Frank Bette Center for the Arts

10/08/2026

🎨 Get creative with block printing! Join printmaker Jen Zee on November 13 to design, carve, and print your own artwork. All supplies provided!

📍 Frank Bette Center for the Arts, Alameda
💲 $120 | 3-hour workshop

✨ Sign up today and make something uniquely yours! https://www.frankbettecenter.org/service-page/intro-to-block-printing-with-jen-zee?referral=service_list_widget

10/07/2026

✨ This is going to be spectacular! Join us for Luxtriplicata, a free, family-friendly interactive light experience with visiting Swedish light artist Johan Fredrik Källman. Explore colorful light, glass prisms, and optics in this playful hands-on experience where art meets science!

📅 Saturday, October 10 | 5–8 PM
📍 Frank Bette Center for the Arts
🎟️ Free to attend

This is a demonstration video of the interactive light-art installa...

10/07/2026

✨ This is going to be spectacular! Join us for Luxtriplicata, a free, family-friendly interactive light experience with visiting Swedish light artist Johan Fredrik Källman. Explore colorful light, glass prisms, and optics in this playful hands-on experience where art meets science!

📅 Saturday, October 10 | 5–8 PM
📍 Frank Bette Center for the Arts
🎟️ Free to attend

10/07/2026

My, what an eventful Saturday we have!

An artist reception for not one but TWO shows, from 3-5PM.
-Our community show themed: Sanctuary
-In the Signature Gallery, Charles Lucke takes over sharing his 54 years of stories photographed

Then, from 5-8PM, we have a special guest visiting from Sweden who will put on an exciting light demonstration: Luxtriplicata. 🌈

All events are free to attend! Come join us and support the arts in Alameda.

10/03/2026

10/03/2026

LAST CALL!!

Acrylics are a great introduction to the world of painting, and we are excited to have Tom teach acrylics at the Bette on Tuesday Evenings starting next week! This is your chance to learn a new skill this fall.

Register Now -> https://www.frankbettecenter.org/service-page/acrylic-painting-with-tom-waters?referral=service_list_widget

09/20/2026

Mark your calendar for October for this very special, free, and family-friendly display of color through light!

09/19/2026

It’s not too late to sign up for this unique opportunity to learn from an award-winning painter!
https://www.frankbettecenter.org/service-page/intro-to-color-theory-2-day-workshop?referral=service_list_widget

This will be a two day, indoor workshop at the Frank Better Center for the Arts. This course is intended for artists with some previous experience painting and drawing from life. You may use oils or acrylics. Cleo will be doing her demos and mixing in water miscible oils. We will review the visible....