AWTT Mission
Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell the Truth portraits and narratives highlight citizens who courageously address issues of social, environmental, and economic fairness. By combining art and other media, AWTT offers resources to inspire a new generation of engaged Americans who will act for the common good, our communities, and the Earth.
AWTT Blog
- The Million Women’s March January 21, 2017
- A Public Conversation in Asheville, NC with Robert Shetterly and Rev. Dr. William Barber II
- Rob's Report From Bozeman
- Commercializing The Christmas Truce: Spinning Hay into Dollars
- Torture: A modest (satirical) proposal
- A Symphony of Courageous Action
- The Myth of Accountability and the Death of Michael Brown
- Nature's Common Core: Why Rachel Carson should be taught in schools
- Contemplating Logic
- A Sigh Heard Round the World
The Samantha Smith Challenge & engagEd
The 2017/18 Samantha Smith Challenge Celebration, an intiative of AWTT and MAMLE, will be this June 4, 2018 at Thomas College in Waterville, Maine. This year's theme is "Social Justice Through the Arts". Learn more here.
Introducing a new, in-development project, engagEd. Lessons plans from the AWTT Truth Tellers that will help teach your students to engage the world and its challenges.
Events
Mahaney Gymnasium, Thomas College
Bagaduce Lending Library, 49 South Street, Blue Hill, Maine
South Royalton, Vermont
Danville, Kentucky
106 High St, Belfast, ME 04915
The Bay School, Blue Hill, Maine
505 Hawley Avenue Syracuse, New York 13203
Arlington Street Church, 351 Boylston St., Boston, MA
Waynflete Arts Center, 360 Spring St., Portland, Maine
Mt. Mercy University, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
News
It’s been a very exciting fall for Americans Who Tell the Truth and the Samantha Smith Challenge.On September 9th we held our first fundraiser at Sally and Charlie Stone’s beautiful home in Brooksville, Maine. (You can stil
The 2016 Samantha Smith Challenge offered and exciting demonstration of student activism around the state of Maine with 9 schools and 700 kids working on service projects in their communities.
Americans Who Tell the Truth and the My Hero Project are putting out the call for entries for the 2nd Annual "Shetterly Prize" for socially engaged art.
A video made by Amelya Black from the opening of the Americans Who Tell the Truth show in Greensboro, North Carolina. Robert Shetterly narrates.
This year, 2015, the MyHero Project and Americans Who Tell the Truth created "The Shetterly Prize". Entries were solicited from people of all ages and from anywhere.
Americans Who Tell the Truth receives grants from the Maine Community Foundation and the Holt Family Fund to support the Samantha Smith Challenge.
Two professors of education at the University of North Carolina Greensboro have created a curriculum for teachers to use in working with AWTT in North Carolina and beyond.
Steve Kaagan returns his honorary degree to Williams College in support of serious climate action and to protest the college's investments in fossil fuels.
The My Hero Project and Americans Who Tell the Truth create "The Shetterly Prize" for art that portrays heroes or heroism.
Americans Who Tell the Truth hosts the first annual Samantha Smith Challenge at the Hall of Flags at the Maine State Capitol in Augusta, Maine on June 1, 2015.
Most Visited Portraits
Testimonials
" I teach at one of the schools which Samantha Smith attended.Because of this, when I heard about this Samantha Smith Challenge (click to sign up your students) I was excited to learn more."
"I know my time with my students will have been worthwhile if, at the end of our class, each child has grown as a citizen. I want my students to learn to be aware, empathetic, and active.The Samantha Smith Challenge fits right into this approach."
"Robert’s Americans Who Tell the Truth has become a distinctive and profound way of teaching American History and American Thought...His work will help us advance towards common understanding and tolerance."
"I want the young adults I’m teaching to gain a true understanding of not only what happens during times of injustice, but most importantly, why these events are allowed to unfold. "
"We had a "dinner party" with students sharing their biographies with each other as if they were the person they studied. It was fantastic to "see" Zinn sitting next to Chomsky sitting next to Mother Jones sitting next to Woody Guthrie!"
"Robert Shetterly's portraits cut to the chase in a compelling way. Students could access the profound sentiments that these portraits represent."
"Finally, I was shown people of all backgrounds who had made a difference; finally, I found people who were so normal, who I could relate to, and yet were so profound. Suddenly, there was no more excuse."