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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

Orange Crate Art + California History Presented by Frank Bette Center For the Arts!

ORANGE CRATE ART from the Collection of John Orr will be showing in the Main Gallery of the Frank Bette Center in Alameda from January 16 – 30. Join John Orr today, Wednesday, January 13 from 6-8pm as he shows a number of the Orange Crate Artworks while talking about the history of commercial art and California.

The gallery is open on weekends 11am -5pm – only 12 socially distanced visitors at a time, according to their website. Check their website first for updates. (Image to the right: Call for ‘Shelter in Place’ Artwork for the exhibit Alone Together, February-March, 2021. Details online.)

About John Orr

John Orr is a freelance writer, reporter, editor, photographer, and Arts journalist. A member of the American Theatre Critics Association and founder of Regarding Arts, he was formerly a staff writer and editor for the Bay Area News Group

.About Frank Bette Center for the Arts

Frank Bette Center for the Arts is a nonprofit, volunteer-run art center housed in a lovely yellow turn-of-the-century Victorian at 1601 Paru Street in Alameda. Benefactor Frank Bette was 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.” The Frank Bette Center offers a variety of classes and workshops online – Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media, Photography, Cartooning, and Music.

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