I painted Jonathan Kozol, educator, writer and champion of inner-city schools, in 2004. At that time I had resolved to paint 50 people with whom I could surround myself, people whose struggles toinsist that we live up to our proclaimed ideals of justice and equality had made a difference, people who modeled the courageous citizenship […]
AWTT staff members are excited to attend, for the first time ever, the American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo in Philadelphia on May 20-23.
First Church in Cambridge is hosting six portraits, from April 12 through May 17, 2026, titling the show: Eastertide Formation Series: Americans Who Tell the Truth.
On Saturday, April 18, 2026 at 4 p.m. , Pihcintu, a multinational girls’ chorus will perform at the First United Methodist Church, Bangor, Maine.
The Land Peace Foundation is sponsoring a “town hall” event at Johnson Hall in Gardiner, Maine on April 23, 2026 at 6:30 p.m.
Students at Hampden Academy in Hampden, Maine recently engaged in a collaborative, station-based exploration of “Courageous Citizens” through student artwork and four Americans Who Tell the Truth portraits. Through structured discussion, close looking, and reflective writing, social studies and art students analyzed how AWTT portrait subjects used their voices to create change and then considered […]
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction. – James Baldwin Years ago, in the 1970s, when I was first living in Maine, industrial logging, clear cutting, and aerial insecticide spraying by paper companies were contentious issues. The nascent environmental movement raised the alarm about the health ramifications of these practices […]
On the evening of April 30, 2026, whistleblower Erez Reuveni will be honored with the 2025 Ridenhour Truth-Telling Prize, and AWTT artist Robert Shetterly will be unveiling his portrait of Reuveni.
The Plattsburgh Public Library in Plattsburgh, New York, will display posters of AWTT portraits during the month of April 2026.
The Brooklin School – a small elementary school in rural Maine – hosted eight AWTT portraits in March 2026. The “truth teller” portraits ranged from artists to civil rights leaders to scientists. AWTT artist Shetterly visited the students early in the month, introducing them to the portraits and engaging them in conversation about how committed […]