Executive Director & Publisher
Cara Ober is an artist, arts writer, curator, and the Executive Director and Publisher at BmoreArt, Baltimore’s platform for art and culture, which includes web and print publishing, artist books, a gallery, and events series. She writes regularly about artist, museum, and material culture, with emphasis on context and subtext in the art world. In 2022, Ober was awarded the Sue Hess Legacy Arts Advocate of the Year Award in MD.
In 2019, she was awarded a Rabkin Art Writers Grant and was commissioned by the Warhol Foundation to write “Artspeak and Audience” for Common Field’s Field Perspectives Series. In addition to her regular writing and editing for BmoreArt, Ober has published articles in New York Magazine, Hyperallergic, Burnaway, Art Papers, ARTnews, and currently writes a monthly art column at The Baltimore Banner.
Cara has taught and lectured at MICA, Johns Hopkins, American University, UMBC, and Goucher College. She holds an MFA in painting from MICA and a degree in fine arts from American University. You can email her at [email protected]. (Photo Credit: E. Brady Robinson)
Why is a painting of a nude woman by a woman potentially offensive, but not one by a man?
Lisa Yuskavage’s porn-inspired, rainbow-hued paintings of women in fantasy landscapes are featured at the BMA through Sept 19 in Wilderness, a survey show co-organized with the Aspen Museum of Art
At Baltimore's Milk & Ice Vintage, Clothing Offers Histories of Resilience and Innovation
Models Abbey Parrish and Paris Roberts bring historic vintage pieces to life in a photo essay by Jill Fannon
This photo essay by Gregory McKay might make you fall in love with Baltimore
Harmonious images of Baltimore created after six years, tens of thousands of photos, and thousands of miles on a bike with a camera.
The myth of museum neutrality, why slowing down matters, and making authentic structural changes
Culture Strike is essential reading for art museum professionals, board members, artists, and cultural community members
Dyer explores the shaky balance between overconsumption and deprivation
Nicole Dyer has an intimate knowledge of scarcity and overindulgence, and her exuberant canvases, papier-mâché sculptures, and installations explore the universal hunt for satisfaction through depictions of everyday products from the supermarket that surround us.
Animals and infrastructure of the Baltimore Zoo
Tsucalas's work is punctuated with razor-sharp compositions, a curious sensitivity, and a plucky sense of humor, both romantic and critical.
The Orbis Tertius "Hlaer To Jangr" Project is ICA's last in their current space
Overwhelming in every sense and incredible in scale, scope, and color, the Orbis Tertius -Hlaer-to-Jangr exhibition at ICA Baltimore is a feast for the senses.
Spark IV at Maryland Art Place is a group exhibition featuring faculty and students from Towson U and UMBC
Altered time, imagined places, future focus, climate horizon, and equitable future are the themes explored in this multimedia group exhibition.
Photos by Jill Fannon capture these beautiful, tragic, and weirdly punctual insects
Brood X is the largest of all the cohorts of 17-year periodical cicadas, and they are here for just one reason.
New development in Station North making longtime residents and artists concerned about displacement and instability
Is there a way to bring much-needed investment to Greenmount West without displacing the artists?
An artist who combines sculpture, fiber art, and performance into rituals designed to venerate and heal
Tsedaye Makonnen focuses her work in particular on people migrating from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, historically and in the present day, drawing parallels between the two.
For every experience lost during this year of quiet, do we gain something else?
I tend to pair images together to complicate things, to show that my life is not one thing or another, that there is always a subtext or a tangent or a side story and nothing is simple.
