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)
December exhibitions that provide hope, insight and inspiration, centered specifically in the past, present and future of Baltimore
As we head towards 2025, it's worth remembering that artists see the future in ways the rest of us don’t, so we have to keep our attention focused on them so we can find new sources of strength and solidarity.
Party Photos by Jill Fannon and E. Brady Robinson
The BMA 110th Gala and After Party was a Who's Who of Artists, Patrons, and Political Leaders–and Raised a Record-Breaking $1 Million
Five exhibits that unleash the power of underrepresented perspectives and materials
Fragile Beauty at Hillwood, Preoccupied at the BMA, Connie Imboden and Mark Kelner at the Katzen, and The Subversive Thread at Academy Art Museum
Maryland’s Democratic Champion for the US Senate
Maryland Cannot Afford to Turn the US Senate into Republican Control
Gallery Shows Perfect for Autumm's Back to School Attitude
Summer '24 at C. Grimaldis Gallery, Monica Ikegwu at Galerie Myrtis, Inaugural Exhibition at The Crow's Nest, Balancing Acts at The Peale, and Esther Kläs at CPM Gallery
Yet Again, Short-Sighted Newspaper Leadership Fails to Understand the Difference Between Quantity and Quality of Readership
The Washington Post is cutting their ongoing Galleries column, a loss to local readers, artists, and audiences.
A Conversation about Black Visual Artists Engaging in Material Concerns and the Cultural Implications
Seph Rodney, visiting curator, at CPM Gallery, talks about Chakaia Booker, Leonardo Drew, and Trenton Doyle Hancock
Fun Party Photos from BmoreArt's Release for Issue 17
Thank you to Shawn Chopra and good neighbor, Mera Kitchen, Baltimore Spirits Co., AND especially to BmoreArt Subscribers !!!!!!!!!
An Introduction to Issue 17: Transformation
We present the region’s courageous leaders, creative explorers, and ground-breaking thinkers who are envisioning a better future and joining with others to make these collective dreams a reality.
Preakness Photos by E. Brady Robinson
Along with weird horse names and laying a bet, the fashion at Preakness and other Triple Crown races is oddly traditional, a pageant of who's who in pastel suits, bowties, fancy hats, and floral dresses.
Exhibits at Baltimore Jewelry Center, Clayworks, Peale, and CPM
Stories conjured in plastic, clay and wood: 4 art exhibits mix meaning and material
Women’s Autonomy and Safe Spaces: Erin Fostel, Lynn McCann-Yeh, and Cara Ober
In Conjunction with BmoreArt’s C+C Exhibit featuring Fostel’s charcoal drawings of women’s bedrooms, a conversation with the Co-Director of the Baltimore Abortion Fund
