Over twenty years ago, when AWTT artist Robert Shetterly began this portrait project to help himself cope with the United States’ bombing of Iraq, he didn’t anticipate the number of portraits that would follow, nor where they would take him. In the beginning, a few local schools and churches—curious about his project—invited him to talk […]
The Alice Moore Black Arts and Cultural Center of Albany, New York will host the unveiling of AWTT artist Robert Shetterly’s most recent portrait – of Dr. Alice P. Green – on Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 6 p.m.
Eight AWTT portraits will be on display from May 5 to May 30, 2025 at Waterville Junior High School in Waterville, Maine.
AWWT is delighted to be showing eight portraits at the Old Town Elementary School in Old Town, Maine this spring. The exhibit – opening on April 28, 2015 and ending on May 23 – is sponsored by Bangor Savings Bank. The school would also like to thank Old Town High School teacher Justin Lewin and […]
Students and faculty from the Monarch Learning Academy in Orlando, Florida will visit with AWTT artist Robert Shetterly in his home town Brooksville, Maine on April 26, 2025. At 2 p.m., they will hold a public discussion at the nearby Reversing Falls Sanctuary about their school-based projects which are aimed at reducing the use of […]
A collection of twenty portraits of American truth tellers who have made a difference in the world will be on display in the Oregon Episcopal School Chapel from April 28-May 30, 2025.
A friend asked me to write a little essay about being astonished. Astonished? . . . My first thought was a glass of cool water. Drinking it. The mysterious and momentary sublimity of that. Its sensuous, animal satisfaction, its poetic wonder. And then, water itself. A miracle. What is the direct line from the Big Bang to […]
Artist Robert Shetterly will unveil his most recent portrait: Rivera Sun on Sunday, May 4, at the Bay School in Blue Hill, Maine.
AWTT artist Robert Shetterly will be visiting the ongoing portrait exhibit at Syracuse University’s Maxwell Hall on Friday, April 4, 2025.
In November 2024 – just days after the national election – AWTT artist Robert Shetterly was interviewed by journalist Steve Adubato in Atlantic City at the New Jersey Education Association Convention. In this riveting discussion, Shetterly shares his perspectives on the present moment through the lens of some of his most inspiring portrait subjects, including […]