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Student Change Makers: From Ordinary to Extraordinary
Brooklin School – a small elementary school in rural Maine – hosted eight AWTT portraits in March 2026. AWTT artist Shetterly visited the students early

Lucy Meyer Unveiling a Success!
On March 25, 2026, Robert Shetterly unveiled his portrait of Lucy Meyer, an international advocate and spokesperson for young people with disabilities. The unveiling was

Removal of Cesar Chavez’s Portrait
Just a few weeks ago we removed the portrait of Noam Chomsky from the AWTT gallery because of his association with the sexual predator Jeffrey

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,

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

Art in an Age of Democratic Upheaval
AWTT artist Robert Shetterly delivered this address to an in-house and online audience at the Center for Global Humanities, University of New England, on the

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

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

Claudette Colvin 1939-2026
“… as a teenager, I kept thinking, Why don’t the adults around here just say something? Say it so that they know we don’t accept