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Amelia Earhart returns to Oakland!

 The delivery of Amelia Earhart to her temporary home at the Oakland Aviation Museum on Friday afternoon, Oct 16, 2015. She was delivered by artist, Jane DeDecker and will reside at the Oakland Aviation Museum until Amelia Earhart School is ready for her.
Margaret Fago President of the Frank Bette Center, Jane DeDecker, artist/sculpture, Ian Wright, Director of Operations, Oakland Aviation Museum and Joy Dean, Principal, Amelia Earhart School.
Back row Margaret Fago, Jane DeDecker, Amelia Earhart, Dick Davis, Kyle DeDecker, Carmen Davis. Front row children: the boy is the DeDecker’s son, the girl is Aria Schononberg, a student at Earhart School.
Dick Davis and friend with bronze statue of Amelia Earhart.
Amelia Earhart at the Oakland Aviation Museum. Shown with the type of plane she flew.
Amelia Earhart at the Oakland Aviation Museum.

Amelia Earhart Project

   "...Dream big and accomplish big things."
                                             -Amelia Earhart


Funds are needed to ensure its safe and secure installation.You can be a part of this historic opportunity to bring public art to Bay Farm Island by making a tax-deductible donation to the campaign. For this purpose we have created a GoFundMe site. Please join this extraordinary community effort to install a beautiful life size bronze sculpture of Amelia Earhart on the campus of Amelia Earhart Elementary School in Alameda, CA.

The Davis
Charitable Trust granted the Frank Bette Center for the Arts a $32,000 gift to commission a life size bronze sculpture of aviation to pioneer and author Amelia Earhart.

Colorado artist Jane deDecker has completed the clay forms, shown here, and I s now creating the lost wax molds. While the art works’s final location has not been decided, the Bette’s first choice for a site is at or near the Amelia Earhart Elementary  school at 2060 Challenger Drive; the decision remains with the state for final approval. Once the site is approved the artist will take one or two months to install the work. The hope is that this will be complete before the star of the 2015-2016 school year.

Alameda is a fitting location to commemorate Amelia Earhart whose last epic journey began at the Oakland Airport. Moreover, the message sent loud and clear to elementary students, particularly girls, is to dream big to accomplish big things.

The Davis Charitable Trust has been generous to the Frank Bette Center for the Arts. The foundation’s “mover and shaker,” Dick Davis, was a long time Alameda resident and still has family in the city. Davis is eager to share art with the public and he believes the Bette, as a community oriented art center, is a good partner.

The Amelia Earhart sculpture is the third grant the Frank Bette Center has received from the family foundation. The first exhibited the work of Miguel Diaz Guerrero depicting indigenous village life of the Nahuatl Culture. That project let to watercolor artist Margaret Fago and her husband, Fred, traveling to central Mexico to document  this year’s Easter Festival. Seama Santa, through photos, drawings and writing presented at an exhibition in November 2014.


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