Alma's profile
Alma Roberts is a self-taught, second generation, abstract expressionist artist, who at 62, began producing “fully formed compositions.” She has been in numerous group exhibits throughout the East Coast, including the 2025 Baltimore Met Gala exhibit, Timeless, the Creatively Black Baltimore Exhibit at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, as well as the traveling group exhibit, Harriet: A Taste of Freedom, currently at the Cayuga Museum of History & Art in Auburn, New York. She has had solo exhibits at Baltimore City Hall Galleries, the James E. Lewis Museum at Morgan State University, where she also has one of her works (A Vessel Full of Power) in the Museum’s permanent collection, Spiralis Gallery in Easton, Maryland, and in December, 2026, her work will be exhibited at the Benjamin Banneker Museum in Oella, Maryland. A growing number of prominent collectors have acquired her works including an acquisition by the prestigious “Gray Art Collection." Her works have been the cover art for magazines and professional journals (Black Mental Health Alliance, Healthy Living Magazine, Passager Literary Arts Journal) and is the cover art for a new book by bestselling authors, Drs. Lisa Delpit and Christopher Emdin (The Sacred Art of Teaching). Roberts is an active member of the Black Art Today Foundation global cohort of artists of color, as well as, being a member of the Tribe 55+ group of Black women, literary, and visual artists, 55 years and older. Roberts is one of the founding members of the Joshua Johnson Council at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the co-founder of the Baltimore-based Directors and Collectors Art Salon. She has served on the Boards of Maryland Art Place, the BMA, the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History and Culture, and is currently on the Board of Baltimore-based Wide Angle Youth Media. She is working on a book chronicling her journey from literary to visual artist, entitled, Other Than Words, as well as, a children’s book, Who Said I Can’t Fly , both are expected to be published in 2027.
