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)
What better event to host on International Women's Day?
As women's rights are being assaulted across the USA, a fashion show that challenges the status quo–and also, everything we think we know about pubic hair.
A Sampling of Local Artists Exhibiting in Museums and Galleries Outside of Baltimore This Month
Solo Exhibitions by Phaan Howng, Rene Trevino, Kei Ito, Latoya Hobbs, Murjoni Merriweather, Tony Shore, and Jackie Milad
Must-See Exhibitions in the Baltimore Region
10 Regional Art Exhibitions in Museums and Galleries Worth Exploring in February
Jason Steer comes to Baltimore by way of New York and London
Steer plans to build on CA's programmatic and fiscal strength, looking to build new structures for long-term thinking.
Best Art and Culture Writing in 2023 from BmoreArt
Memorable and Award-winning Essays, Illuminating Baltimore's Cultural Landscape in Unexpected Directions This Year
A Holiday Meal with the Experts from Classic Catering and Photographer Jill Fannon
Gathering at the table and pausing to appreciate one another is always the best gift.
A Sort of Recap on Ann Patchett and R. Eric Thomas in conversation via the Ivy Bookshop
I feel an affinity for these flawed but well-intentioned characters, but I think Patchett’s gift for innovation comes from plot structure and how a story functions in reverberating and disparate layers.
Sustaining Baltimore's Creative Ecosystem, A Photo Story at Sandtown Furniture Company
Stellarium Jewelry, The Modest Florist, La Loupe Design, Studio JMCG Jewelry, Camp Small, New Vintage by Sam, Bazaar, Local Color Flowers, Baltimore Spirits Company, Taste This Cake, Sacred Ashes, Baltimore Print Studios, Personal Best Ceramics, Milkweed Ceramics, 228 Grant Street Candles, Baltimore
How do we talk about liberty and injustice honestly, intertwined with aspects of race and gender in America?
Liberty & Injustice features labor-intensive, clever, immersive works of art that captivate and inform.
What is collaboration? And how do we know if it’s working?
Subscribers, Expect Your Copy of Issue 16: Collaboration this week!!
Beautiful Photos from BmoreArt's Magazine Release Party for Issue 16 at Peabody Library
BmoreArt’s subscribers have impeccable style and show up dressed for an occasion!
A Year Into Her Role as Successor to its Founding Director, AVAM Releases Jenenne Whitfield from her Contract
If an institution cannot successfully function without the direct engagement of its founding director, clearly it is not yet sustainable or ready to successfully onboard a successor.
