About 200 middle-school and high-school students gathered at Orono (ME) High School May 20, 2025 to celebrate their participation in this year’s Samantha Smith Challenge. Approximately 500 students took part in this year’s program, although not all were able to make the trip to Orono. Schools represented include: Monarch Learning Academy (FL) Hazelwood Elementary School […]
Over twenty years ago, when AWTT artist Robert Shetterly began this portrait project to help himself cope with the United States’ bombing of Iraq, he didn’t anticipate the number of portraits that would follow, nor where they would take him. In the beginning, a few local schools and churches—curious about his project—invited him to talk […]
Students and faculty from the Monarch Learning Academy in Orlando, Florida will visit with AWTT artist Robert Shetterly in his home town Brooksville, Maine on April 26, 2025. At 2 p.m., they will hold a public discussion at the nearby Reversing Falls Sanctuary about their school-based projects which are aimed at reducing the use of […]
The Monarch Learning Academy is hosting an AWTT exhibit in Orlando, Florida August 1 through September 5, 2024.