Draft:Elisa Turner

• Comment: Please remove the external links. Tacyarg (talk) 22:45, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: Looking at your talk page, it seems that you have used WP:ANYBIO as the basis for notability, based on winning some awards and/or that the subject's speeches/books are part of the historical record. For a Living Person this is indeed a potential line of approach, however it's rare, unless the subject has won the Nobel Prize for Literature or translated the Bible into an obscure language for the first time. Moreover a subject can't just write, speak their way to notability, it hinges on other independent people writing, discussing the subject. The evidence used her for ANYBIO is way short of the requirements. Even being awarded a Purple Heart is not considered a senior enough award.
  For someone of this profile, it is unlikely they fulfill the notability guidelines, most writers do not do so. But if they did it's more likely they met one of the two much more frequently used paths for notability: WP:GOLDENRULE or WP:NAUTHOR. For the Golden Rule we would need 3 independent profiles in reliable sources, not interviews, giving significant coverage. Typically newspaper reviews on a writer's canon of work, maybe an academic or literary journal such as the New York Review of Books. So three such profiles. NAUTHOR is written in more nebulous language, but one way to see it is "two books, two reviews each book". The reviews need to be independent and offer significant coverage. Amazon / Goodread doesn't make the cut here, nor does publisher arranged comments. But if some reliable newspapers have done reviews on the books, more than a few sentence long, then that is the most likely route here. But to reiterate, most writers do not meet the notability guidelines, and I have not seen anything that persuades me here. ChrysGalley (talk) 08:25, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: I do not see anything independent that can be used for notability as the best reference is a piece in the Miami Herald for which she used to be employed. The others are simply listings of her works. CNMall41 (talk) 06:27, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

• Comment: May be notable, but amid the refbombing it is difficult to identify examples of significant coverage about Turner (rather than the many citations of work by her - as a journalist the latter are to be expected), excluding the numerous profiles that echo her self-penned profile. Please consider WP:GNG, WP:BIO and, particularly, WP:JOURNALIST; regarding the latter, perhaps highlight if/how Turner meets any of the four criteria. Paul W (talk) 17:23, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

Elisa Turner (born 1952) is an American award-winning art critic and journalist with a focus on international visual arts. Turner's writing chronicles the Miami art community, profiling the careers of artists who contribute to the contemporary cultural history of the area.^[1][2]Turner is a member of the International Association of Art Critics, U.S. Section, and ArtTable, a national organization for women in visual arts professions.^[3]

Career

Turner held teaching positions in writing at Miami Dade College (2009–2019) and has presented as a guest-lecturer at University of Miami and New World School of the Arts.^[4]

Turner's art journalism career for the Miami Herald newspaper began in 1986. Her writing has appeared in Artburst Miami, Art+Auction, Art Circuits, Arte Al Dia, ARTnews, Biscayne Times, Burnaway, Delicious Line, Fine Art Globe, Hamptons Art Hub, Hyperallergic, Florida International University ArtSpeak and Miami Rail.

Turner's papers are included in The Vasari Project archives, a library collection dedicated to documenting, collecting and preserving Miami‑Dade County's art history from 1945 to the present. Turner was the primary art critic at the Miami Herald from 1995 to 2007.^[5]

As Miami correspondent for ARTnews magazine (1984–2014), she contributed reviews, news reports and feature stories for national and international audiences. Turner profiled figures in the art community for the “City Focus” series on the Miami and South Florida art scene and covered prominent art collectors for the magazine's “Living with Art" series.^[6][7]

Personal life

Turner lives and works in Miami, Florida, where she is married and has two adult children.^[8]

Awards and recognition

Turner has been widely recognized for her arts and culture journalism and is the recipient of numerous awards for her work as an art critic in Florida. She was honored with The Richard E. Rice Gold Medal Prize for Visual Arts, Florida Book Awards (2025) for her book "Miami's Art Boom From Local Vision to International Presence"(2025)^[9], which also received support from a James L. Knight Foundation Grant (2024). The Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs inducted Turner into the Arts Hall of Fame (2025) and awarded her with the Miami Individual Artist Grant (2024). Turner received the Ellies Creator Award (2023) from Oolite Arts, Miami's visual arts award for individual creativity. The Society of Professional Journalists Florida Sunshine State recognized Turner in 2020 and 2021 with the First Place Award for Arts Commentary & Criticism and the Florida Chapter of ArtTable honored Turner with the Leadership Award (2019).^[10][11]

Turner's professional recognition outside of her home state of Florida include: The Rabkin Prize (2020) for her visual arts writing^[12] and Turner is the recipient of the Hamptons Art Hub Readers’ Choice, Top 15 Stories (2015- 2016).^[13]

Selected publications

Turner's essay “Milestones in Miami’s Coming of Age” published in "Making Miami: The Story of an Art Community," 2023, documented Miami’s art scene in the early 2000s, highlighting the pre-Art Basel era and the grassroots development of districts like Wynwood.^[14]Turner wrote the foreword for "Miami Contemporary Artists" by Paul Clemence and Julie Davidow, 2007, highlighting the cultural art evolution of Miami.^[15] Turner's anthology, "Miami’s Art Boom: From Local Vision to International Presence," 2025, is a collection of art journalism essays she authored (1987-2007), reflecting on the art history and cultural revolution in Miami, shaped largely by Caribbean and Latin America immigrants.^[16]

Turner's essay “The Ancestors: Active in Past, Present and Future” for the exhibition catalogue "A Call to the Ancestors," Little Haiti Cultural Complex, 2023, focused on the reclamation of historically Black spaces like Lincoln Memorial Park in the Brownsville neighborhood of Florida.^[17]Her essay “Chronicle on Miami 2000-2005,” for the exhibition "Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium" presented at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway, profiled a new generation of contemporary Miami based artists.

Selected public speaking

Since 2006 Turner has presented her scholarship in public lecture events and panel discussions. Her speaking engagements often center on cross-cultural exchange in Miami art communities, namely Latin and Afro-Caribbean diasporic influences.

• "Miami's Art Boom: Explore the Cultural Revolution," panel discussion with Elisa Turner, Kimberly Green and Edouard Duval-Carrié and moderated by University of Miami Associate Professor of Art History, Erica Moiah James. Lowe Art Museum, Miami.
• "Miami and the Making of a Global Art Hub," Art Basel 2025 Conversations, Miami.
• "Aesthetics of Transition: Conversation with Edouard Duval-Carrié and Elisa Turner," 2023, IPC ArtSpace, Miami’s Little Haiti, curated by Rebecca Friedman and Carl Philippe Juste.
• "Art Spotlights Rising Seas,” Creative Time Summit 2018, Pérez Art Museum, Miami.
• "Critical Discourse and Art Writing Symposium," 2015, Spinello Projects, Miami, moderated by Taylor Renee and Jessica Lynne, founders and editors of ARTS.BLACK.

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