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Slideluck Potshow (SLPS) is a non-profit organization devoted to building and strengthening community around 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. Kelbaugh and Co-Director and Producer Alys Kenny organize 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 include: The Guggenheim Foundation, Elliott Erwitt, Shepard Fairey, Chris Buck, Alec Soth, Martin Schoeller, Elinor Carucci, Alistair Thain, Spencer Tunick, Nina Berman, Edward Burtysky, and Eugene Mirman. At each Slideluck Potshow event, the slideshow exhibition is preceded by a potluck-style dinner during which networking and mingling among attendees is encouraged. All guests are asked to contribute as the event is entirely dependent on participation.

History
In the summer of 2000, Casey Kelbaugh invited about fifty of his friends, all engaged in various creative endeavors, for a combination slideshow and potluck in his backyard on Seattle's Capitol Hill. Kelbaugh received positive feedback from his friends about the opportunity to share artwork and food in a relaxed and spirited setting, and began to hold repeat events under the name Slideluck Potshow. Over the course of the next three years, Kelbaugh produced twenty shows all over Seattle in galleries, backyards, and artists' lofts. In the fall of 2003, Kelbaugh relocated to New York and shortly thereafter teamed up with Alys Kenny. Together, they produced the first New York show in Kelbaugh's East Village apartment. The turnout far exceeded expectations and it was clear that there was an immediate demand for egalitarian, community-building gatherings such as SLPS. Kelbaugh and Kenny began producing three shows a year, all over Manhattan, and the popularity grew. Within four years, attendance had grown from 120 per event to 1200. In 2006, SLPS began getting requests to bring this model to other communities outside of New York and Seattle. The first show of this kind took place in Washington, DC. Soon after, there were shows in Los Angeles, Columbus, San Francisco, Portland, OR, Chicago, Anne Arbor, Detroit, and elsewhere. In the Spring of 2007, Kelbaugh and Kenny traveled to Europe to launch in London, Madrid, Milan, Copenhagen, Berlin and later Seville. The following year, they returned to launch in Rome, Barcelona, and Stockholm. In the Spring of 2008, SLPS launched in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Bogotá, Venezuela, Panama and Mexico. Slideluck Potshow is currently developing shows across the Middle East, Europe, Asia, North and South America.

The Slideshows
The multi-media slideshows are comprised of 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.

Slideluck Youth Initiative
In the fall of 2008, Slideluck Potshow launched the the Slideluck Youth Initiative (SLYI) to foster creative expression and empower students through the use of photography and multimedia storytelling. In doing so, SLYI aims to develop valuable skills, enrich students' lives, and strengthen the community. The winter 2007-2008 pilot program brought members of the Slideluck Potshow community (photographers, photo-editors, gallerists, etc,) to collaborate with after-school arts programs in New York City, including the Education Alliance and Hudson Guild. These mentors worked with each group of students to conceive, develop, and produce bodies of work that were ultimately presented at a slideshow potluck at which all mentors, students, friends, teachers, and families were invited to participate. This a model that SLYI hopes will be adopted in other cities Slideluck Potshow operates.

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, and Seattle Metropolitan Magazine.