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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,pickworthbell communications :: amy 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 . carrie_ann

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.