Juneteenth Festival: Truth in Action

Free and open to the public Celebrate Juneteenth with a day of art, activism, and community at the Albany Institute of History & Art. Inspired by the powerful individuals and their causes featured in Americans Who Tell the Truth, this free festival will feature performances, gallery tours, hands-on art activities, and opportunities to engage directly with […]
Report from Albany: The Unveiling of Alice Green’s Portrait

Thanks to former Times Union reporter Paul Grondahl for covering the unveiling of Dr. Alice P. Green’s portrait on May 22, 2025. Grondahl also wrote the brief AWTT biography of Green that accompanies her portrait. The following article includes exerpt’s from Grondahl’s report, which appeared in the Albany Times Union on May 28. ALBANY — When […]
Shetterly shares his wisdom and expertise with Oregon Episcopal School

Artist Robert Shetterly’s visit to the Oregon Episcopal School in Portland earlier this month was a resounding success. The school hung an exhibit of twenty portraits in their chapel during the month of May 2025 and invited Shetterly to visit for a day. The theme of the exhibit was ecojustice. Shetterly visited classes in all […]
To Recognize the Fact

I call it cruel and maybe the root of all crueltyto know what occurs but not recognize the fact. – William Stafford, from A Ritual to Read to Each Other I don’t want to be writing this. Probably there are better things for me to be doing. Especially because the massacre in Gaza has been […]
SSC 2024-25: It’s a Wrap

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 […]
On the Home Front

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 […]
Unveiling of AWTT’s Dr. Alice P. Green Portrait in Albany

The Alice Moore Black Arts and Cultural Center of Albany, New York will host the unveiling of AWTT artist Robert Shetterly’s most recent portrait – of Dr. Alice P. Green – on Thursday, May 22, 2025 at 6 p.m.
AWTT portraits visit Waterville Junior High School

Eight AWTT portraits will be on display from May 5 to May 30, 2025 at Waterville Junior High School in Waterville, Maine.
Old Town School Hosts AWTT Exhibit

AWWT is delighted to be showing eight portraits at the Old Town Elementary School in Old Town, Maine this spring. The exhibit – opening on April 28, 2015 and ending on May 23 – is sponsored by Bangor Savings Bank. The school would also like to thank Old Town High School teacher Justin Lewin and […]
Monarch Students to visit Shetterly’s Studio

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 […]