Bio

Roberto Mighty, MFA, is a television producer/host, multimedia artist, filmmaker, educator and musician who uses interactive and online technology in his work.

January, 2022: “getting dot OLDER”, his new 13-part, half-hour, docu/talk public TV series, premieres on nationwide public TV, featuring intimate, personal interviews with baby boomers about their experience of aging. Presenting station Northern California Public Media and distributor American Public Television.

October, 2021: “World’s Greatest Cemeteries, Roberto’s 6-part, half-hour travel/history public TV series, premieres on nationwide public TV, featuring tours in and stories from international landmark burial grounds, emphasizing diversity. Presenting station Northern California Public Media and distributor American Public Television.

August, 2020: Roberto’s cutting-edge film about Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King, “Legacy of Love”, hosted by EMMY-Award winning journalist Rev. Liz Walker, debuted on WGBH public television to widespread acclaim.

March, 2020, Roberto was asked by Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital to produce their online Coronavirus Training Video series for doctors, nurses and other medical professionals. Roberto assembled a production team and worked around the clock for a month to complete that project, which is now training medical staff from around the world.

Roberto’s interactive exhibitions and artist talks take place online, in museums, colleges, galleries, community organizations and visitor centers. For over twelve years, he was an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College; an Instructor at Boston University, and privately teaches cinematography and digital video editing workshops, seminars and master classes. Roberto received his Master of Fine Arts in the Visual Arts from Lesley University's Art Institute of Boston in 2011 and his undergraduate degree in History from Boston University.

Funding History

Roberto Mighty’s work has been supported by grants and exhibitions at Harvard Forest, the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, The National Science Foundation, The National Trust for Historic Preservation, The Institute of Museum and Library Services, The Boston Foundation, The Cambridge Arts Council, and the Watertown Cultural Council.

Roberto was a Fellow at the Center for Independent Documentary/Kopkind Seminar and Retreat, Vermont, 2014;  Producer/Mentor - National Black Programming Consortium New Media Institute, Washington DC 2008/ 2009; and a Fellow at the National Association of Latino Independent Producers - Latino Producers Academy, Santa Fe, NM 2008.

Roberto lives and works in his loft studio in Boston’s Fort Point Channel arts district, is a member of the Fort Point Channel Artists’ Community, and Founder of the New England Media Coalition.

Previous Exhibits and Installations

For 2018-2019, Roberto is the sole Filmmaker commissioned to create a documentary film and multimedia exhibit about Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King’s early lives and fateful meeting as college students in the early 1950’s.

For 2017-2018, Roberto was appointed to write and direct four new original films on poetry by Robert Pinsky, United States Poet Laureate, for the Favorite Poem Project, archived at the United States Library of Congress.

For the years 2014-2017, Roberto was America’s first Artist-in-Residence at a National Historic Landmark Cemetery -- the 184 year old Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The 174 acre facility, founded in 1831, is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places and is a U.S. National Historic Landmark District. Roberto’s groundbreaking work there involved history, storytelling, filmmaking, fine art photography and multiscreen projections onto interior architectural surfaces of a 19th century gothic chapel.

In September, 2015, Roberto’s work as Projection Designer and Sound Designer was featured in the New England theatrical tour of the original play, “The Draft”, about the Vietnam War era, written by Peter Snoad and directed by Diego Arciniegas.

In July, 2014, Roberto premiered a multimedia piece, "Wind, Sand & Stars", based on the prose of French author Antoine de Saint-Exúpery (author of “The Little Prince”) in a group show at the Truro Art Center Gallery at Castle Hill in Truro, Massachusetts.

In Fall, 2013, Roberto completed four online videofilms on the plight of the Eastern Hemlock tree species, Tsuga canadensis.

In early 2013, Roberto’s film about ecology, “Cloud Lightning”, premiered at the National Science Foundation headquarters in Reston, VA.

In 2011-2012, Roberto was Artist-in-Residence at Harvard Forest.  His multimedia installation at Harvard’s Fisher Museum, “First Contact: Puritans, Native Americans and the Clash Over Land in 1630” successfully brought together members of the indigenous, academic and arts communities..

Roberto spent all of 2010 imaging trees using four types of cameras in a single American city. His subsequent multimedia exhibit, “Trees of My City”, premiered at The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University in January - March, 2011, and was on exhibit at the Scandinavian Cultural Center in Newton, Massachusetts, from September through December, 2013.

Prior to 2010, Roberto had a multifaceted career, including online video production; television producing; directing bestselling audiobooks; writing and engineering radio commercials; and music writing/producing. He worked with ABC/Hearst Affiliate television; HarperCollins, Random House and Houghton-Mifflin; Harvard University, MIT, Berklee College of Music; several brands, NGO's, government agencies, and many nonprofits.