The Experience, Alameda: Frank Bette Center for the Arts New Shows

The Experience:

Besties + The Egret-Making Contact Shows Open!

June 4^th – Aug 7^thBesties + 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.”