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)
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.
A Gala Opening for an exhibition of Historical Fashion and Runway Show
Guests for the Spectrum of Fashion Gala at the Maryland Historical Society on October 5, 2019, showed up wearing gowns, tuxedos, sequins, feathers, capes, and Christian Siriano originals, as well as creative offerings like a metal steampunk hat I only admired from a distance and a couple wearing Bhu
