19th Annual Frank Bette Plein Air Paintout
July 29-August 3
​The Frank Bette Plein Air Paintout hosts up to 40 juried artists for a week of painting tree-lined streets; stately Victorian homes and shops; picturesque marinas; historic naval ships and naval air station; as well as beaches, lagoons, parks, and San Francisco and Oakland skylines in the island city of Alameda, CA. The week includes a welcome reception, a luncheon and a quick draw and an outdoor exhibit and sale of all the paintings on Saturday. A selection of the unsold paintings from the sale are exhibited and for sale in the Frank Bette Center for the Arts Gallery through September.
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Plein Air Exhibit & Sale 10:00-5:00 South Shore Center
11:00 Watercolor demo with Suma CM
10:00 - 1:00 Judging
12:30 - 3:30 360 Band Plays
1:30 Awards Ceremony
2:30 Oil Demo
Sunset on Grand by Carol Tarzier
2024 Frank Bette Plein Air Paintout Artists
Geoffrey Allen
Nathaniel Bice
Cathy Boyer
Kerrie Brandau
Louis Chan
Wei Ting Chuang
Suma CM
Jason Conn
Lori Cusick
Paul Feinberg
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Karen Fiene
Susan Grabowski
Beth Grant
Leslie Hamilton
Greg Holzhauer
Paul Kensinger
Mila Kirillova
Raffi Kondy
Sandra Lo
Suzi Long
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​Marie Massey
Kristian Matthews
Steven McDonald
Jamie Morgan
Lisa Mozzini-McDill
Deborah Newman
Susan Otten
Boon Heng Pang
Al Shamble
Nutan Singh
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Randall Stauss
Teresa Steinbach-Garcia
Nancy Takaichi
Carol Tarzier
Mandar Wagholikar
Marti Walker
Durre Waseem
Steve Weinberger
Douglas Woodman
Xueling Zou
2024 Juror
BARBARA TAPP
The 2024 juror for the Frank Bette Plein Air Paintout will be Barbara Tapp. She is an award winning plein air painter who exhibits and participates in events across the country, including the past 3 years in the Frank Bette Plein Air Paintout.
Barbara is originally from Australia. She graduated with a degree in Interior Design from a school in Sydney Australia. After graduation, she traveled around Europe for 18 months. Barbara moved to San Francisco in 1980 and now lives in the Berkeley area where she raised her family.
She worked as an architectural and book illustrator for 36 years. After retiring from working as an illustrator Barbara focused on watercolors, and has been painting for about 12 years.
​She has described herself as “a curious watercolorist” who paints the world around her. Her Plein Air paintings show her love for strong perspective views and telling a story. Barbara believes that drawing and sketching are key foundations in thoughtful paintings.
The Frank Bette Center for the Arts is proud that Barbara Tapp will be the juror for our 19th Annual Plein Air Paintout.
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I am just home from the Frank Bette Art Center Alameda Plein Air Event! Year after year, the F B Center has done the BEST Plein Air Event - 19 years now! They have finely tuned every part of the event and have a team of Volunteers that is unequaled in their skills and dedication.
This was my 10th year here. It was fantastic to see so many artist friends again. Our Artists Reception was again a warm embrace from our tribe!
One of the ways I believe the Frank Bette Center excels in their event is in having a separate Quick Draw selling event mid-week on Wednesday. They tell us the parameters of where we can paint at the beginning of the event, and then have a whole separate Display & Sales opportunity at the same shopping center we will be at for the Final show! We generated lots of sales!!! and had another opportunity to be together as artist friends.
The Saturday Show was so well attended by locals who mark their calendars for it! It was again managed seamlessly and we had a steady stream of viewers all day. The sales were even better than previous years!!
The Awards Ceremony was a highlight with so many awards and the Juror Barbara Tapp who related to is why she had chosen the works awarded and then spent the rest of the day meeting with the artists individually with lots of encouragement and feedback.
The whole affair was stellar! Thanks Frank Bette Art Center !!
—Marti Walker
2024 Frank Bette Plein Air Paintout Sponsors
