Slideluck Potshow
Encyclopedia
Slideluck Potshow is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to building and strengthening community through food and art. Founded by advertising and editorial photographer, Casey Kelbaugh, in 2000, the New York City-based organization’s events now take place in about forty cities around the world. Slideluck Potshow organizes an average of three events a year in New York City and numerous shows globally.
Slideluck Potshow sponsors exhibitions of artistic works, produced in slideshow format, designed to showcase works created by both novice and established artists, including photojournalists, painters, designers, sculptors, fashion and fine art photographers. These exhibitions create a forum for exposing the general public, artists, and other members of the arts community to new work. Past participants have included: the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
, Elliott Erwitt
, Shepard Fairey
, Chris Buck
, Alec Soth
, Martin Schoeller
, Elinor Carucci
, Alistair Thain, Spencer Tunick
, Nina Berman
, Edward Burtynsky
, Eugene Mirman
, Chuck Close
, Gregory Crewdson
, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin
, and Nadav Kander
.
At each Slideluck Potshow event, the slideshow exhibition is preceded by a couple hours of mingling and dining on a potluck
-style dinner, and then a spectacular slideshow commences.
In the fall of 2003, Kelbaugh relocated to New York City, bringing Slideluck Potshow with him. The first NYC event took packed 150 people into his East Village apartment in early 2004 and the thirst for this type of authentic, accessible and non-commercial gathering was palpable. Every subsequent event took place in a different space in Manhattan, and by 2006, the shows were drawing upwards of one thousand people. It was clear that there was an immediate demand for egalitarian, community-building gatherings such as SLPS. With the help of then producer and co-director Alys Kenny, SLPS also grew quickly in terms of production value, reputation, and reach. As people passed through New York, they brought their experiences at various Slidelucks home with them and requests to do shows began to pour in from cities such as Washington, DC, Los Angeles and Madrid.
Kelbaugh and Kenny spent much of 2007 and 2008 on the road, working with local teams to facilitate launches of SLPS all across Europe, North, Central and South America. Though the demand for Slideluck Potshows only increased, with the crash of the economy, SLPS greatly contracted its growth and focused on building a stable infrastructure by creating The Slideluck Potshow Handbook and furthering community outreach, by launching the Slideluck Youth Initiative.
Slideluck Potshow is run out of the same East Village apartment where everything began in New York City. Kelbaugh and a committed team of volunteers, team members and advisors continue to work hard to doing what they do best: building and strengthening community through food and art.
Slideluck Potshow is currently developing shows across the Middle East, Europe, Asia, North and South America.
Complex multimedia presentations are welcomed and all shows are accompanied by music, commentary, and other surprises that enhance the viewing experience. A wide range of genres is shown within each show, from Fine art photography
to Photojournalism
, from Drawing and Painting to Fashion Photography
. Regardless of a presenter's status in the arts community, none is allotted more than five minutes for their slideshow presentation and most fall within the 3-minute range.
Slideluck Potshow welcomes all members of the general public to its events. By providing a forum for dialogue between the public and members of the arts community, Slideluck Potshow aims to promote deeper awareness and appreciation of diverse forms of visual art. The opportunity to interact with the artists is a critical part of developing greater public appreciation of the exhibited works. These events have drawn crowds of over 2000 in New York, and in other cities between 100-600.
to launch the Slideluck Youth Initiative (SLYI) in the New York City. SLYI fosters creative expression and empowers students through the use of photography and multimedia storytelling. In doing so, SLYI develops valuable skills, enriches student's lives, and strengthens community.
Over the course of sixteen weeks, members of the Slideluck community (sports photographers, photo editors, gallerists, fashion photographers, etc.) worked with groups of students to conceive, develop, and produce bodies of work that were ultimately presented at a slideshow potluck - to which all of the mentors, students, their friends, teachers, and families were invited to participate. The curriculum included shooting safaris, field trips to galleries, and artist visits. The theme of the first show was Community, which each student defined this as they saw fit. In addition to the student work from our programs in Chelsea, the Upper West Side and the Lower East Side, slideshows were included from youth photography programs around the world, including: The Philippines, Brazil, South Dakota, Zambia, and Washington, DC!
In 2010, SLYI worked with one group of about a dozen 6 and 7-year olds in the after school arts program at Chelsea's Hudson Guild. Professional photographer, Amber De Vos, worked closely with art therapist, Alana Ruptak to develop a curriculum and provide an educational, challenging, and empowering 16-week program for the children. The culminating slideshow potluck event was celebrated with the Hudson Guild community, and along with the slideshow, included diplomas, recitations, and a printed portfolio of the student's work.
SLPS hopes to continue to develop this SLYI program and to one day expand it to other cities.
, The Detroit Free Press, DC Magazine, The Washington Post
, Brazilian Vogue online, Radio Nacional De Colombia, The Village Voice
, El Tiempo, GOOD Magazine, Fotosite Magazine, ABC Newspaper-Seville, The Columbus Dispatch, The Chicago Reader
, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, ASMP Bulletin, Fox News, Metro NY Newspaper, Page Magazine, Photo District News
, TimeOut Chicago, Columbus Alive, Ann Arbor News, Popular Photography, Teaching Photography, TimeOut New York, Michigan Daily, The New Yorker
, Seattle Metropolitan
Magazine, Bloomberg Television
, WNYC
, Mashable
, The Chicago Tribune, Cool Hunting, and Zink Magazine
.
Slideluck Potshow sponsors exhibitions of artistic works, produced in slideshow format, designed to showcase works created by both novice and established artists, including photojournalists, painters, designers, sculptors, fashion and fine art photographers. These exhibitions create a forum for exposing the general public, artists, and other members of the arts community to new work. Past participants have included: the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is a nonprofit corporation founded in 1937 by philanthropist Solomon R. Guggenheim and artist Hilla von Rebay. The first museum established by the foundation was the "Museum of Non-Objective Art", which was housed in rented space on Park Avenue in New York....
, Elliott Erwitt
Elliott Erwitt
Elliott Erwitt is an advertising and documentary photographer known for his black and white candid shots of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings— a master of Henri Cartier-Bresson's "decisive moment"....
, Shepard Fairey
Shepard Fairey
Frank Shepard Fairey is an American contemporary graphic designer, and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding scene. He first became known for his "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign, in which he appropriated images from the comedic supermarket tabloid Weekly World News. His...
, Chris Buck
Chris Buck
Chris Buck is a film director known for directing Tarzan and Surf's Up. He also worked as supervising animator on Home on the Range and Chicken Little....
, Alec Soth
Alec Soth
Alec Soth is an American photographer notable for "large-scale American projects" featuring the midwestern United States. His photography has a cinematic feel with elements of folklore that hint at a story behind the image. New York Times art critic Hilarie M...
, Martin Schoeller
Martin Schoeller
Martin Schoeller is a New York based photographer whose style is distinguished by similar treatment of all subjects whetherthey are celebrities or unknown. His most recognizable work are his portraits, shot with similar lighting, backdrop, and tone...
, Elinor Carucci
Elinor Carucci
Elinor Carucci is an Israeli-American photographer.-Early life:She was born in Jerusalem where she served in the Israeli Army for two years from 1989–1991, and received her BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in 1995. She lives and works in New York City and is a member of the Faculty...
, Alistair Thain, Spencer Tunick
Spencer Tunick
Spencer Tunick is an American photographer. Tunick is best known for organizing large-scale nude shoots. Since 1994 he has photographed over 75 human installations around the world.-Biography:...
, Nina Berman
Nina Berman
Nina Berman is an American documentary photographer. Her wedding photo of wounded Iraq War veteran Ty Ziegel and his bride, Renee Kline, won the 2007 World Press Photo competition. She is the author of the book Purple Hearts - Back from Iraq portraits and interviews with 20 veterans, 2004...
, Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky OC is a Canadian photographer and artist who has achieved international recognition for his large-format photographs of industrial landscapes. His work is housed in more than fifteen major museums including the Guggenheim Museum, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Bibliothèque...
, Eugene Mirman
Eugene Mirman
Eugene Boris Mirman is a Russian-born American comedian, writer, and filmmaker. Mirman currently plays Yvgeny Mirminsky on Delocated, and voices Gene Belcher for the animated comedy Bob's Burgers.-Early life:Mirman was born in Russia to Jewish parents...
, Chuck Close
Chuck Close
Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits...
, Gregory Crewdson
Gregory Crewdson
Gregory Crewdson is an American photographer who is best known for elaborately staged scenes of American homes and neighborhoods.-Life and career:Crewdson was born in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY...
, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin
Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin
Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin are a Dutch fashion photographer duo, well known for their work for fashion magazines, advertising campaigns, and for their independent art work.-Biography:Vinoodh Matadin studied fashion design in Amsterdam between 1981 and 1985, and started...
, and Nadav Kander
Nadav Kander
Nadav Kander is a London based photographer, artist and director, internationally renowned for his portraiture and landscapes. His work forms part of the public collection at the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Kander's work is also exhibited in numerous...
.
At each Slideluck Potshow event, the slideshow exhibition is preceded by a couple hours of mingling and dining on a potluck
Potluck
A potluck is a gathering of people where each person or group of people contributes a dish of food prepared by the person or the group of people, to be shared among the group...
-style dinner, and then a spectacular slideshow commences.
History
In the summer of 2000, Casey Kelbaugh hosted the first Slideluck Potshow in his tiny Seattle backyard with about fifty friends. Kelbaugh realized that he was surrounded by amazing and talented artists of all kinds - from painters to potters to photographers - but each was sequestered away in their studios, darkrooms or glued to their computers. He saw that there was no common ground on which everyone could meet to share work and ideas - allowing for both creative expression and cross-pollination. Over the next three years, Kelbaugh worked with many others to produce 20 Slidelucks in galleries, lofts, living rooms, and studios all over Seattle.In the fall of 2003, Kelbaugh relocated to New York City, bringing Slideluck Potshow with him. The first NYC event took packed 150 people into his East Village apartment in early 2004 and the thirst for this type of authentic, accessible and non-commercial gathering was palpable. Every subsequent event took place in a different space in Manhattan, and by 2006, the shows were drawing upwards of one thousand people. It was clear that there was an immediate demand for egalitarian, community-building gatherings such as SLPS. With the help of then producer and co-director Alys Kenny, SLPS also grew quickly in terms of production value, reputation, and reach. As people passed through New York, they brought their experiences at various Slidelucks home with them and requests to do shows began to pour in from cities such as Washington, DC, Los Angeles and Madrid.
Kelbaugh and Kenny spent much of 2007 and 2008 on the road, working with local teams to facilitate launches of SLPS all across Europe, North, Central and South America. Though the demand for Slideluck Potshows only increased, with the crash of the economy, SLPS greatly contracted its growth and focused on building a stable infrastructure by creating The Slideluck Potshow Handbook and furthering community outreach, by launching the Slideluck Youth Initiative.
Slideluck Potshow is run out of the same East Village apartment where everything began in New York City. Kelbaugh and a committed team of volunteers, team members and advisors continue to work hard to doing what they do best: building and strengthening community through food and art.
Slideluck Potshow is currently developing shows across the Middle East, Europe, Asia, North and South America.
The Slideshows
The multi-media slideshows are have roughly 35-40 artists per show, and presented in two 45-minute halves. Typically, one half of the show has a theme (previous examples include Anticipation, Excess, Mistakes, and Change), and the other half is non-themed for contributors to show their personal projects. Event submissions are collected and curated by Slideluck Potshow directors and local producers in advance of the slideshow event. They undergo a formal review process to assess quality and artistic merit of the submissions and to ensure diversity, range of subject matter, experience, and genre, as well as consistency of the presentations with the theme of the exhibition.Complex multimedia presentations are welcomed and all shows are accompanied by music, commentary, and other surprises that enhance the viewing experience. A wide range of genres is shown within each show, from Fine art photography
Fine art photography
Fine art photography refers to photographs that are created in accordance with the creative vision of the photographer as artist. Fine art photography stands in contrast to photojournalism, which provides a visual account for news events, and commercial photography, the primary focus of which is to...
to Photojournalism
Photojournalism
Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism that creates images in order to tell a news story. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images, but in some cases the term also refers to video used in broadcast journalism...
, from Drawing and Painting to Fashion Photography
Fashion photography
Fashion photography is a genre of photography devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items. Fashion photography is most often conducted for advertisements or fashion magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, or Elle...
. Regardless of a presenter's status in the arts community, none is allotted more than five minutes for their slideshow presentation and most fall within the 3-minute range.
Slideluck Potshow welcomes all members of the general public to its events. By providing a forum for dialogue between the public and members of the arts community, Slideluck Potshow aims to promote deeper awareness and appreciation of diverse forms of visual art. The opportunity to interact with the artists is a critical part of developing greater public appreciation of the exhibited works. These events have drawn crowds of over 2000 in New York, and in other cities between 100-600.
Slideluck Youth Initiative
In 2009, Slideluck Potshow worked with the Educational Alliance, LEAP and Hudson GuildHudson Guild
The Hudson Guild is a community-based social services organization rooted in and primarily focused on the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was founded in 1897 by Dr. John Lovejoy Elliott as a settlement house, with the intention of helping to alleviate the problems of the...
to launch the Slideluck Youth Initiative (SLYI) in the New York City. SLYI fosters creative expression and empowers students through the use of photography and multimedia storytelling. In doing so, SLYI develops valuable skills, enriches student's lives, and strengthens community.
Over the course of sixteen weeks, members of the Slideluck community (sports photographers, photo editors, gallerists, fashion photographers, etc.) worked with groups of students to conceive, develop, and produce bodies of work that were ultimately presented at a slideshow potluck - to which all of the mentors, students, their friends, teachers, and families were invited to participate. The curriculum included shooting safaris, field trips to galleries, and artist visits. The theme of the first show was Community, which each student defined this as they saw fit. In addition to the student work from our programs in Chelsea, the Upper West Side and the Lower East Side, slideshows were included from youth photography programs around the world, including: The Philippines, Brazil, South Dakota, Zambia, and Washington, DC!
In 2010, SLYI worked with one group of about a dozen 6 and 7-year olds in the after school arts program at Chelsea's Hudson Guild. Professional photographer, Amber De Vos, worked closely with art therapist, Alana Ruptak to develop a curriculum and provide an educational, challenging, and empowering 16-week program for the children. The culminating slideshow potluck event was celebrated with the Hudson Guild community, and along with the slideshow, included diplomas, recitations, and a printed portfolio of the student's work.
SLPS hopes to continue to develop this SLYI program and to one day expand it to other cities.
Press
Slideluck Potshow has been referenced in the following national and international publications and media outlets: The New York TimesThe New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, The Detroit Free Press, DC Magazine, The Washington Post
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
, Brazilian Vogue online, Radio Nacional De Colombia, The Village Voice
The Village Voice
The Village Voice is a free weekly newspaper and news and features website in New York City that features investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts and music coverage, and events listings for New York City...
, El Tiempo, GOOD Magazine, Fotosite Magazine, ABC Newspaper-Seville, The Columbus Dispatch, The Chicago Reader
The Chicago Reader
The Chicago Reader is an American alternative weekly newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, noted for its literary style of journalism and coverage of the arts, particularly film and theater. It was founded in 1971 by a group of friends from Carleton College...
, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, ASMP Bulletin, Fox News, Metro NY Newspaper, Page Magazine, Photo District News
Photo District News
Photo District News is an American monthly trade publication for professional photographers. PDN was first published in 1980. The publication takes its name from New York City's photo district, an area of photo businesses that was once located in Flatiron District.Originally named New York Photo...
, TimeOut Chicago, Columbus Alive, Ann Arbor News, Popular Photography, Teaching Photography, TimeOut New York, Michigan Daily, The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, Seattle Metropolitan
Seattle Metropolitan
Seattle Metropolitan, or Seattle Met, is a monthly, local magazine for Seattle, Washington. Its first issue was published in March 2006 and features reporting and feature articles on Seattle events, people, dining and restaurants, popular places and attractions.-Staff:Editor-in-chief Katherine...
Magazine, Bloomberg Television
Bloomberg Television
Bloomberg Television is a 24-hour global network broadcasting business and financial news. It is distributed globally, reaching over 200 million homes worldwide. It is owned and operated by Bloomberg L.P...
, WNYC
WNYC
WNYC is a set of call letters shared by a pair of co-owned, non-profit, public radio stations located in New York City.WNYC broadcasts on the AM band at 820 kHz, and WNYC-FM is at 93.9 MHz. Both stations are members of National Public Radio and carry distinct, but similar news/talk programs...
, Mashable
Mashable
Mashable is an American news website and Internet news blog founded by Pete Cashmore. The website's primary focus is social media news, but also covers news and developments in mobile, entertainment, online video, business, web development, technology, memes and gadgets...
, The Chicago Tribune, Cool Hunting, and Zink Magazine
Zink magazine
Zink is an American magazine that showcases emerging and reinvented talent in the world of international fashion, beauty, design, art and entertainment.- History :...
.