Now as an executive director of the Tampa Bay Businesses for Culture & the Arts, Zora Carrier, PhD is
responsible for leading one of the one of the national Business Committees for the Arts, part of the
private sector network and national pARTnership Movement of Americans for the Arts with exciting and
far-reaching strategic initiatives that are transforming the Tampa Bay cultural community, making it
more accessible, diverse, and inclusive.
Zora Carrier, who has decades of experience as a cultural strategist, came to Tampa Bay Businesses for
Culture & the Arts from the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, where she was executive director
from 2014 to 2022. Before her tenure at FMoPA, Carrier was the executive director of the Open Concept
Gallery in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a position she also held at the Gallery Art Factory in Prague, Czech
Republic.
A native of Bratislava, Slovak Republic, she graduated from Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak
Republic, with a doctoral degree in pedagogy.
Carrier curated such exhibitions as Stephen Wilkes: Day to Night; Viktor Freso: Mirroring Me; Olivia
Parker: Vanishing in Plain Sight; North and South: Berenice Abbott’s U.S. Route 1; Patty Carroll:
Anonymous Women: Camouflage and Calamity; Bruce Dale: Beyond the Lens; Chris Buck: Magnificent
Hurt; Linda Connor: Gravity and many more. She is lecturing widely on art education and collecting.
Carrier has been a member of the National Art Education Association, National Guild for Community
Arts Education, Association of Fundraising Professionals, and Association of Art Museum Directors and is
serving on St. Petersburg College Advisory Committee.
responsible for leading one of the one of the national Business Committees for the Arts, part of the
private sector network and national pARTnership Movement of Americans for the Arts with exciting and
far-reaching strategic initiatives that are transforming the Tampa Bay cultural community, making it
more accessible, diverse, and inclusive.
Zora Carrier, who has decades of experience as a cultural strategist, came to Tampa Bay Businesses for
Culture & the Arts from the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, where she was executive director
from 2014 to 2022. Before her tenure at FMoPA, Carrier was the executive director of the Open Concept
Gallery in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a position she also held at the Gallery Art Factory in Prague, Czech
Republic.
A native of Bratislava, Slovak Republic, she graduated from Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak
Republic, with a doctoral degree in pedagogy.
Carrier curated such exhibitions as Stephen Wilkes: Day to Night; Viktor Freso: Mirroring Me; Olivia
Parker: Vanishing in Plain Sight; North and South: Berenice Abbott’s U.S. Route 1; Patty Carroll:
Anonymous Women: Camouflage and Calamity; Bruce Dale: Beyond the Lens; Chris Buck: Magnificent
Hurt; Linda Connor: Gravity and many more. She is lecturing widely on art education and collecting.
Carrier has been a member of the National Art Education Association, National Guild for Community
Arts Education, Association of Fundraising Professionals, and Association of Art Museum Directors and is
serving on St. Petersburg College Advisory Committee.