Josephine is the director of Arader Galleries in St. Helena where she specializes in historically important maps of Westward Expansion and 16th -19th Century natural history artwork.
She believes that the watercolors, color plate books, and cartographic works which were produced by natural historians from the 16th – 19th centuries, can give us a poignant understanding of the times from which they originate as they bring the past into the present with vivid power.
She has acted as the Treasurer of the Antiques Dealers Assoc. of California and is regularly called upon to vet works on paper at Antique Shows. She has also served as a judge for botanical art shows.
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John Alexander has devoted himself to museum work for 25+ years. Between the Museum of Modern Art, Morgan Library & Museum in New York and more recently at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), he has worked extensively on a variety of exhibitions as well as collection stewardship topics. John has worked on exhibitions with the world’s most renowned museums including the Getty, LACMA, the Louvre, Tate, Alberina and Uffizi.
He has done freelance curating and lectured on museum subjects at universities in New York, Connecticut and Valladolid, Spain and participated in museum-related symposiums in Boston, Houston, Madrid and London. John holds BA in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin and pursued graduate studies also in Art History at the City University of New York., Hunter College.
Susan is a proud 4th generation San Franciscan and 5th generation native Californian and has happily called St. Helena her home for the past 22 years.
Susan currently produces live events in the Napa Valley as well as around the country. She is currently serves on the board of UpValley Family Center and the White Barn.
Susan did a 5-year, part time stint with the St. Helena Chamber of Commerce, producing Chamber Events and the Weekly newsletter as well as conducting member outreach. Simultaneously she has been a project manager for Wine, Women & Shoes.
For 12 years Susan served as Director of Creative Services for ASE Group, a boutique and branding company. She also ran Dureya Floral Designs and Events. She earned a BA in Theater Arts from San Francisco State University.
Jason Daniels is an Associate Professor of History at California State University, East Bay. His research focuses primarily on the eighteenth-century Anglophone Atlantic world. His current research project examines the socio-economic and cultural histories of the Dickinson family estates in America, England, and Jamaica during the long eighteenth century. He has published articles in a variety of academic journals.
His most recent book, Jonathan Dickinson’s or God’s Protecting Providence: An Early American Castaway Narrative, examines shipwreck and captivity in the American Southeast during the late seventeenth century. As a resident of St. Helena, he is pleased to bring his academic experience to the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum.
John grew up in St. Helena but also has family roots in Calistoga, Pope Valley, and Conn Valley. He is currently an employee of the United States Postal Service, and serves on the board of the St. Helena Cemetery Association and on the finance committee of Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish in Calistoga. An avid reader and book collector, he credits Stevenson Museum founder Norman Strouse with inspiring him.
The Robert Louis Stevenson Museum is open
Tuesday – Saturday from 12 to 4 PM
The Robert Louis Stevenson Museum depends on many sources to support our mission to preserve and promote the legacy of RLS
1490 Library Lane
P.O. Box 23
St. Helena, CA 94574
Tuesday 12 PM – 4 PM
Wednesday 12 PM – 4 PM
Thursday 12 PM – 4 PM
Friday 12 PM – 4 PM
Saturday 12 PM – 4 PM