Prize Winner 2019:
Cara Ober
Cara Ober is an artist, arts writer, curator, and the founding editor and publisher at BmoreArt, Baltimore's art and culture magazine. 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 Maryland. In 2019, she was awarded a Rabkin Prize and was commissioned by the Andy Warhol Foundation to write "Artspeak and Audience" for Common Field's Field Perspectives Series. Ober has published articles in New York Magazine, Hyperallergic, Burnaway, Art Papers, ARTnews, The Baltimore Banner, and BmoreArt. Cara has taught and lectured at Maryland Institute College of Art, 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.