One College, One Exhibition: Inaugural Event
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.
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Environmental Justice Truth Tellers
The South Parkersburg Library in Parkersburg, West Virginia, is hosting an exhibit of ten AWTT portraits from October 18 to November 17, 2025.
How Bad Is It, Doc?
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 […]
Nonviolence and the Transformative Power of the Arts
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 […]
Harvest of Ideas: AWTT Engages Educators
AWWT will share educational resources with Washington County, Maine educators at the online Harvest of Ideas conference, October 14, 2025.
Honoring Frances Perkins on Labor Day
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 […]
Equivalencies
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, […]
Brigham Green: Activating Main Street
Outdoor, large-scale image projections of AWTT portraits in Belfast, Maine on September 12, 2025.
Eighteen Ways to Consider John Brown
Author’s note: I wrote this piece when I was painting John Brown’s portrait back in 2012. It was my attempt to sort out the complex aspects of his character and clarify my attraction to legacy, my admiration for his fierce courage and commitment despite his darker reputation. Once the portrait was completed, I set these […]
On Being Woke
The justification for erasing America’s historic injustices, claiming that knowing them causes kids to feel guilt or shame, is a high priority for our current right wing government. Trump and his ilk make this sound like a noble cause—protecting kids from carrying the factual and emotional burdens of history. Think how much more uncomplicated and […]