Dear LRMA Community,
We’re pleased to share that Christine Renc-Carter has accepted a new position with the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art as it’s Executive Director. She previously held the title of Curator. You can learn more about Renc-Carter below!
Immersed in the Tampa Bay arts community since a young age, Christine Renc-Carter has spent a lifetime deeply rooted in the pursuit of art. Her career spans 24 years as a museum professional, working with cultural institutions throughout the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area and Florida.
Since joining St. Petersburg College in 2009, her mission has been to engage and inspire others through the power of art and education. As the Curator for the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art (LRMA) at SPC’s Tarpon Springs Campus, since 2016, she has elevated LRMA’s presence locally and nationally through high-profile exhibitions, integrated technology, public engagement, and expanding the collection with major art acquisitions. Recently, she led LRMA into its 20th Anniversary year with masterworks exhibitions, programs with nationally known scholars, and an opening celebration that reengaged stakeholders and community members.
Renc-Carter attended the Maryland Institute, College of Art on scholarship and earned a BFA in Printmaking in 1997. Spending 13 years in Baltimore, MD, she worked with a prominent gallery handling high-end clients, corporations, and government agencies. At the Baltimore Museum of Art, she worked with the world’s largest collection of Matisse and Picasso and studied paper preservation at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Returning to Florida in 2005, she oversaw the collections and exhibitions for the Vero Beach Museum of Art and the Gulf Coast Museum of Art (GCMA).
Managing the transfer of the GCMA collection to the SPC Foundation in 2009, Renc-Carter established the Foundation’s art collection, partnered with departments collegewide, and engaged students through public art and programs that included international artists. She also curated major exhibitions for the Florida International Museum (FIM) at SPC Downtown. Between the GCMA, FIM, and LRMA, she has managed three museum transitions under the college. Prior to joining LRMA, Renc-Carter was the Director of Adult Education at the Dunedin Fine Art Center, where she directed an active art school of 85 instructors, increased enrollment and oversaw the center’s expansion of state-of-the-art studios on multiple campuses.
As an accomplished artist, Renc-Carter shows her mixed media work throughout the U.S. and Japan. Her work is collected by the Marriott Corporation and NBC, as well as private collectors worldwide, including the Curator of the Fogg Museum at Harvard University.
Learn more about Renc-Carter in this recent article from Tampa Bay Newspapers’ The Beacon.