Cara Ober
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)
Stories By Cara Ober
A Lament: The Contemporary
What We All Lose with the Termination of The Contemporary
The Contemporary prioritized diversity and authentic conversation in a city that desperately needed it, and took the time necessary to do copious research and build respectful relationships, rather than bulldozing an ego-driven agenda or leveraging art
Saving Museums from Extinction
At The Pérez Art Museum, Contemporary Local Artists are the Key to Thriving Museum Culture
I was shocked that the visible presence of local working artists was seen as an asset, rather than a liability, by this particular institution.
