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)
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
Nine Gallery Shows in Baltimore this April
Exhibits at C. Grimaldis, Creative Alliance, Eubie Blake, Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower, Current, New Door, Goya Contemporary, MONO Practice, and Waller Gallery
The Current Exhibit at BmoreArt's C+C Space is the First of Three Based on Our City of Artists Book
City of Artists, BmoreArt's first full-length book, sold out in December, but is now available through a second printing
