore are– an American. Arriving in the summer of ‘98, I immediately caught that feeling. 

This bike goes out to all of us Americans. Its color palette reflects the flags of the birth nations of the over 150,000 foreign-born Nashvillians.“