A friend asked me to write a little essay about being astonished. Astonished? . . . My first thought was a glass of cool water. Drinking it. The mysterious and momentary sublimity of that. Its sensuous, animal satisfaction, its poetic wonder. And then, water itself. A miracle. What is the direct line from the Big Bang to […]
The Land Peace Foundation, founded by Sherri Mitchell Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset, is organizing a week-long walk, beginning on the banks of the Penobscot River and ending at the Maine capitol building. (The following information about the walk comes from the Land Peace Foundation website.) “The journey begins on April 22nd at the Penobscot Nation Boat Landing […]
Artist Robert Shetterly will unveil his most recent portrait: Rivera Sun on Sunday, May 4, at the Bay School in Blue Hill, Maine.
AWTT artist Robert Shetterly will be visiting the ongoing portrait exhibit at Syracuse University’s Maxwell Hall on Friday, April 4, 2025.
In November 2024 – just days after the national election – AWTT artist Robert Shetterly was interviewed by journalist Steve Adubato in Atlantic City at the New Jersey Education Association Convention. In this riveting discussion, Shetterly shares his perspectives on the present moment through the lens of some of his most inspiring portrait subjects, including […]
The MY HERO Project has opened its invitation to enter the 2025 Robert Shetterly Portrait Contest. Submissions are due by May 1, 2025. Students of all ages are invited to submit portraits representing “someone you admire who has done something significant – for you, for your community, or for our planet.” Each work of art […]
As we remember Joan Gussow, who died last Friday, March 7, we dusted off the statement that Robert Shetterly wrote when he unveiled his portrait of Gussow ten years ago, in January 2015. “Joan Dye Gussow will be eighty-seven this year. I visited her last August at her lovely home on the Hudson River north of […]
Troy Howard Middle School announces that they will host nine AWTT portraits during the month of March 2025.
The Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE) has announced Caitlin Hutt and the Samantha Smith Challenge project as the 2024 recipient of the Conrad Toepfer Award for the Civic Engagement of Middle School Students. “Since 2018, Caitlin has used the Samantha Smith Challenge to provide her students with a collaborative educational experience that builds bridges […]
“It was a dreadful thing to see. Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.” — Huck Finn