The Neddy Awardsâ$25,000 each to two winners and $1,500 each to six finalistsâare given every year to âindividuals who create outstanding work with an applied consciousness of responsibility to society.â This joint exhibition of all their works gives you a chance to consider what the criteria mean and whether youâd have applied them the same way, and itâs also a good survey of strong Seattle artists. This yearâs winners are Susanna Bluhm and Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes, and the finalists are Claude Zervas, Mark Calderon, Clyde Petersen, Joey Veltkamp, Robert Hardgrave, and Kimberly Trowbridgeâpainters, sculptors, and collagists whose works touch on landscape, gender, race, music, Western art history, patterning, and grief. Itâs a small but big show. (Cornish College of the Arts Main Gallery, 1000 Lenora St, cornish.edu/neddy_at_cornish, noonâ5 pm, free, through Oct 18)