Education: Roberta Loach received a B.A. in Liberal Arts in 1964 and a M.A. in Painting, in 1968, at San Jose State University, San Jose, CA She essentially is self taught in etching but learned the multiple plate color etching technique at the Fort Mason Printmakers, San Francisco, CA.

Teaching: She taught Art History, and Design at West Valley College Saratoga, CA and Design Etching and Art Appreciation at De Anza College, Cupertino, CA from 1965 - 1972. Roberta has been a guest lecturer in numerous colleges, universities, art associations and centers among which, to name a few, are the San Jose State University, University of California, Berkeley, CA., College of the Pacific, Stockton, CA., Oakland Museum, Oakland,CA., San Mateo College, San Mateo, CA., Rutgers University, N.J, Portland Art Museum, and Lewis & Clark University, Portland, OR..

Editor, Writer: She has been a contributing editor, Artweek; Articles for Palo Alto Times.(1972). She founded, edited, and published Visual Dialog, (1975-1979) a quarterly fine arts journal and she published an article in the book: "Yesterday and Tomorrow", Midmarch Arts, New York.

Juried, Group & Curated Shows & Lectures : Roberta Loach has had numerous shows of juried and invitational exhibitions. The following list includes only those which she deems the most important:

In 1974 she was juried into the California Society of Printmakers.

She was a national juror and invited artist and panel participant for the National Women's Caucus for Art and was a guest artist at Artist's Proof, a lithography workshop, at Larkspur, CA.

In 1979 she had works juried into a national traveling show as part of a show with the Los Angeles Printmaking Society.

She co-curated and presented her work in the "Humor in Art" show at the Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA.

Roberta participated in a group show with the Fort Mason Printmakers at the World Print Gallery, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA.

An art show "Inside Out" at the Walnut Creek Civic Art Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA. featured several of her paintings.

In 1987 Roberta was the featured artist/lecturer, at the California Society of Printmakers annual exhibition. at the Euphrat Museum, De Anza College, featuring a lecture on her handbound book: "Fairy Tales for Art Lovers".

She was one of the "Twelve Artists" selected from over 150 women artists in the Bay Area for an exhibition at the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, in 1988.

At the Syntex Gallery, Palo Alto, CA. eight of her works were exhibited in "First Pull", an exhibit of monotypes.

She participated in a group exhibition entitled "For Better or Worse: Artists View of Romance" at the Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA.

She was guest curator of an exhibit "500 Years Since Columbus" and wrote the catalogue , 1992, for Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA..

She participated in a group exhibition entitled "For Better or Worse: Artists View of Romance" at the Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art.

A showing of her work of gouaches and acrylic, was part of a group show entitled, "Cause and Effect: Artists Response to Political Conflict" at the San Jose Institute , San Jose, CA.

She participated in a monoprint invitational show at Amerikahaus, in Stuttgart, Germany, 1993.

. Her work was shown in a group invitational show entitled "Artists Examine Environmental Issues," at the Jernigan Wicker Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA in 1997/98.

She co-curated with Eleanor Dickinson an exhibit entitled "Artworks 2000:Maestra!" The exhibition featured the following masters: Bella Feldman, Linda Fleming, Eleanor Dickinson, and Roberta Loach. Each "master" in turn selected four of their outstanding students for participation.

Solo Shows: There was a documentary of her work made at Chabot College by Dorothy Barlett.

In 1983 she had a show, retrospective, at Gregory Ghent Gallery, San Francisco.

The Bechtel International Center, Stanford, University, exhibited her work entitled, "Going To The Dogs".

In 1994 a show entitled "Rose Colored Glasses and Other Spectacles" was presented at Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA.

In 1995 she had a solo show of the "Vanishing Societies" series at the Michael Himovitz Gallery consisting of a series of twenty-six acrylics and gouaches. This work " is about the carelessness with which we treat our environment due to man's unrelenting greediness for money any way he can get it. The results of this attitude have been catastrophic. Rainforests in South America and many areas in Asia and Africa have felt significant depletion of their flora and fauna as well as creating a host of endangered animal species. Colorful indigenous tribes, which have added to the cultural richness of our world, have not just been driven out of their habitats, but have been driven to extinction. Plant life, which has been an invaluable source of medicines for fighting disease, have also seriously been threatened with extinction. As an artist who has watched this scene and its concomitent political indifference for about fifteen years, all I have as a weapon is my brush in order to express my hopelessness and grief about the situation" (Roberta Loach). The series also showed at the Sun Gallery in Hayward during the same year.

One particular show at this period was the "Survey Exhibition, 1989-1995 part of Bay Area Masters Series, at the Triton Museum of Art.

She was awarded a solo show at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art in 1996 by jurors: Sandra Phillips, curator, at the San Francisco Museum of Art and Karin Tsujimoto, curator at the Oakland Art Museum.

In addition she had a large show entitled, "Artists and Lovers" at the d.p.Fong Galleries, San Jose. This exhibition included paintings in acrylic, monotypes and etchings from her "Artists and Lovers" series, the "Romp of the Gods" series, and "Fairy Tales For Art Lovers" series respectively plus the handbound linen book of the "Fairy Tales For Art Lovers".

She also had a show of the "Artists and Lovers" series at the Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA in 2000.