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)
Jackie Milad talks about her solo booth at the Armory Show, a residency at the Academy Art Museum, a travel grant, and a BMA commission
Considering the process of an art career in conjunction with creating good art is essential in achieving goals that might have previously been unattainable
How the artist balances athletic, energetic personal work with a bustling creative business
Walker hitchhiked to Baltimore at age 18 and fell in love with the architecture and culture of the city immediately.
Nancy Dorman and Stanley Mazaroff’s Bucolic Space for Contemporary Art
The rich patina of age and nature upon the original structure, a significant work of art in itself, elevates the unique contributions of contemporary artists to this region.
John Tyler, a multi-instrumentalist, created Love Groove Festival to enable visual, musical, and performing artists to mix
“I was so in love with everything, and it seemed like a good way to bring different communities together," Tyler says.
A photo essay featuring Baltimore-Washington jazz musicians performing live
A photographer on a mission to document jazz musicians during COVID-19 hardships
Richard Serra’s new installation and a Museum Guard-curated Exhibition at the BMA
Mini reviews of exhibits at the Glenstone Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore Pride Takes to the Sea
Photo Essay: A Three Hour Cruise Featuring the Absolutely Dragulous Brunch Bunch
Venues, artwork, artists, and participants in the Bromo District's Celebration of Art Spaces
Highlights from the Bromo Arts District including Nomü Nomü, Black Genius Art Show, Maryland Art Place, Lexington Market, Current Space, Le Mondo, and more
The artists with roots in Ukraine and Russia discuss war, photography, solidarity, and support
This war is gruesome, immoral, and cruel—both to the Ukrainian people, civilians targeted every day, and to the Russian soldiers who are dying for a cause many of them do not believe in.
Succinct reviews of three must-see exhibitions in Baltimore this weekend
CENTENNIAL: On The Topic Of Now at Current Space, Open House: Art, Craft, and Domesticity at MICA's Decker Gallery, and a new art gallery/retail space in the former ICA Baltimore building on North Avenue.
The LLC, 405-417 East Oliver Street Partners, closed on the four-story, 71,744-square-foot building for $3.8 million
The legendary Greenmount West artist studio and exhibition space, owned and operated by artists since 2002, was sold to an LLC formed by the nonprofit Central Baltimore Partnership and real estate developer Ernst Valery on March 8, 2022.
Women's first-round CIAA Championships: Virginia Union vs. Claflin
Moves, thrills, and sportsmanship as Baltimore hosts the 2021-22 CIAA Men's and Women's Basketball Championships
