MY HERO Student Art Contest

Americans Who Tell the Truth is pleased to be partnering again this year with the MY HERO Project to offer a student art contest.

Finding Courage in Community

First Church of Cambridge features AWTT portraits in Lenten Series: Finding Courage in Community – February 14 through March 31, 2024.

Mary Oliver, a Grasshopper and Gaza

Early on in the Americans Who Tell the Truth project I traveled to West Virginia and eastern Kentucky to witness for myself what Mountaintop Removal (MTR) coal mining looked like. I wanted to see the devastation I’d been reading about and meet some of the courageous activists trying to stop it (Judy Bonds, Larry Gibson, Teri Blanton). […]

What Is a Maine Story?

Americans Who Tell the Truth is pleased to be featured in Bangor Public Library’s year-long series “What is a Maine Story?”

AWTT and Truth Tellers travel to Bethel, Maine

Join Bethel Area Arts & Music (BAAM) in welcoming Robert Shetterly and his documentary Truth Tellers to Bethel on Friday, February 2nd.

View Truth Tellers Documentary on PBS

The compelling documentary Truth Tellers will be aired around the country this winter on local PBS affiliate stations and on PBS’s WORLD Channel. 

Chester Children’s Chorus Reprise

Artist Robert Shetterly and the AWTT staff can’t stop talking about their visit to Swarthmore last weekend for the Chester Children’s Chorus concert and Shetterly’s unveiling of Music Director John Alston‘s portrait. The event was in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. After the unveiling Alston picked up the portrait, which had been placed on […]

Civil Rights Portraits at St. Joseph’s College

St. Joseph’s College of Maine hosts a civili rights themed AWTT portrait exhibit from January 15 to February 15, 2023. 

White Privilege, Black Portraits, Whose Story?

Last September Connie Carter, AWTT’s education director, and I had the opportunity to visit the Maine State Prison and share the documentary Truth Tellers  with a group of prisoners. Connie and I previously wrote about the revelations of that visit. But there was an aspect of the event which I thought deserved more serious attention because […]

Some 2023 Highlights

What’s been happening in the AWTT portrait gallery this past year?