Robert Shetterly
Robert Shetterly is a writer and artist who lives in Brooksville, Maine and the author of the book, "Americans Who Tell the Truth." Please visit the Americans Who Tell the Truth project's website, where posters of Howard Zinn, Rachel Carson, Edward Snowden, and scores of others are now available. Send Rob an email here.
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Views Monday, June 09, 2014 Why I Painted Bob Moses, A Civil Rights Hero You May Not Know Editor's note: The artist's essay that follows accompanies the 'online unveiling'—exclusive to Common Dreams—of Shetterly's latest painting in his " Americans Who Tell the Truth " portrait series, presenting citizens throughout U.S. history who have courageously engaged in the social, environmental... Read more |
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Views Friday, May 30, 2014 Big Tent Activism: On Why I Painted Kevin Zeese Editor's note: The artist's essay that follows accompanies the 'online unveiling'—exclusive to Common Dreams—of Shetterly's latest painting in his " Americans Who Tell the Truth " portrait series, presenting those who have courageously engaged in the social, environmental, or economic issues of... Read more |
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Views Saturday, May 10, 2014 Wailing at the Separation Wall You have what you desire: the new Rome, the Sparta of Technology and the ideology of madness. —Mahmoud Darwish I returned a few days ago from Palestine, where I was part of Lily Yeh’s Barefoot Artist team recruited to paint a mural in each of three places—the Balata Refugee Camp, in the Old City of... Read more |
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Views Thursday, April 24, 2014 The Sports Page and the Common Good: On Painting Journalist Dave Zirin Editor's note: The artist's essay that follows accompanies the 'online unveiling'—exclusive to Common Dreams—of Shetterly's latest painting in his " Americans Who Tell the Truth " portrait series, presenting citizens throughout U.S. history who have courageously engaged in the social, environmental... Read more |
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Views Sunday, April 13, 2014 The Backward Dancing Man In the early 1970s when I was teaching myself how to draw and hoping, in the process, to develop an artful voice, I was also reading the great anthropologist, philosopher, poet, paleontologist, and writer Loren Eiseley. Eiseley's autobiography, All the Strange Hours, had just been published and in... Read more |
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Views Sunday, January 19, 2014 Why We Should Care about Clyde Kennard, And Why I Painted Him Editor's note: The artist's essay that follows accompanies the 'online unveiling'—exclusive to Common Dreams—of Shetterly's latest painting in his " Americans Who Tell the Truth " portrait series, presenting citizens throughout U.S. history who have courageously engaged in the social, environmental, or economic issues of their time. Read more |
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Views Friday, December 20, 2013 Organizing With Love: On Painting Labor Leader Ai-jen Poo Editor's note: The artist's essay that follows accompanies the 'online unveiling'—exclusive to Common Dreams—of Shetterly's latest painting in his " Americans Who Tell the Truth " portrait series, presenting citizens throughout U.S. Read more |
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Views Friday, November 29, 2013 Meditations On Law and Denial While Painting Sibel Edmonds Editor's note: The artist's essay that follows accompanies the 'online unveiling'—exclusive to Common Dreams—of Shetterly's latest painting in his " Americans Who Tell the Truth " portrait series which present citizens throughout U.S. history who have courageously engaged in the social, environmental, or economic issues of their time. Read more |
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Views Thursday, July 18, 2013 Meditations While Painting Edward Snowden "The national security state and the rule of law are mortal enemies... the national security state’s apparatus needs arbitrary power. Such power has its own code, which is meant to govern or justify the behavior of the initiated—after the fact. It operates to protect the state apparatus from the citizenry." —Marcus Raskin "...and I only am escaped alone to tell thee." —Book of Job, 1:15. Read more |
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Views Thursday, June 13, 2013 Edward Snowden: The Asymmetry of Courage One of the ironies of warfare is that an apparently vastly superior force can be defeated by an apparently much weaker one when the weaker force refuses to meet the more powerful on its own terms, play by its rules, square off army to army, submit to punch and counterpunch. A combination of strategy and tactics designed by the weaker force to enervate the morale, confidence and finances of the powerful may prove decisive --- as it did for the American revolutionaries against the British, North Vietnamese & Viet Cong against the U.S., or the Afghanis against the Soviets. Read more |