Reversing Falls Sanctuary (RFS) in Brooksville, Maine, hosts twenty AWTT portraits during the month of June 2026. The Sanctuary’s gallery is within a mile of Rob Shetterly‘s home in North Brooksville. Title “Close to Home: Robert Shetterly’s Portraits of Maine Heroes Who Tell the Truth,” the show will feature portrait subjects with a Maine connection, […]
Fourth graders at Phineas Bates Elementary School in Roslindale, Massachusetts, are learning about the brave suffragists and changemakers who worked to make voting rights for women a reality. Phineas Bates Elementary is an art-loving school community that is committed to social justice initiatives and believes in the power of art to affect change. Americans Who […]
AWTT artist Robert Shetterly unveils portrait of whistleblower Erez Rauveni.
The Town of Kent, CT joins with many other towns and cities around the country during the summer of 2026 to celebrate our nation’s 250th anniversary. Included in Kent’s celebration will be several AWTT-related events. From June 17 to July 15, freestanding replicas of 10 AWTT portraits will beautify the Golden Falcon Field, with accompanying […]
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 […]