AWTT is looking forward to meeting with large gatherings of educators over the next two month. First, on November 7-8, 2024, AWTT artist Robert Shetterly, education director Connie Carter, and director of strategic engagement Kristie Gonzalez, will be attending the New Jersey Education Association Conference in Atlantic City. They will be presenting a workshop and two […]
Join us for AWTT teacher workshop at Bates Mills, Lewiston, ME, on November 20. 2024.
AWTT’s Director of Education Connie Carter and Troy Howard Middle School teacher Caitlin Hutt will present a joint session at the 2024 Maine Middle Level Institute Conference at the University of Maine on June 25. Their session, Bring Content Alive with Americans Who Tell the Truth, will share how AWTT makes content come alive. They will feature interdisciplinary resources […]
Read about AWTT’s work with students this spring – culminating in the Samantha Smith Challenge celebration on May 22., 2024.
The 2024 Samantha Smith Challenge (SSC) once again is inspiring students to engage with issues of truth, justice, and freedom and work for the common good.
NOTE: AWTT Director of Education contributed this piece to Rob’s blog. . It always happens at the symphony! True confessions — music moves me in so many ways. Maybe that is why I love it so much, but I think it actually moves many of us. Why does every movie, television show, radio broadcast, sporting […]
Artist Robert Shetterly and AWTT Director of Education Connie Carter were honored on Saturday, March 9, 2024 during Youth Art Month at the Portland Museum of Art. The Maine Art Education Association named Americans Who Tell the Truth as the 2024 Art Advocate of the Year. “Your creative and dedicated efforts using art education as […]
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 […]
What’s been happening in the AWTT portrait gallery this past year?
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 […]
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