Robert Shetterly’s – Americans Who Tell The Truth.

For the past 20 years, Robert Shetterly’s Americans Who Tell the Truth portrait series has tried to be a lantern that throws its light forward and
back–knowing the truth of the past’s struggles for justice is essential to seeing clearly the obstacles and possibilities in the future.
We welcome Robert back to ArtRage with this exhibition of 20 portraits not previously exhibited in our space. Shetterly selects his subjects as “real, complex human beings, whose acts for the common good can be emulated by all of us, any of us -they need to be emulated by all of us! The saving grace of a healthy democracy is not a handful of heroes but a culture of engaged citizenship inspired by the courage of truth tellers. Courage invigorates democracy. For twenty years it has been the mission of Americans Who Tell the Truth to teach responsibility for the injustices we create and provide role models for how to remedy them for a just society.”

Robin Wall Kimmerer – Biologist, Author : b. 1953
“If citizenship is a matter of shared beliefs, then I believe in the democracy of species.
If citizenship means an oath of loyalty to a leader, then I choose the leader of the trees.
If good citizens agree to uphold the laws of the nation, then I choose natural law,
the law of reciprocity, of regeneration, of mutual flourishing.”

SUSTAINING SPONSORS: Walter Putter & Marilyn Smith

Exhibition Sponsors:
Mark Briggs, Bob Gates & Deborah Welsh, Barbara & Barry Gordon, Barbara Inglis, Lorraine Morganti, Jeff Unaitis, Carmen Viviano-Crafts, Susie Weiss, and Amy Zamkoff & Sidney Manes

Season Sponsors:
Bruce & Kathy Coville, Annemarie Deegan, Edgewood Gallery, Chris Flynn, Julia Ganson, GEGENSATZ PRESS, Sam Gruber, Mary Kuhn, Jeremy McKay, Diane Murphy, Lleni Pach, George Savage, Ellen Schwartz, Laurie Gilmore Selleck, Vince Sgambati,
Sharye Skinner, Dana Sovocool & Brian Gruninger, Ann Tiffany & Ed Kinane, Ron VanNorstrand, Shaila Wood & Ramesh Gaonkar, and Amy Zamkoff

Special Benefactors:
Bousqet Holstein, PLLC, Onondaga County administered by CNY Arts, Dorothy and Marshall M. Reisman Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Anonymous, Donald Blair & Nancy Dock, Caroline Cargo, Donald Blair & Nancy Dock, Therese A. Deegan, Sandra Hurd & Joel Potash,
Ann Jamison, Sarah Stuart Macllvain, Anthony Malavenda & Martine Burat, Nancy & Bruce McCoy, Shirley & Larry Novak,
Rick Olanoff & Susan Wadley, Robert Sarason & Jane Burkhead, and Mary Stanley