Napa Valley

Art for peace, by Olaf Largeer. Submitted photo

Napa artist Jessel Miller launches ‘Peace Alliance’ to unite community through art

Jessel Miller was up at night.  Like many, she was worried about the precarious state of the world, the wars, the unrest, the lack of peace. The Napa artist and entrepreneur, who opened the Jessel Gallery 40 years ago and revived the Napa Valley Mustard Celebration, remembered a painting that she had made 20 years […]

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