Chaos Comes Calling: The Battle Against the Far-Right takeover of Small Town Americaby Sasha Abramsky, Bold Type Books 2024 I was talking recently with a leading educator from Washington County, the poorest county in Maine and home of some of its most conservative politics. He told me two disturbing things. One is that difficult emotional […]
Upcoming events at the month-long Bates Mill exhibit: free screenings of documentary film Truth Tellers at noon on Saturdays; live interview with Robert Shetterly on Dec. 4th.
On September 21, 2024, International Day of Peace, Robert Shetterly unveiled his most recent portrait: Doug Rawlings. The event took place in the Peace and Social Justice tent at the annual Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine. Rawlings is a Vietnam War Veteran and a co-founder of the national and […]
Swarthmore United Methodist Church (SUMC) invites the public to experience six of Shetterly’s portraits, on display in the Sanctuary at 129 Park Avenue, beginning with an Opening at 4:00p.m. on September 20.
Join the Blue Hill community October 9th at 7:00 pm in Emlen Hall at the Bay School to celebrate the launch of Portraits of Peacemakers.
The Center at Belvedere in Charlottesville, Virginia will be hosting Americans Who Tell the Truth during September 2024.
On the evening of August 8, 2024, Americans Who Tell the Truth (AWTT), Bethel Area Arts & Music (BAAM) and The Gem theater hosted the unveiling of artist Robert Shetterly’s portrait of Bethel, Maine resident, Inaugural Poet, and Poet Laureate Richard Blanco. Another highlight of the evening was Blanco reading selections of his poetry. Blanco […]
Robert Shetterly unveils portrait of Doug Rawlings at Common Ground Fair on September 21, 2024.
Yesterday, July 27, 2024, on a beautiful, hot summer day, I was arrested along with eight other peace activists while blocking the entrance to the parking lot at Bath Iron Works (BIW) in Bath, Maine. The shipyard at BIW builds an ever growing flotilla of enormous and enormously expensive warships which patrol all the world’s […]
The Monarch Learning Academy is hosting an AWTT exhibit in Orlando, Florida August 1 through September 5, 2024.