AWTT welcomed middle-school and high-school students and their faculty sponsors for the 2025-26 Samantha Smith Chellenge kick-off event at Orono High School on November 13, 2025. In 2025-26 the Samantha Smith Challenge is getting a redesign. Instead of ending the SSC year with a big celebration of student projects—as AWWT has done in past years—we’re flipping the script, starting […]
See AWWT portraits at the Paul Smith’s College VIC during the month of November 2025 and meet Bill McKibben on his book tour on Nov. 21.
Seton Hall University and the South Orange Performing Arts Center (SOPAC) are bringing Americans Who Tell the Truth to South Orange, New Jersey for the month of October 2025.
The South Parkersburg Library in Parkersburg, West Virginia, is hosting an exhibit of ten AWTT portraits from October 18 to November 17, 2025.
When I was a kid, I loved cowboy movies. In a frequent motif, the handsome sheriff, wounded in a duel with a nasty desperado, whom he had killed, limped into the town’s saloon and wincingly asked the tipsy doctor, “How bad is it, Doc?” A pretty woman of sketchy repute, who worked in the saloon […]
On September 22, 2025, at 7 p.m. ET, AWTT artist Robert Shetterly will join Brandon Bauer, Rosie Davila, and Becky McIntyre to talk about art and non-violence. The program kicks off a series of online panel discussions sponsored by Pax Christie International’s Catholic Non-Violence Iniatitive. “How can visual arts be used as a tool for […]
AWWT will share educational resources with Washington County, Maine educators at the online Harvest of Ideas conference, October 14, 2025.
As Labor Day 2025 approaches, we are mindful of all of the labor advocates who have gone before us, improving the lives of working people. If you go to the AWTT portrait gallery and filter for “worker’s rights,” you’ll find forty such outstanding figures who have fought and sacrificed over the decades, to bring workers […]
We like balance, fairness in everything we do. A square deal. Our financial lives are based on the notion of equivalency—getting what we pay for. Equivalence is used as the basis for settling a score—He did it first! It’s the central tenet of physics—for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Ethical equivalencies, […]
Outdoor, large-scale image projections of AWTT portraits in Belfast, Maine on September 12, 2025.