Slideluck Potshow
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| Founder(s) | Casey Kelbaugh |
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| Founded | 2000 Seattle, Washington, USA |
| Location | New York, NY, USA |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Focus | Art, photography, food, community |
| Method | Community Events |
| Website | Slideluck Potshow Website/Slideluck Potshow Network |
Slideluck Potshow (SLPS) 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.[1] 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.
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[edit] 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.[2]
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.
[edit] 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 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[3][4].
[edit] Slideluck Youth Initiative
In 2009, Slideluck Potshow worked with the Educational Alliance, LEAP and Hudson Guild 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.
[edit] Press
Slideluck Potshow has been referenced in the following national and international publications and media outlets: The New York Times, 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.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ Global Slideluck Groups
- ^ Slideluck Potshow Website
- ^ Bleyer, Jennifer (March 27, 2007). "The Dinner Was Potluck, but Then, So Was the Art". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/27/arts/design/27slid.html.
- ^ Ramanathan, Lavanya (February 15, 2008). "Covered Dish and Unveiled Art". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/14/AR2008021404016.html.
- ^ Slideluck Potshow Press
- Slideluck Potshow Continues Global Spread
- "Slideshow Buffet". Good Magazine.
- Seay, Kendra (March 23, 2009). "A Potluck And Afterparty With The Slideluck Youth Initiative: The Lower East Side Getting Artsy For A Cause"". GuestofaGuest.com. http://guestofaguest.com/nyc-events/a-potluck-and-afterparty-with-the-slideluck-youth-initiative-the-lower-east-side-getting-artsy-for-a-cause.
