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MLB Announces Annual 'Lou Gehrig Day' Honoring Legendary Baseball, ALS Hero
"Lou Gehrig Day" will celebrate the life and career of the Hall of Fame New York Yankees first baseman who gracefully battled amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), now also known as "Lou Gehrig's disease," while also raising awareness and funds to fight the disease that now informally bears his name. “Major League Baseball is thrilled to celebrate the legacy of Lou Gehrig, whose humility and courage continue to inspire our society,” Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement shared on MLB.com. “While ALS has been closely identified with our game since Lou’s legendary career, the pressing need to find a cure remains. We look forward to honoring all the individuals and families, in baseball and beyond, who have been affected by ALS and hope Lou Gehrig Day advances efforts to defeat this disease Players, managers and coaches will wear a special uniform patch with red "4-ALS" (the logo bearing Gehrig's retired Yankees uniform number) wristbands available to be worn during games, as well as additional ceremonial details for each home stadium to be announced at a later date. Gehrig joins Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente as the only players to have a day reserved in their honor across Major League Baseball. Aligning with ALS Cure Project, Jessel Miller created this wonderful portrait of Lou Gehrig in support of their cause and in celebration of an upcoming event at the Jessel Gallery in 2022. The Jessel Gallery will host an ART AND WINE Fundraiser and the beautiful painting of Lou Gehrig will be Auctioned off that evening.. Dates to be announced PARTNERSPRESS |
In 2020, my whole artistic direction turned upside down. It began in December 2019 with the introduction of a different medium in my work. For the past 35 years I have worked exclusively in watercolors due to an allergy to oil paints.
Over the summer of 2019 I taught a class in Acrylic Painting to educate and play in a new medium. A light bulb went off in my head and I felt as though I had found a new path to express myself.
Portraits had been my focus for 15 years in my early days as an artists and my first major exhibition, which opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1982, focused on the faces of 25 well known Bay Area personalities. Maya Angelou, Herb Caen, Dianne Feinstein were just a few of the notable personalities I met and painted for the show.
I put faces away for years after this show and opened the Jessel Gallery in 1984 in the beautiful Napa Valley. I felt I needed to explore other subject matter, so for the next 10 years I did abstracts, landscapes, figurative beach scenes and still life paintings.
The gallery grew from 300 square ft to 7000 over the next 35 years and with the growth came less and less time for me to dedicate to my own art as I represented more and more talented artists.
It was the Holiday Show in 2019 that a shift began in my work. I painted 2 small abstract pieces to work with a Glass display of one of my talented glass artists, Patti Wessman, and when they were hung the flood gates opened and I dove face first into what has become the most productive year of my artistic life. I have completed over 350 pieces of art (and in the past years if I completed 10 pieces I was thrilled.)
The new direction I took was a culmination and assimilation of all my styles and directions throughout my 50 years as an artist. Faces, Forms, Abstraction and Color overtook my soul and I have worked exclusively in Acrylics for 12 months learning the in's and out's of this new medium.
Now another light bulb went off as I stood in the room filled with these new works.
In 1998 I wrote and illustrated a series of books aligned with the Napa Valley Mustard Festival. The trilogy became a branding force for the festival and a launching pad for a whimsical new direction in my work. I hand painted frames for 66 paintings that represented the pages of the 3 books.
Clearing out my barn on my property in November of 2020 I discovered some of the frames we did not use and decided to rework them to fit my newest painting. The next light bulb went off when I hung the Holiday Show, with my new pieces and these painted frames. Here was the new direction I needed to take.
All these new images represented the diverse and beautiful cultures of the world. I realized these images could be offered to help brand different Non Profits. It had worked to the Napa Valley Mustard Festival and it could work for other groups looking for a visual to support and enhance their brands.
I love to support causes and in the past have worked with such notable and powerful Non Profits including the V Foundation, Hands Across the Valley, The American Cancer Foundation and many more.
My intention is to seek out the Non Profits including the Hispanic Community, First Responders, Africa, Native Americans and Environmental causes including Animals and Earthly causes.
I believe the best use of my art is to touch the hearts of the souls who support these causes and build a global alliance uniting our diversities. Giving back and paying it forward go hand in hand.
I feel it is my time to do both.
Over the summer of 2019 I taught a class in Acrylic Painting to educate and play in a new medium. A light bulb went off in my head and I felt as though I had found a new path to express myself.
Portraits had been my focus for 15 years in my early days as an artists and my first major exhibition, which opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1982, focused on the faces of 25 well known Bay Area personalities. Maya Angelou, Herb Caen, Dianne Feinstein were just a few of the notable personalities I met and painted for the show.
I put faces away for years after this show and opened the Jessel Gallery in 1984 in the beautiful Napa Valley. I felt I needed to explore other subject matter, so for the next 10 years I did abstracts, landscapes, figurative beach scenes and still life paintings.
The gallery grew from 300 square ft to 7000 over the next 35 years and with the growth came less and less time for me to dedicate to my own art as I represented more and more talented artists.
It was the Holiday Show in 2019 that a shift began in my work. I painted 2 small abstract pieces to work with a Glass display of one of my talented glass artists, Patti Wessman, and when they were hung the flood gates opened and I dove face first into what has become the most productive year of my artistic life. I have completed over 350 pieces of art (and in the past years if I completed 10 pieces I was thrilled.)
The new direction I took was a culmination and assimilation of all my styles and directions throughout my 50 years as an artist. Faces, Forms, Abstraction and Color overtook my soul and I have worked exclusively in Acrylics for 12 months learning the in's and out's of this new medium.
Now another light bulb went off as I stood in the room filled with these new works.
In 1998 I wrote and illustrated a series of books aligned with the Napa Valley Mustard Festival. The trilogy became a branding force for the festival and a launching pad for a whimsical new direction in my work. I hand painted frames for 66 paintings that represented the pages of the 3 books.
Clearing out my barn on my property in November of 2020 I discovered some of the frames we did not use and decided to rework them to fit my newest painting. The next light bulb went off when I hung the Holiday Show, with my new pieces and these painted frames. Here was the new direction I needed to take.
All these new images represented the diverse and beautiful cultures of the world. I realized these images could be offered to help brand different Non Profits. It had worked to the Napa Valley Mustard Festival and it could work for other groups looking for a visual to support and enhance their brands.
I love to support causes and in the past have worked with such notable and powerful Non Profits including the V Foundation, Hands Across the Valley, The American Cancer Foundation and many more.
My intention is to seek out the Non Profits including the Hispanic Community, First Responders, Africa, Native Americans and Environmental causes including Animals and Earthly causes.
I believe the best use of my art is to touch the hearts of the souls who support these causes and build a global alliance uniting our diversities. Giving back and paying it forward go hand in hand.
I feel it is my time to do both.