"Since July of this year, the duo of Jeff Heyman and Sharonda Grant (who goes by "Westeigh") have operated Frame1A Gallery and Photographic Salon, a tiny one-room space that also spills out into a hallway, just east of downtown Alameda in an old house that's also home to medical and other offices on Central Avenue. It ain't the exactly The Whitney ( whitney.org), but it's a start."
"The two photographers met through an exhibit they both had photos in at San Francisco's de Young Museum in 2023 and hit it off.From there they started doing photo workshops together at Alameda's Frank Bette Center for the Arts and realized they both "cared about the photo community and how we wanted to make something for people who are not getting their work on the walls," says Frame1A gallery co-owner Heyman."
Jeff Heyman and Sharonda Grant (Westeigh) opened Frame1A Gallery and Photographic Salon in Alameda in July, operating a small one-room space with a hallway in an older Central Avenue building. The gallery provides exhibition opportunities specifically for emerging Bay Area photographers and aims to get local work on walls. The collaborators met at an exhibit at San Francisco's de Young Museum in 2023 and later led workshops at Alameda's Frank Bette Center for the Arts. Initial plans to open in Carmel were abandoned after finding the market focused on expensive historic masterworks.
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