FARMINGTON – University of Maine at Farmington is featuring works by artist Robert Shetterly of Brooksville in the “Waiting for the Truth/Paintings Since 2001” exhibit up through Nov. 18 at the UMF Art Gallery.

This show includes selected portraits from his traveling exhibit “Americans Who Tell the Truth,” a nonpartisan series of more than 68 works, as well as many of his large, enigmatic myth paintings.

Shetterly’s portraits seek to remind people of the dignity, courage and importance of some of America’s truth tellers and to help viewers determine which truths they value most as citizens in a democracy.

Besides his recent portraits, Shetterly is well known for his series of 70 painted etchings based on British poet William Blake’s “Proverbs of Hell” and for another series of 50 painted etchings reflecting on the metaphor of the Annunciation. “Speaking Fire at Stones,” a collection of his drawings and etchings, was published in 1993.

A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Shetterly moved to Maine in 1970 and became proficient in printmaking, painting and illustration. His work has been featured in the National Audubon Society’s newspaper for children, Audubon Adventures; in the Maine Times newspaper’s editorial page drawings; and in more than 30 books. He graduated in 1969 from Harvard College with a degree in English literature.

The UMF Art Gallery is free and open to the public from noon to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays. It is on Main Street.