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 […]
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 […]
The anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom gives us an opportunity to honor those who have fought so hard for racial justice.
How we remember our history matters. As the nation observes Juneteenth – this date in 1865 when Union troops arrived in Texas, informing slaves that the Confederacy had lost the war and that they were free under the Emancipation Proclamation – the Equal Justice Initiative reminds us to remember this historical event in context – […]
At 4 pm on Sunday, January 15 (EST), AWTT artist Robert Shetterly will host a virtual Martin Luther King, Jr., Day event. Shetterly will share inspiring stories of a few of his portrait subjects, followed by a discussion of the holiday and how we honor King’s memory through community building and social action. The featured paintings […]
Robert Shetterly was invited to Bozeman, Montana for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2015. He spent four days there, visiting schools, working with students at Montana State University, and giving a public talk for the citizens of Bozeman. After the visit, Ariel Donohue, one of the event organizers, said this about Rob’s visit: “Rob has […]
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