Janet Howell and her husband, David Domeniconi, have devoted much of their lives to the arts and to celebrating California’s rich creative heritage.

Janet is a former director of the Carmel Art Association, the second-oldest nonprofit artist cooperative in the United States. During her tenure, she curated historical exhibitions celebrating important early California artists and produced two retrospective books from those exhibitions, The Legacy of Percy Gray and E. Charlton Fortune, 1885–1969. She has also served on the boards of several arts and community organizations in Carmel, Healdsburg, and Cloverdale, including the Center for Photographic Art and Healdsburg Center for the Arts. Her community involvement has included serving as curator and project manager for the Cloverdale Sculpture Trail, a rotating juried exhibition of public art.

In 2003, Janet and David returned to Sonoma County, where Janet grew up, and opened J. Howell Fine Art in Healdsburg. In 2025, they relocated the gallery to Mendocino, continuing their commitment to representing contemporary California artists and sharing their work with collectors and art lovers.