Artist Robert Shetterly brings exhbit to JCTC campuses
Jefferson Community and Technical College is hosting a traveling exhibit of portraits by Maine artist Robert Shetterly, who began the works out of anger and grief over the U.S. response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The result was 100 portraits called "Americans Who Tell the Truth." At the invitation of JCTC's Office of Cultural Diversity, Shetterly will appear with 30 of his portraits Feb. 3-5. People who attend the free programs will have the opportunity to view the portraits, read the quotes and biography, and hear from the artist.
The exhibit's portraits include individuals ranging from activists and authors to presidents. Subjects include Sojourner Truth, abolitionist and woman's rights activist; Winona LaDuke, Native American activist; Shirley Chisholm, first black woman elected to Congress; Edward Said, Palestinian rights activist; James Bell, youth justice activist; James Baldwin, author of Go Tell it on the Mountain and If Beale Street Could Talk; Larry Gibson, mountaintop mining opponent; and Wendell Barry, Kentucky novelist and poet.
The exhibits are in the lobby of the Jefferson Educational Center Building at the downtown campus, 200 W. Broadway in Louisville; the lobby of the Shelby County Campus, 1361 Frankfort Road,Shelbyville; and in the Social Science and Administration buildings of the Southwest Campus, 1000 Community College Drive, Louisville.
Shetterly will speak at 2 p.m. Feb. 4 at the Shelby Campus and at 2:45 at the Southwest Campus in Quinlan Auditorium. He was scheduled to speak Feb. 3 at the downtown campus.
Posted by Bill Wolfe
