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)
Four New Mayoral Portraits Allow Artists to Create Historic Narratives for the Future
While Baltimore's legacy of recent mayoral leadership is still in the making, these portraits offer concrete examples of the power of portraiture
A Baltimore context imbues the exhibition with the feeling of an ecclesiastic gathering of old friends, a family reunion, a sacred circle.
A quintessentially modern American painter, Sherald employs centuries-old painting techniques in order to arrive at images that belong in the art historical cannon
Exhibits at CPM, Galerie Myrtis, Creative Alliance, Goya Contemporary, UMBC, and Loyola's Julio Gallery
These are just a few of our favorite free exhibits happening this month.
The Gardens of Douglas & Tsognie Hamilton
Situated anonymously among vast swaths of verdant Baltimore County farmland, Tashiding is a marvel of landscape, architecture, art, and most of all a purposeful mixture of Eastern and Western traditions.
"The Return of American Pest" Confounds, Closes with a Reception on Saturday
American Pest feels intensely familiar and specific, yet it reflects nothing from my highly partisan social media feeds. It feels like entering into an America that exists... but I’m seeing it as if under water or on some other plane of reality that I have never visited before.
Materials Become Language in the 2025 Sondheim Finalist Exhibit at the Walters
The 2025 Sondheim Exhibit of finalists emphasizes the evocative power of materials in five mini solo exhibits.
Photos from Baltimore's First Affordable Art Fair
What does Baltimore investing intentionally in itself look like?
Photos from Artscape on Sunday, May 25 by Mollye Miller
Artscape's New Downtown Footprint in Photos: Artisan Market, Food Lab, New Murals, Concert Stages, Performances, and Sondheim Semi-Finalists at The Peale
Party Photos from BmoreArt's Release for Issue 19 on May 15
In Issue 19, we celebrate Baltimore’s “hidden gems” through the stories of individuals and organizations often operating below the public radar but making a solid contribution to city life.
Our new print journal features artists and organizations often operating below the public radar but making a solid contribution to city life.
Baltimore itself is a hidden gem. Sure, it has flaws, but for anyone who dares, it offers up sparkling and surprising opportunities that wildly exceed expectations.
Artist Zoë Charlton's Work is the First in the Initiative Unveiled in Station North
A lighting ceremony for Charlton's work at the North Avenue Market, was hosted with big crowds, programming, and performances.
A Conversation with Elena Volkova and Jonna McKone
At BmoreArt’s Connect+Collect Gallery Two Photographers Challenge Assumptions about Materials, Process, and Storytelling
