Student Change Makers: From Ordinary to Extraordinary

Brooklin School Ordinary To Extraordinary.pdf

Brooklin School – a small elementary school in rural Maine – hosted eight AWTT portraits in March 2026. AWTT artist Shetterly visited the students early in the month, introducing them to the portraits and engaging them in conversation about how committed individuals – and artists – can effect positive change in the world. Near the […]

Lucy Meyer Unveiling a Success!

AWTT portrait Lucy Meyer

On March 25, 2026, Robert Shetterly unveiled his portrait of Lucy Meyer, an international advocate and spokesperson for young people with disabilities. The unveiling was a featured event of the Addison County Youth Citizen Summit, an all-day gathering in Middlebury, Vermont. Sponsored by the Addison Central School District and Middlebury College, the Summit brought together […]

Removal of Cesar Chavez’s Portrait

Gladys Vega Americans Who Tell The Truth

Just a few weeks ago we removed the portrait of Noam Chomsky from the AWTT gallery because of his association with the sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. As far as we know Chomsky himself was not involved in sexual abuse of girls, but he assisted Epstein in protecting his reputation from negative exposure. Even though Chomsky […]

Attacking Iran & Some Thoughts on Murdering Children

Tehran, Iran -group of local girls

All my pretty ones?Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?What, all my pretty chickens and their damAt one fell swoop?   – Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 3 One of the hardest truths to understand about Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is the deliberate targeting of children. Children and babies have been bombed, burned,  mutilated—killed […]

Tell Me It Ain’t So, Noam: Chomsky, Epstein, AWTT & Me

Noam Chomsky Awtt Portrait

When I was a college student in the late 1960s in Boston, I went to a teach-in at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge to hear Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky talk about the context of the Vietnam War—the history of the United States backing French colonialism in Vietnam, and, after the defeat of the French […]

Portrait Unveiling: Lucy Meyer

ArtRage Gallery Shetterly and Students 1

On March 25, 2026, Robert Shetterly will unveil his portrait of Lucy Meyer, an international advocate and spokesperson for young people with disabilities. The unveiling is a featured event of the Addison County Youth Citizen Summit, an all-day gathering in Middlebury, Vermont. Sponsored by the Addison Central School District and Middlebury College, the Summit will […]

MY HERO Student Art Contest

Portrait Contest For Students 2024 3

Americans Who Tell the Truth is pleased to be partnering again this year with the MY HERO Project to offer a student art contest. Deadline for submissions is March 1, 2026.

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