In a career shaped by immersion in the creative fields, principal Judith
Turner-Yamamoto has worked in every aspect of the arts from alternative spaces,
galleries, magazines, and museums, serving as curator, administrator, acting director,
contributing editor, art critic, and head of public affairs, where she developed contacts
in the museum, editorial, design, and arts communities. Prior to starting pickworthbelcommunications, she was head of public affairs for the Smithsonian's
American
Art
Museum
and its Renwick Gallery and a project director for SITES, the Smithsonian
Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. She spent 15 years writing full-time on the
arts, architecture, food, interiors and home products, fashion, travel, and design,
securing feature assignments in publications such as The Boston Globe Magazine, Elle,
City, Travel & Leisure, Colonial Homes, Home & Design, Neiman Marcus The Book,
USAir Magazine, Hearst Special Publications, The Los Angeles Times, Classic American
Homes, American Photo, and Southern Accents, and she continues to contribute to select
publications. An award-winning fiction writer and poet, she graduated with high honors
from Guilford College with Bachelor's degrees in art history and Spanish and holds a
Masters degree in art history from the American University.
Creative Director
Amy Pickworth has extensive experience in the arts as a visual artist and teacher
and, since 1993, as a writer and editor
for various Smithsonian organizations, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and
the National Museum of the American Indian. Most recently she completed the film script
and website for the retrospective Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian, a major
two-part exhibition on view at the
Smithsonian
National
Museum
of the American Indian in
New
York
and
Washington
beginning November 2008. She works regularly with the Rhode Island
School of Design and the
RISD
Museum
and recently served as the marketing and public
affairs coordinator for the FirstWorks Festival, a month-long series of performing-arts
events sponsored by the city of
Providence
. Before moving to
Rhode Island
, Amy also wrote
about galleries for washingtonpost.com. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa
from Ohio Wesleyan University with a bachelor's degree in painting and drawing,
and she holds an M.Ed. in arts education from the
University
of
Maryland at College Park
. 
Creative consultant
Carrie Ann Miller
was a media specialist for the
Smithsonian's
American
Art Museum
and the Renwick Gallery. She was an associate editor at
American Style Magazine before becoming marketing and public relations director for
Bibelot Bookstores, an independent chain in
Baltimore,
Maryland
. She is a marketing
specialist for architectural firms. She has a bachelor's degree in English from Salisbury
State University, Maryland.
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