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The Experience, Alameda: Frank Bette Center for the Arts Photography Exhibit

The Experience:

Egret–Making Contact Runs Through August 6!

Egret – Making Contact, an interactive photography exhibit at the Frank Bette Center for the Arts, portrays the striking personalities of egrets at home in cities around the San Francisco Bay Area. With his lens, Gerry Traucht captures egrets standing gracefully at city entrances, by freeways, lagoons, and parks. He has taken special notice of Egrets in Alameda.

Traucht’s photographs reveal movement that looks like dance, close-up images of individual birds looking into the camera, and wild feathers caught in a frenzied fraction of a second.   This collection of  photographs is an invitation to appreciate the place where art, history, and nature convene and to celebrate the wild elegance, practically in our own backyards.

“What makes this exhibit special,” says Traucht, “is that my photographs were lucky enough to witness egrets in their apparently more mystical and otherworldly states. It is quite astounding to look into the eyes of these natural sentient ambassadors. Alameda folks should have a chance to see and experience the egrets in their transformative behavior.“

28 photographs displayed in the gallery and more in the video shows. An interactive photography exhibit not to miss!

The Frank Bette Center for the Arts is open Fri – Sun, 11am-5pm –  July 23-25, July 30-Aug 1, and Fri, Aug 6, 2021.

Where:

1601 Paru St.
Alameda

https://www.frankbettecenter.org/

By |2021-07-21T09:16:10-07:00July 21st, 2021|Tags: , , , |0 Comments
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The Experience, Alameda: Frank Bette Center for the Arts New Shows

The Experience:

Besties + The Egret-Making Contact Shows Open!

  • June 4th – Aug 7th Besties + Egret – Making Contact Shows
  • Virtual Opening Reception Friday June 11, 7-9 pm
  • 7pm Besties Show Main Gallery Opening Reception
  • 7:30pm Egret – Making Contact Signature Gallery Opening Reception

What does it mean to be ‘Besties’? Ask any dog owner. Frank Bette Center for the Arts is known for its wonderful Gallery of Pet Portraits. This summer FBCA’s Main Gallery features artists’ captures of their Besties through August 7. 16 artists are showing  their works about companions, companionship, and caring for each other. It’s about hanging out with a best buddy.

Ellie Fidler, a Berkeley artist and painter showcases three pieces in this exhibit, one of which is titled ‘Polar Bear & Red Dog’ (featured here, print of an original painting, framed 11″x14″).

Egret – Making Contact captures through photography the striking personalities of egrets at home in cities of the San Francisco Bay Area. During the opening reception photographer Gerry Traucht will also show a couple of short video clips  of the egrets, the babies, and nests that you cannot see from the ground.

The Frank Bette Center for the Arts show dovetails with the annual return of these magical birds to Alameda’s Bay Farm Island. Every spring through summer a joyous —clatter from a tribe of great and snowy egrets overflows into Alameda, mating, building nests, feeding and teaching their young.  Gerry Traucht is a Bay Area photographer, focusing on birds and dogs and has been recognized by the City of Berkeley by proclamation for his environmental and creative contributions. Having a show in the Signature Gallery is a privilege of being a FBCA member.

Join the Opening Receptions on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84866968724?pwd=WEY3cnNEV2l0NGNlZUFocVJzTnQ2QT09#success

Current Center hours: Friday – Sunday 11am- 5pm

About Frank Bette Center for the Arts

The non-profit, volunteer run Frank Bette Center for the Arts is housed in the lovely yellow turn-of-the-century Victorian at 1601 Paru Street at Lincoln Avenue in Alameda, California.Benefactor Frank Bette was well known as a master antique furniture restorer. Upon his death in 1999 at the age of 99, he bequeathed the house as “a place for meetings, readings, showings, and other creative doings.”

Where:

1601 Paru St.
Alameda

https://www.frankbettecenter.org/

By |2021-06-11T09:33:30-07:00June 9th, 2021|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments
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The Experience, Alameda: The Hangar 1 Distillery

The Experience:

Vodka Tasting Flights Are Back!

On their outdoor patio with views of SF Bay, enjoy six (6) of Hangar 1’s flavored and straight vodka expressions while learning how to fully taste and appreciate the subtleties of vodka. Their vodka flights include both their fundamental expressions and their distillery exclusives, which can only be found at this Alameda distillery.

For example, their Core Tasting Flight includes Rosé vodka, Hangar 1 Straight, Makrut Lime, Mandarin Blossom, Buddha’s Hand Citron, and Bentwing Brandy.

Hangar 1 experts will help guide you through the tasting, answer questions, and provide ideas for new cocktail recipes. And you get to learn about the craft of making Vodka the California Way with grapes and grains in an old WWII era Hangar at Alameda Point. While visiting you’ll immerse yourself in the fresh produce and botanicals locally sourced as you learn about the distillation process in the old WWII era hangar on Alameda Point. You may want to stay and soak in the beautiful sunsets over the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges!

Where:

2505 Monarch St.
Alameda

http://hangarone.com

By |2021-06-02T09:14:21-07:00June 2nd, 2021|Tags: , , , |0 Comments
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The Experience, Alameda: Frank Bette Center for the Arts New Exhibit

The Experience:

The Egret. Making Contact. You Can Too!

From Friday June 4 – Friday August 6, 2021, you can learn about the striking personalities of egrets at home around the San Francisco Bay. With his lens, Gerry Traucht captures egrets standing gracefully at city entrances, by freeways, lagoons, and parks. At surprise moments they perform their courting displays as mating rituals. He has taken special notice of Egrets in Alameda.

They are grace. They are otherworldly. In Alameda this colony of egrets intimately shares their way of life. Their courting, nesting, mating, and a cacophony of chicks. You can hear their clack clack clatter from Leydecker Park if you arrive at feeding times. It is a short stroll from car to their colony by the lagoon. You can observe all phases of their life and their mysteries often over six months from March through August.

“I love being at Harbor Bay Isle,” says photographer Gerry Traucht. “For years I have watched until their rangy Monterey pine finished its life span and was taken down. Would they come back? They surprised us. We thought they would claim a new tree, but they didn’t. They took all the trees in a grove of pines. They are fewer in number, but they offer a chance to watch them build over the next dozen years.”

Traucht’s photographs reveal movement that looks like dance, close-up images of individual birds looking into the camera, and wild feathers caught in a frenzied fraction of a second. The Frank Bette Center for the Arts is now open Friday – Sunday 11am – 5pm. Check their website for updates.

Where:

1601 Paru St.
Alameda

https://www.frankbettecenter.org/

By |2021-05-25T07:39:51-07:00May 25th, 2021|Tags: , , , |0 Comments
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Save The Animals + Save The Arts! It’s All Happening in Alameda!

Frank Bette Center for the Arts & Friends of Alameda Animal Shelter Host Paw Prints Fundraiser!

What: Paw Prints Online Art Fundraiser
When: March 4-14, 2021
Where:  Online auction              Art items for sale              Make a donation

Love animals and Alameda scenery? You can liven up  a blank wall or two  in your home or office over the next ten days and at the same time help the Friends of Alameda Animal Center and the Frank Bette Center for the Arts. It’s a win- win. Artwork is donated mostly by members of the Alameda and surrounding art community. Auction items include art experiences, art supplies and art for sale. Just browsing all the auction items feels like a cultural experience!

Featured artwork

Soul – Snowy egret photographed in swan-like image in an East Bay lagoon. Kanji symbol for Soul marks the unusual moment. Photography by Gerry Traucht https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100019466299227

Kanji Dog – Shawnee running at the beach. The kanji means dog. Created for the Chinese New Year, Year of the Dog, 2018. Painting by Ellie Fidler

Harley Cap Pop Art – Buddy in a Harley cap. Pop Art, Warhol style. Also by Ellie Fidler https://www.facebook.com/EllieFidlerDesigns/

How to Join the Auction

  • It’s easy, you click on this link https://fbca.betterworld.org/auctions/paw-prints-3 and go to Log In and create an account to buy or bid on auction items.
  • Browse the auction items and click to get more details or place your bid.
  • This is a fundraiser so all sales will be final. No refunds will be given.
  • Starting March 6, you will be able see many of the auction items in person at the Frank Bette Center, 1601 Paru Street (at Lincoln) from 11 am to 5pm on Saturday & Sunday.
  • Items purchased at the online auction will be available for pick-up at the Frank Bette Center starting Thursday March 18th through Sunday March 21 from 11-5pm.

Here is a fun gallery of Pet Portraits. https://www.frankbettecenter.org/special-events.html  Enjoy!  And thank you to all the artists!

About The Frank Bette Center for the Arts & Friends of the Alameda Animal Shelter

Many nonprofit organizations suffered great losses during the pandemic. The purpose of this fundraiser is to help support the Friends of the Alameda Animal Shelter (FAAS) and the Frank Bette Center for the Arts (FBCA). Both organizations have a number of things in common: They are totally run by volunteers, they exist to serve their community, and are valued as sources of civic pride in the city of Alameda. FAAS rescues and cares for animals that are lost or abandoned and finds them new homes. The Frank Bette Center offers a home for community artists to express their artistic vision. The center holds exhibits, offers art classes, and partners with visionary people and community organizations as a catalyst for creative energy. In difficult times, animals can be a source of caring and warmth and art that reflects that bond is a lasting source of comfort.

Frank Bette Center for the Arts

1601 Paru Street
Alameda, CA 94501
510-523-6957

Friends of Alameda Animal Shelter

590 Fortmann Way
Alameda, CA 94501
510-337-8565

By |2021-03-04T13:16:14-08:00March 4th, 2021|Tags: , , , |0 Comments
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