As an artist focusing on social commentary issues, Myra Roberts' "Dream Peace" is her newest series of multimedia works in a project spanning the past two decades. "Dream Peace" features poster-style paintings of contemporary political injustices, portraits of Bielski partisans and other survivors of the Holocaust (some of whom were interviewed by the artist) and Armenian Genocide, testimonial videos, and spiritual/Buddhist paintings that evoke the antithesis of war.
In addition to "Dream Peace" works, Roberts exhibits selected pieces from her ongoing series "Florida Retro/Sunshine State" paintings. "Smokescreen: Prelude to the 1940s" is a selection of collages that depict American or German middle-class domestic life combined with images of Hitler's rise to power.
Roberts' paintings are in public and private collections across the United States and Europe, including the estate of Robert Rauschenberg. Roberts received letters of endorsement for her "Faces of Anne Frank" project from Hillary Rodham Clinton, and the Jane Goodall Institute. Roberts donates funds and artworks to organizations such as the following: WGCU Public Media, Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida, The Holocaust Museum & Education Center of Southwest Florida, the Ecostudies Institute of Mount Vernon, Washington; the Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife, Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, and SanCap Cares/Golisano Children's Hospital of Fort Myers.
The Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center hosted a retrospective exhibition of her works in January 2015. WGCU Public Media chose Roberts as one of five "2016 Makers: Women Who Make Southwest Florida." Nominated by the public, the selection of Roberts was based on her impact in the arts and social justice in Southwest Florida.
She has lectured and exhibited throughout the United States, including in Boothbay Harbor and Bar Harbor, Maine; at Cab Calloway School of the Arts in Wilmington, Delaware; in Chicago and Denver public schools, at Florida Gulf Coast University, the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida SouthWestern State College, Hodges University, The Holocaust Museum & Education Center of Southwest Florida, the Museum of the Everglades, and in galleries around Florida.
