Outdoor Installation of Truth Tellers
The John Brown Lives! organization is hosting an outdoor exhibit of AWTT portrait reprints, from July 17 through October 31, 2025 at the John Brown Farm State Historic Site, Lake Placid New York.
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AWTT and Bagaduce Music present Artsapalooza!
Come join us at 5:30 p.m. on August 27, 2025, for an evening filled with creativity and music at Bagaduce Music in Blue Hill, Maine!
The Welcome Table: James Baldwin’s Dream
The organization John Brown Lives! will be hosting a dinner at 5 p.m. on August 2, 2025, with AWTT artist Robert Shetterly, in conversation with musician and AWTT portrait subject Reggie Harris and activist writer Eleanor Stern.
Robert Shetterly at the Surry Arts Barn
Surry Arts and Events at the Barn will host AWTT Robert Shetterly for a talk and discussion on Sunday, July 27, 2025 at 4 p.m.
Ask the Right Question
I intended to write about immigrants. About our government’s demonization of immigrants. About the reasons people flee their homes, abandon their extended families and communities, take enormous risks and suffer humiliating hardships to get to some safer and healthier place. I wanted to talk about some of the people in this portrait collection who are from immigrant families—like Dr. […]
Good Trouble Lives On
The organization John Brown Lives! is co-sponsoring an event at the John Brown Homestead on the afternoon of July 17, 2025. Reprints of twenty-five Americans Who Tell the Truth portraits will be featured. The opening of the AWTT art installation, including John Lewis‘s portrait, will take place from 3 -4 p.m., followed by a march […]
Rain at 4 am (then War)
Some people use a recording of rain’s soothing white noise to put themselves to sleep. I like to be woken up by the real thing. My house is surrounded by old red oaks and on a warm, quiet night—the windows wide—a sudden downpour startles me happily awake, the oak leaves twitching and twittering like a million […]
Standing in Black
Yesterday afternoon, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., 17 men and women dressed all in black, stood in a line on the street in the little village of Blue Hill, Maine. Each of us held an empty pot, open end toward the road, and a wooden spoon. We were bearing witness to the starvation in Gaza enforced by […]
Juneteenth Festival: Truth in Action
Free and open to the public Celebrate Juneteenth with a day of art, activism, and community at the Albany Institute of History & Art. Inspired by the powerful individuals and their causes featured in Americans Who Tell the Truth, this free festival will feature performances, gallery tours, hands-on art activities, and opportunities to engage directly with […]
Report from Albany: The Unveiling of Alice Green’s Portrait
Thanks to former Times Union reporter Paul Grondahl for covering the unveiling of Dr. Alice P. Green’s portrait on May 22, 2025. Grondahl also wrote the brief AWTT biography of Green that accompanies her portrait. The following article includes exerpt’s from Grondahl’s report, which appeared in the Albany Times Union on May 28. ALBANY — When […]