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)
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.
Bromo Arts District's New Director, a VP at Deutsch Foundation, new BMA curators, and more
Emily Breiter becomes Bromo Arts District director, Jessica Solomon named VP at Deutsch Foundation, BMA expands contemporary curatorial department, and more
Best Baltimore Exhibits, Projects, and Experiments 2010-2019
Baltimore’s pool of talent is an ever-expanding universe.
The Great Gatsby, the theme of MAP's fall benefit, inspired headdresses, vintage gowns, feathers, and a lot of fabulous jewelry.
Varied responses from women on the BMA’s Announcement to Collect “Only Women” in 2020
Institutional critique from women working in the arts on the importance of making lasting, structural changes rather than vague pronouncements on equity for women in museum collections.
On Thursday, November 7, BmoreArt hosted a release party at the Pratt Library in Mount Vernon with 400+ featured artists, contributors, and friends of the publication
The theme of Issue 08 is Archive, and our team explored the theme as a practice and a concept, interpreting it broadly and in a Baltimore-centric way that celebrates the past and the present.
