
Judith also led one of the few women-owned design firms in Boston for twenty years, designing websites and promotional marketing literature for MIT, Apple, Lotus Development, Massachusetts General Hospital, IBM, Fidelity and many other Fortune 500 companies. She also earned a Master of Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Printmaking, a Master of Arts in Art History from Boston University and an undergraduate BS degree in Human Development from Cornell University. In 2003 she completed her Master of Fine Arts specializing in New Media from the Dynamic Media Institute at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. For the past four years she has won the Simmons President’s Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council Grant (PDIAC) for her program Diversity in Film Genres: Empowering Young Women of Color and Looking at Attitude Changes in the Simmons Community. Judith Richland teaches new media courses in the Communications Department at Simmons College, Boston, MA. She serves on the Curatorial Advisory Board of Miami Dade College Museum of Art + Design. Since 2014 she has covered the visual arts in South Florida for Hamptons Art Hub at Other publications she has written for include Arte Al Dia, a bilingual publication based in Miami and Buenos Aires, and Miami Rail. As Miami correspondent for ARTnews magazine, she has written numerous reviews, feature stories, and profiles regarding Miami’s art community. From 1995 to 2007, she was the Herald’s primary art critic, with international assignments to Cuba, Haiti, Italy, and Switzerland. Her career at the Miami Herald began in 1986. And she earned a BA in English from DePauw University. in Comparative Literature from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

She teaches writing at Miami Dade College and has guest-lectured at University of Miami and New World School of the Arts in Miami. Section, and ArtTable, a national organization for women in visual arts professions. An award-winning art critic and arts journalist, Elisa Turner is a member of the International Association of Art Critics, U.S.
