Robert Shetterly was invited to Bozeman, Montana for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2015. He spent four days there, visiting schools, working with students at Montana State University, and giving a public talk for the citizens of Bozeman. After the visit, Ariel Donohue, one of the event organizers, said this about Rob’s visit: “Rob has […]
Advice to readers: Read all the way to the end! I have expended a lot of energy condemning torture. Not because of the efficacy argument (it doesn’t work), but because of the morality (it’s obscenely dehumanizing to everyone involved). I painted a portrait of the CIA torture whistleblower John Kiriakou – still the only high […]
Artist Robert Shetterly reflects on the commercialization of the Christmas Truce of 1914.
“The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.”— Henry David Thoreau I remember the hilarity of popping birthday balloons when I was a kid – that tiny, anxious hiatus between pressing some sharp object against the balloon’s skin and the sudden, irreversible explosion. Then racing […]
AWTT education director Connie Carter reflects on her afternoon at the symphony.
This is what you shall do: love the earth and the sun and the animals . . . – Walt Whitman Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring in 1962, but I suspect that for most people reading it today, the information would be fresh, enlightening, and alarming. I can say that with some confidence because though […]
When I play with my grandson, we suspend the logic of reality. Toy dump trucks fly, giraffes talk with polar bears, gravity is a joke, a paper airplane zigzags twenty feet and has circumnavigated the Earth, an 18″ high wobbly block tower is the Empire State Building. Mortality is a hiccup. Such is the logic […]
How the Chimney-sweepers cry Every blackning Church appalls, And the hapless Soldiers sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls.— William Blake, London A friend asked me, since the Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait project originated as my reaction to the criminal US attack on Iraq, how I felt about the escalating violence in Iraq. […]
You have what you desire: the new Rome, the Sparta of Technology and the ideology of madness.–Mahmoud Darwish I returned a few days ago from Palestine, where I was part of Lily Yeh‘s Barefoot Artists team recruited to paint a mural in each of three places – the Balata Refugee Camp, the Old City of […]
Artist Robert Shetterly learns a discouraging lesson from kids, who don’t know who Shirley Chisolm was.