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)
Baltimore's Signature Arts Festival in Photos
Despite rain and cold weather at times, the crowds were substantial. The city once again transformed its business district into a temporary cultural destination.
Photos by KT Kanazawich from BmorArt's May 28 Release Party in MICA's Brown Center
What does "The Future" Look Like? Artists and Creatives, Subscribing Members, Show Up
Issue 21 Explores Models for the Future in Baltimore that are Human-Centered and Build Community
Who owns the future? In Baltimore, the creatives have a much greater role to play.
Artscape Returns with SCOUT Art Fair, curated by Devin Allen and Cierra Britton
SCOUT Art Fair returns to Artscape with a clear focus: platforming emerging Baltimore-based artists and making collecting more accessible.
Red Carpet Looks and Afterparty Wildness
The reimagined, ballroom-culture-infused spectacle clawed its way into the Broadhurst Theatre on April 7, 2026, serving looks, drama, and pure feline fabulousness.
Seen & Heard: A Video Conversation with Baltimore chef Spike Gjerde
Mount Vernon-ers, welcome to Bar Dali, your new favorite hangout
The modern Fête bridges MICA's 200-year history with contemporary artistic practice, and is a revival of events that originated in the late 1920s
MICA has leaned into this historic milestone by mining its rich and storied past, hosting a Bicentennial Gala called the Fête of Lights on February 21, at the Main Building and Cohen Plaza, featuring wearable art, art installations, a student-led fashion show, parade, and massive party.
Julia Kim Smith's Transit arrives at a moment when the language of displacement has become uncomfortably familiar.
Smith, the daughter of Korean refugees who immigrated to the United States after the Korean War, assembles fifteen years of work spanning video, text, embroidery, and blood into a reckoning that refuses the comfort of metaphor.
This year's Ornamenta theme is "Ruby," so all things RED will be trending!
The annual Baltimore Jewelry Center Gala Event on Feb. 7 offers dinner, drinks, dancing - and a jewelry auction featuring incredible wearable art.
Cinghiale’s Monthly Opera Salon Series Offers World Class Music Paired with Northern Italian Cuisine
Date Night Out in Baltimore Just Got More Theatrical
Four New Mayoral Portraits Allow Artists to Create Historic Narratives for the Future
While Baltimore's legacy of recent mayoral leadership is still in the making, these portraits offer concrete examples of the power of portraiture
A Baltimore context imbues the exhibition with the feeling of an ecclesiastic gathering of old friends, a family reunion, a sacred circle.
A quintessentially modern American painter, Sherald employs centuries-old painting techniques in order to arrive at images that belong in the art historical cannon
