Seen&Heard

Seen&Heard is an inclusive community arts project designed to provide an artistic outlet for participants to be personally witnessed through their original creation of visual art or spoken word. Open to the community (in and outside of Albany, CA), it welcomes individuals of all backgrounds, ages, and skill levels. At its core, Seen&Heard offers a platform for any and all individuals who yearn to reveal their authentic selves through artistic expression.

Finalists will be selected based on artistic merit and alignment with the show theme with finalists’ artwork to be featured in a gallery exhibit or showcased in a spoken word performance before a live audience. Through Seen&Heard, the community comes together to celebrate diverse voices and to foster connection.

Artworks accepted for exhibition need to be offered up for sale with 50/50 split between the artist and Abrams Claghorn Gallery.

Seen&Heard is a collaborative community project— produced by volunteer community organizer Eugenie Hsu, founder of other hyperlocal community events including Albany COVIDchella and Albany Move’n’Groove and gallery space and venue hosted by Abrams Claghorn Gallery in Albany, California— with artwork shared by and for the community.

As a psychotherapist and avid believer in the transformative power of the arts, Eugenie conceived of Seen&Heard with her vision to bring the community together through empathy and bearing witness to the creative process of artists.