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)
A graduation ceremony is a symbol, a photo opportunity, a rite of passage, but doesn't live up to the hype in real life
Instead of a traditional ceremony, the class of 2020 has a chance to invest creative energy in unique, authentic, and personal forms of celebration
After Covid-19 postponement, Issue 09: Craft is coming! If you want to own it, please subscribe via our website.
Issue 09: Craft celebrates Baltimore’s incredible makers, visionary artists, and creative businesses
Whether hospitalized or at home, the recovery process from Covid-19 is complicated
It’s been three weeks since my ER doctor called to confirm that I tested positive for Covid-19 on April 3, a full 14 days after qualifying for a test that should have been available the first day I had a fever of 102—not eight days and a serious bout of pneumonia later.
Home fashion is all about comfort and entertainment
An assortment of Baltimore creatives wearing pajamas, evening gowns, vintage, and homemade facemasks
SewLab and other small creative businesses are saving lives in Baltimore
These four-layered bamboo/cotton, antimicrobial fabric masks are perfect for daily wear and extending the lifespan of N95 masks for healthcare professionals.
Photos of Guests at the Baltimore School for the Arts Beloved Annual Gala
Grammy-level performances, beautiful decorations, hands-on art workshops, and 500 of Baltimore's best-dressed individuals
Amber Eve Anderson, Lance Bankerd, Se Jong Cho, Ami Dang, Taha Heydari, Eze Jackson, Leslie King-Hammond, Amanda McCormick, Deyane Moses, and Ernest Shaw
For visual artists, curators, performers, composers, and publishers, the purposeful creation of new archives, as well as the respectful transformation of past collections, is a common threat that unifies us on a quest to tell new stories and to diversity existing archives.
The view from Latin America's largest art fair
Unlike Basel, where you know the names of every single artist and gallery, at Maco there was so much space for discovery.
Heidi Daniel and the Enoch Pratt Free Library
Libraries as places of possibility regardless of social class enabled Daniel to experience a larger world outside the one she lived in and imagine a variety of prospects that life might hold for her. That capacity drives her vision for the Pratt.
Mexico City's Artist-Centric Art Fair
Material is a young art fair but is now all grown up, both figuratively and literally.
What do you wear to the Pratt Contemporaries annual Black and White Party?
Whether guests were lions, bears, flying monkeys, or straight-up divas in black and white, this event felt exceptional without being stuffy, lavish but not vulgar.
Fleishman Is in Trouble, Three Women, and Queenie
If there are any men who want to understand the way a woman’s mind and body works, kindly add these three books to your list.
