Cara Ober, Founding Editor and Publisher at BMoreArt 42:28
Cara Ober was told print was dead and she created a luxurious, insightful, and deliberate print journal for the Baltimore art community. Cara talks with The Remix about how she sees the many facets of her life--both inside and outside the studio--as artwork; how she got a print journal off the ground; how she is a conscious and active member of the Baltimore artworld; and how she marches to the beat of her own drum. Creative collaboration is Cara’s passion and BmoreArt is a tool to capture her local art scene in a generous and generative way. She is doing the thing she looks for in institutions: to “seamlessly and elegantly represent the art from their place but put it into a global context.” Want to get Cara mad? Talk about exclusivity as an inevitable part of the art world, and do it in artspeak. Listen for details on exciting, newly formed and forming projects.
Cara Ober is the founding editor and publisher at BmoreArt, Baltimore’s art and culture magazine. She is a Baltimore-based artist, writer, culture producer, and curator. Cara writes about Baltimore's unique cultural landscape from the perspective of an artist and feminist. She approaches all kinds of cultural production from a constructive and critical perspective informed by material and pop culture, history, social movements, and politics. Over the past decade, Cara's critical reviews, essays, and interviews have explored the political and economic impact of the arts in Baltimore and the way artists maintain a professional practice and thrive in a city full of rich and diverse cultural traditions as well as serious social issues. She writes regularly about artist and museum culture and institutional values and the way they intersect and collide, assessing how this impacts artists, art communities, and establishes hierarchies and systems of value.
Cara is a recipient a 2019 Rabkin Arts Writers grant, the winner of a Mellon Arts Innovation Grant from Johns Hopkins University in 2015, a Grit Fund Grant from The Contemporary via The Andy Warhol Foundation in 2015, and a Warhol Grant for Emerging Curators in 2006. Cara earned an MFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art, an MS in Art Education from McDaniel College, and a BA in fine arts from the American University. Bmoreart.com caraober.com @bmoreart @caraober
