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Please help us remain open by becoming a member, renewing your membership, taking an online class making a purchase from our new online store or making a donation to the Center.   The health of our Frank Bette community is of utmost importance and we look forward to seeing all of you when it is deemed safe to reopen. Stay safe, stay healthy, stay creative!  Please Donate Now! or Shop here!

You are invited to join us for a virtual Frank Bette Center for the Arts gallery gathering on Zoom!  Put on your Friday party clothes, open a bottle of wine or beer, lay out a spread of tasty nibbles and come chat with your art loving friends.
 
Friday, June 12 ~ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Send email to Margaret for the Zoom link

  CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS

Wendy Soneson
 
Wendy Soneson has been teaching watercolor for 35 years, shows her work locally and specializes in watercolor.

Check out Wendy's website
 here!
Follow Wendy on Facebook.
Watercolor and ink by Emily Weil

1 Session Workshop ~ ONLINE
Paint with Watercolor! Draw with Sticks and Ink!  with Emily Weil
 
Saturday, June 27
10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Fee: 
$55 Members; $65 Non-members


Learn to paint loosely-styled watercolors and add  ink using sticks.

Read more...
    Gourd drawing by Margaret W. Fago
 
6 Sessions ~ ONLINE
Drawing Dynamics
with Margaret W. Fago


Aug. 5, 12, 19, 26 and Sept. 2, 16
Mondays, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Fee:
$120 Members; $162 Non-members


Learn how to create design and form through line, shading, black and white shapes and tonal values.

Read more...
Alameda Island Poets Workshop 
Wed. June 11 ~ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Read more...

Alameda Island Poets
Wed., July 1 ~ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Read more...
Watercolor by Wendy Soneson

1 Session Workshop - ONLINE
Portraits with Watercolor with
Wendy Soneson

Sunday, June 21
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm


Fee:
$40 Members; $50 Non-members


Learn the dos and don'ts of the
basic proportions of the face, as well as how to mix skin tones.


Read more...
Pumpkins by Margaret W. Fago

6 Sessions  ~ ONLINE
Color Dynamics in Watercolor
with
Margaret W. Fago


View free online demo here!

Beginning - Intermediate

Aug. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 and Sept. 14
Mondays, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Intermediate - Advanced
Aug. 4, 11, 18, 25, and Sept. 1, 15

Tuesdays, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Fees:
$120 Members; $162 Non-members


Come develop your painting voice while learning watercolor techniques.

Begin - Interm - Read more...
Interm - Adv -    Read more...
Photograph by Amy Patick

1 Session Workshop ~ ONLINE
iPhone Photography 101
with Amy Patick

Day and time to be decided by Amy and student

Fee: $50 Members; $60 Non-members for 1.5 hr.

 
Learn essential features of your iPhone, simple editing techniques, and basic principles for great pictures.

  Read more...
These classes, and more, will be offered upon reopening:
Begin Again in Oils with Peggy Cotton 
        Read more...
Creative Cartooning with Gary Francis          Read more...
Perspective for Artists Drawing with Carolyn Lord          Read more...
Intermediate Perspective for Artists Drawing with Carolyn Lord     Read more...
Intermediate Ukulele with Janet Lenore          Read more...
Not Quite Beginning Guitar with Janet Lenore          Read more...
In the Main Gallery...                                      

Love is in the Air  


 VIEW ONLINE



Read more...
In our Signature Gallery....                                   



Frank Bette

Instructors Exhibit

 
 
 
Read more..                                                                                        Chaos Theory by Emily Weil
The Lodge at Harbor Bay...
Mix It Up II


Photography by Mike Gifford

The Lodge is currently closed to the public for viewing of this exhibit.
  Here He Is by Mike Gifford                                                                         Read more...    
   
                                        801 Island Drive, Alameda, CA 94502  
       
Although we have postponed our Frank Bette Plein Air Paintout until 2021, we are still offering the opportunity for one of our artists to paint your home, business or favorite spot on the island.  Read more here...

Invite an artist!

July 27 - August 1

Read about one of our artists,
David Savellano here..
                                                                                          Gibbon Shadows, watercolor by David Savellano
ONGOING PROGRAMS
Programs not currently online will resume upon reopening...

Life Drawing ~ Weekly Sessions with Model (no instructor)
Tuesdays, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm                                                                  Read more...

Alameda Island Poets ~ Hosted by Nanette Deetz and Cathy Dana
First Wednesday of each month ~ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm   
             
Read more...    


Acoustic Jam ~ Facilitated by Janet Lenore
Every 3rd Wednesday of the month  7:00 pm - 8:30 pm              
Read more...

Alameda Island Poets Workshop ~ Hosted by Cathy Dana and Marilyn Flower
Every 2nd Thursday of the month ~ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm              
 Read more...

Poetry and Prose ~ Hosted by Wulf Losee
Every 2nd  Saturday ~ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm                                         
Read more...
 View a Preview of  2020 Alameda On Camera Online
2020 AOC
In both galleries...

2020 Alameda On Camera


DATES:  TBD


This will be our first exhibit
upon reopening.
 Travelin' Blues by Jennifer Cook, AOC Marketing Award                       Read more...         
Your donations help support
  • maintaining our building
  • strengthening our programs
  • sustaining our day-to-day operations
  • providing awards to our artists
  • providing grants for special projects

Please make your tax deductible donation now here!

Or you can make a tax deductible donation by check to:

Frank Bette Center for the Arts
1601 Paru Street
Alameda, CA 94501
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On to Phase Two


Many thanks to Lary Heath from Enluma who has done
such a great job illuminating our upstairs classroom.  But we aren't done.  Phase Two is almost done . If you've been to the center you may have noticed the dust. Please donate. Thank you.
 


 
Thanks to our

2019 Alameda

On Camera 

Sponsors


 
Thanks to our

sponsors for the

2019  Plein Air

Paintout

A Big Thank You to Alameda Shade Shop

for donating new shades for our

upstairs classroom. 

Thank you to
eon Computer Technologies
of Alameda!
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