Brewer Community School Hosts AWTT Portraits
The Brewer Community School in Brewer, Maine will be hosting eight AWTT portraits during February and March 2026.
Tag: Robert Shetterly
Attacking Iran & Some Thoughts on Murdering Children
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 […]
AWTT portrait posters hosted at Saranac Lake Free Library
The Saranac Lake Free Library in Saranac Lake, New York, will display posters of AWWT portraits during the month of March 2026.
Tell Me It Ain’t So, Noam: Chomsky, Epstein, AWTT & Me
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
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
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.
Columbus Montessori Education Center Hosts AWTT Portraits
Columbus Montessori Education Center hosts eight AWTT portrait in February and March 2026.
Activism and the Creative Process
The New Garden Friends Meeting will host AWTT artist Shetterly for two events on the morning of Sunday, February 8, 2026.
Just to Watch him Die
When I was just a baby, my mama told me, “SonAlways be a good boy, don′t ever play with guns”But I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.When I hear that whistle blowin’, I hang my head and cry (oh yeah!) – Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison Blues One of the curious aspects […]
Sports, Trump and Unruling the Game
Ever since discovering playground kickball in the second grade, I have loved sports. In high school I ran track (a mediocre 400 meters), played football (a decent linebacker), basketball (a good corner jump shot), and baseball (always a little afraid of line drives). I loved the competition, the practice—loved improving my competence, loved team camaraderie. I enjoyed […]