Chester Children’s Chorus Reprise

John Alston portrait unveling

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 […]

White Privilege, Black Portraits, Whose Story?

Martin Luther King Jr Awtt Portrait

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 […]

Queer Stories Tell the Truth

Nicole And Jonas Maines Awtt Portrait

The First Congregational Church (Camden, Maine) and Americans Who Tell the Truth will be hosting a multi-event celebration of queer story telling in Orono, Maine, January 14 – February 6.

AWTT to be Honored by Maine Art Education Association

Rob In Orono Small

We are pleased to announce that Americans Who Tell the Truth has been named the 2024 Maine Art Education Association’s Art Advocate of the Year.  MAEA announced the 2024 award in a letter this week from the Association’s president, Cory Bucknam, to artist Robert Shetterly and AWTT education director Connie Carter: “Your creative and dedicated […]

An Evening with Noel Paul Stookey

Noel-Paul-Stookey-in-concert

Noel Paul Stookey in concert, along with the unveiling of his Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait by artist Robert Shetterly. Thursday, December 14, 2023, 7 p.m., The Grand Auditorium, Elsworth, Maine.

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