Jessel Miller
Encyclopedia
Jessel Miller is an American watercolor artist
and children's writer.
She graduated from the University of Florida
and moved to Oakland, California
in 1971.
She had a one person show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
in 1980, "Bay Area Personalities", watercolor portraits of Maya Angelou
, Herb Caen
, Louise Cavis, Melvin Belli
and Diane Feinstein.
In 1984 she opened the Jessel Gallery in Napa, California
.
It began with 300 square feet (27.9 m²) and 30 artists and 15 years later, the gallery is 9000 square feet (836.1 m²) and is 300 artists strong.
She writes and illustrates children's books.
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and children's writer.
Life
Her father was a country doctor/artist, and mother was a festive singer, poet and entertainer.She graduated from the University of Florida
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...
and moved to Oakland, California
Oakland, California
Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...
in 1971.
She had a one person show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is a modern art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art and was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th century art...
in 1980, "Bay Area Personalities", watercolor portraits of Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou is an American author and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly...
, Herb Caen
Herb Caen
Herbert Eugene Caen was a Pulitzer Prize-winning San Francisco journalistwhose daily column of local goings-on, social and political happenings,...
, Louise Cavis, Melvin Belli
Melvin Belli
Melvin Mouron Belli was a prominent American lawyer known as "The King of Torts" and by detractors as 'Melvin Bellicose'. He had many celebrity clients, including Zsa Zsa Gabor, Errol Flynn, Chuck Berry, Muhammad Ali, Sirhan Sirhan, the Rolling Stones, Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker, Martha...
and Diane Feinstein.
In 1984 she opened the Jessel Gallery in Napa, California
Napa, California
-History:The name Napa was probably derived from the name given to a southern Nappan village whose people shared the area with elk, deer, grizzlies and cougars for many centuries, according to Napa historian Kami Santiago. At the time of the first recorded exploration into Napa Valley in 1823, the...
.
It began with 300 square feet (27.9 m²) and 30 artists and 15 years later, the gallery is 9000 square feet (836.1 m²) and is 300 artists strong.
She writes and illustrates children's books.