WHERE ART AND SKATEBOARDING INTERSECT

Deckaid is a volunteer-run 501(c)(3) retrospective skateboard art exhibition that showcases collector archives in celebration of skateboarding's influential history. Our exhibits raise awareness and funds for youth-centered community organizations.

White art gallery walls displaying skateboard decks and framed artwork sets, and old skate-shoes hanging from the ceiling - and then another wall at a bad angle filled with more assorted treasures framed and otherwise.

Each Deckaid exhibition is unique, bringing to light often unseen collections of skateboards, original art, and ephemera. Every Deckaid event brings people together in the spirit of nostalgia and care for community. 

What We Do

Deckaid collaborates with artists, collectors, and skateboarders to showcase and create awareness of skateboard art history, with an emphasis on supporting marginalized youth.

Our Mission

Our Impact

It is our intention to bring people together, to share, to innovate, and to lift up others with every exhibition and effort in between.

Since 2013, Deckaid has held 11 skateboard art exhibitions which are always free to the public while supporting nonprofits that work directly with marginalized youth.

To date Deckaid has:

  • Contributed towards the Nyack Skatepark & Ormond Spencer Skatepark.

  • Supported education for unhoused preschool children in Boston.

  • Funded a community food pantry in Washington D.C.

  • Assisted a youth arts program in Chicago.

  • Provided complete skateboards for youth in Tampa, Jersey City and the Pine Ridge Reservation.

  • Procured much needed supplies for a Columbus shelter for unhoused adolescents.

  • Contributed towards community programming in Albany.

  • Helped fund employment and education programs in Los Angeles.

Our Team

  • Black and white photo of a woman wearing a patterned hat, smiling softly, with a background that includes a fence and trees.

    Sarah Anderson

  • Close-up black and white photo of a man wearing a baseball cap, looking thoughtfully to the side.

    Tim Anderson

  • Close-up black-and-white photo of a woman with straight, shoulder-length hair, slightly smiling, looking at the camera.

    Niki Williams

  • Black and white close-up portrait of a woman with shoulder-length wavy hair, smiling with visible teeth, wearing a collared shirt, standing against a textured wall background.

    Michelle Box

  • A man wearing a baseball cap with the letters N and I, looking straight at the camera, in black and white.

    Steve Lenardo

  • Black and white close-up photo of a middle-aged man wearing a baseball cap, looking slightly to the right. The man has a beard and mustache, with visible wrinkles and light-colored eyes.

    Jay Croft

  • This is Bryan Ridgeway! He's been involved with us for a little while and formally added to Deckaid's Board of Directors in 2025. Heavy resume on this dude. Welcome Bryan!

    Bryan Ridgeway

Exhibition Curation and Installation Team

A white glove affair - harder than it looks folks! If you knew how much effort went into acquiring some of these things your head would explode. There's an unseen cost to taking these things out of the boxes, out of the bags, off the walls, out of our clutches - to show you never before seen treasures. Gloves, screws, step-ladders, brushless-drills, and 4mm poly-bags - oh my!

It's Tim and Sarah on the Crail couch! Tim is wearing what looks like a comfortable gray and black outfit, and Sarah is dressed in a red jumper with crisp, white sneakers. They are both smiling and sitting closely together.

Tim & Sarah Anderson

A man with a beard wearing a 'Rock 'N Roll' cap and a black t-shirt with a flamingo on it, standing next to a woman with red hair wearing a black jacket with patches, smiling at a festival or outdoor event.

Joel & Michelle Box

A man holding a cardboard box filled with colorful yarn balls, standing in front of a wall covered with multicolored yarn spools.

Jesse Geboy

A man with a beard wearing a gray hoodie and a white baseball cap with red lettering, standing inside a skate shop with shelves of skateboards and skateboarding accessories.

Trevor Culley

A logo with a stylized letter 'A' inside a circle, using shades of blue and dark gray.

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