Slideluck is a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to building and community through food and art. Founded by Casey Kelbaugh in 2000, Slideluck has hosted localized multimedia slideshows combined with potluck dinners in over 100 cities globally, providing a platform for over 15,000 artists to present their work. Participating artists have included Chuck Close, Shepard Fairey, Elliott Erwitt, Lauren Greenfield, Edward Burtynsky, Inez & Vinoodh, Gregory Crewdson, Nadav Kander, Alex Prager, Iwan Baan, Martin Parr and Bruce Davidson. In 2010, Slideluck won the Guinness World Record for the Largest Potluck Dinner on earth in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Since 2009, Slideluck has been educating inner city teens in photography and the arts in Harlem, the Bronx, East New York, East Los Angeles, post-earthquake Kathmandu and most recently refugee children in Idaho. Slideluck has been been featured in numerous media outlets including The New York Times, NPR, The Nation, VOGUE Brasil, ELLE Paris, The Washington Post, TIME, The Chicago Tribune, WNYC, Bloomberg TV, The San Francisco Chronicle and The New Yorker.
Slideluck
As desertification and extreme weather patterns delimitates habitable and uninhabitable zones, it is clear that the earth can't eternally withstand the strain of the industrialized world. Central to this work is the question of human survival in relation to nature and a global environment increasingly defined by unpredictability.
