LEWISTON – Maine artist Rob Shetterly will discuss how art, soul and truth-telling have intersected in his life and work at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 8, at Bates College.

Shetterly will speak in Skelton Lounge at Chase Hall, 56 Campus Ave. The public is invited free of charge to the presentation, part of the series “Spiritual Journeys: Stories of the Soul 2004-05,” sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain.

Shetterly’s series, “Americans Who Tell the Truth,” will be on display in the Bates College Chapel on College Street through Dec. 14.

The exhibition presents painted portraits of, and quotations by, influential individuals from Rachel Carson to Terry Tempest Williams. Truth-telling is a hallmark of the world’s great spiritual tradition says Shetterly, but is it also a hallmark of true art?

Shetterly’s paintings and prints are in collections all over the United States and Europe. A collection of his drawings and etchings, “Speaking Fire at Stones,” was published in 1993.

Well-known for his series of 70 painted etchings based on William Blake’s “Proverbs for Hell,” and for another series of 50 painted etchings reflecting on the metaphor of the Annunciation, his painting tends toward the narrative and the surreal. A 1969 graduate of Harvard College, he was an active participant in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam war movements.