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  CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS
IMPORTANT: Classes and workshops are in-person unless otherwise noted.  Full vaccination required for in-person instruction.  Limited seating and masks required. Online learning is offered on Zoom.
Gary Francis
 
About the instructor:   Gary Francis is an East Bay native and a lifelong artist with experience in many forms of art including painting, figure drawing, photo-realistic drawings, cartoons and animation. Always passionate about art, Gary recently entered the world of photography. After two years attending the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, he transferred to Laguna College of Art and Design in Laguna Beach and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in animation.
After working many freelance art jobs, Gary went into art education and successfully completed a teaching certificate in Early Childhood Education. He thoroughly enjoys teaching the art of cartooning to children and he hopes to continue teaching for many years.
 
Watercolor by Emily Weil

1 Session
Paint with Watercolor! Draw with Sticks and Ink! with Emily Weil

Saturday, April 16
10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Fee:
$55 Members; $65 Non-members

Paint loosely-styled watercolors and add marks and lines with ink and sticks. 

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Point Molate Beach  by Rebeca Garcia-Gonzalez

4 Sessions 
Plein Air Painting with 
Rebeca Garcia-Gonzalez

June 3, 10, 17, 24
Fridays, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

Fee:
$220 Members; $245  Non-members

Discover beginner-friendly painting spots, and improve your technique.

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Photograph by Amy Patick

1 Session Workshop ~ ONLINE
iPhone Photography 101
with Amy Patick

TBD by instructor and students=

$50 Members; $60 Non-members 
 
Learn essential features of your iPhone, editing techniques for great pictures.

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Cartoon by Gary Francis
 
1 Session Workshops
Creative Cartooning with
Gary Francis

Saturday, April 23
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Fee:
$45 Members; $55 Non-members

Next Workshop: 
Saturday, May 7

Learn to construct solid characters in classic Looney Tunes and Disney cartoon style.

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3 Sessions  
Plein Air Basics with
Cathy Boyer

April 21, 28 and May 5
Wednesdays, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Fee:
$195 Members; 215 Non-members

The workshop will focus on the practice of painting alla prima. Sharpen skills of observation and wet into wet method.

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Pumpkins by Margaret W. Fago

6 Sessions  
Color Dynamics in Watercolor
with Margaret W. Fago

View free online demo here!

Beginning - Intermediate
MONDAYS WAITING LIST ONLY
June 13, 20, 27 and July 11, 18, 25
Mondays, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Intermediate - Advanced
 June 14, 21, 28 and July 12, 19, 26
Tuesdays, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Fees:
$120 Members; $162 Non-members

Come develop your painting voice while learning watercolor techniques. 

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Alameda Island Poets 
1st Wed., May 4 ~ 7 pm - 9 pm
Hosts: Nanette Deetz and
Cathy Dana                        Read more...

Alameda Island Poets Workshop
2nd Thurs., May 12 ~ 7 pm - 9 pm
Hosts:  Marilyn Flower and
Cathy Dana                        Read more...
Interested in teaching in with the Frank Bette Center?  Contact 
 programs or visit our website here.
In our Main Gallery and Signature Galleries...


Alameda On Camera


Exhibit is up until


Saturday, May 27


Mid-show Reception:


Friday, May 13~ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
                                
Victorian Style by Jeff Cullen, AOC Marketing                                                                   Read more...  
To view this years' award winners and entries, please visit  2022AOC.              

Fragments

Friday, June 3 - Saturday, July 30

Receiving day:  Sunday, May 29 ~ 11:00 am - 5:00 pm

Themes: Bits and pieces, broken, shattered, fleeting ideas, incomplete, tattered, old, new, small pieces, components of a whole, fractured, parts, branches, hunks, segments. ruins, passage illusions.
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In our Main Gallery...


Fragments


Friday, June 3 - Saturday, July 30

Opening Reception:

Friday, June 10

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Ancient Bristlecone by Sue Matthews                                                                                        Read more... 
In our Signature Gallery...

Artist, Ned Axthelm ~ June 3 - June 25                                       Read more...
Artist studio room available for rent upstairs at the Frank Bette Center for the Arts.   For details contact our Gallery Director Ros Harper.
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1601 Paru Street
Alameda, CA 94501
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On to Phase Three


Many thanks to Lary Heath from Enluma who has done
such a great job illuminating our upstairs rooms.  But we aren't done.  Phase Three will entail illuminating the stairwell. Please donate. Thank you.
 

Donate here...
Thanks to our 2022 Alameda On Camera Sponsors
Thanks to our sponsors for the
2021  Frank Bette Plein Air Paintout

Thank you to
eon Computer Technologies
of Alameda!
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