'Americans Who Tell the Truth' portrait artist
Robert Shetterly to speak at college library Sept. 27
MIDDLEBURY, Vt.—Portrait artist Robert Shetterly will speak about his recent work, "Americans Who Tell the Truth," on Wednesday, September 27 at 4:30 p.m. in the Harmon Reading area of the Middlebury College library. The event is free and open to the public.
"Americans Who Tell the Truth" is a collection of more than 50 paintings that represent historic and contemporary writers, thinkers and activists who, as Shetterly says, "form the well from which we must draw our future." An exhibition of 10 portraits, including those of Emma Goldman, Frederick Douglass, Wendell Berry, James Baldwin and Zora Neale Hurston, will be on display in the library atrium through October. The 36" x 30" acrylic paintings incorporate text into the canvas, and are accompanied by biographies detailing each person's achievements.
Sponsors of this event include Middlebury College's Center for Teaching, Learning and Research, the Office for Institutional Diversity, Wonnacott Commons, the Women's and Gender Studies department (WAGS), the Pan-African Latino Asian Native American Center (PALANA), the History department, the Teacher Education program, the Academic Enrichment Fund, and the office of Library & Information Services. Other sponsors include Middlebury Union High School and In the Alley Bookshop, in the town of Middlebury.
More information about the project is available online at www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/.