Orange County Arts & Cultural Affairs and Monarch Learning Academy present the works of art and activism of Robert Shetterly in the Atrium Gallery at the Orange County Administration Center, 201 S. Rosalind Ave., Orlando
An opening reception for Art in the Atrium will take place on Friday, August 23, 2024 and feature an evening with Robert Shetterly, the creator of Americans Who Tell the Truth.
No tickets are needed; this event is FREE for all to enjoy.
All are invited to engage with Shetterly as he talks about his art and the inspiring stories of the Truth Tellers he paints.
Exhibited by Orange County Arts & Cultural Affairs and Monarch Learning Academy, the exhibit runs through September 5, 2024, in the Atrium Gallery at the Orange County Administration Center, 201 S. Rosalind Ave., Orlando. Monday to Friday 8 am to 5:30 pm, excluding Labor Day (September 2).
Twelve portraits will be on exhibit from August 1 to September 5, 2024 at the Orange County Administration Center. In conjunction with the exhibit, Monarch students will learn the stories of the portrait subjects, discuss their impact, engage in related learning activities.
The Art in the Atrium exhibition is free for all to enjoy.
Robert Shetterly was born in 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated in 1969 from Harvard College with a degree in English Literature. At Harvard he took some courses in drawing which changed the direction of his creative life — from the written word to the image. During this time, he was active in Civil Rights and in the Anti-Vietnam War movement. After college, he taught himself drawing, printmaking, and illustration.
Robert’s paintings and prints are in collections all over the U.S. and Europe. A collection of his drawings and etchings, Speaking Fire at Stones, was published in 1993. He is well known for his series of 70 painted etchings based on William Blake’s “Proverbs of Hell,” and for another series of 50 painted etchings reflecting on the metaphor of the Annunciation. His painting has tended toward the narrative and the surreal; however, for more than 20 years he has been painting the series of portraits Americans Who Tell the Truth.
These portraits have been traveling around the country since 2003, and have given Shetterly an opportunity to speak with children and adults all over this country about the necessity of dissent in a democracy, the obligations of citizenship, sustainability, US history, and how democracy cannot function if politicians don’t tell the truth, if the media don’t report it, and if the people don’t demand it.
Shetterly has engaged in a wide variety of activist and humanitarian work with many of the people whose portraits he has painted.
This event is sponsored by the McNeill family, the Christiansen family, the Cho family, the Rico family, the Merrigan family and Monarch Learning Academy.
More information about Robert Shetterly and the exhibit is available on the Americans Who Tell the Truth website.
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