Bill Text: TX HR1537 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Congratulating the 2013 Texas Commission on the Arts honorees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-04-29 - Reported enrolled [HR1537 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HR1537-Enrolled.html
H.R. No. 1537 |
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WHEREAS, The Texas Commission on the Arts has announced | ||
the 2013 appointments for the positions of State Poet Laureate, | ||
State Musician, State Two-Dimensional Artist, and State | ||
Three-Dimensional Artist; and | ||
WHEREAS, The state's highest accolade for excellence in the | ||
arts, designation as a Texas State Artist is conferred on those | ||
individuals who represent the best of our rich and diverse artistic | ||
community and who inspire others through their unique creative | ||
expression; and | ||
WHEREAS, San Antonio native Rosemary Catacalos is the 2013 | ||
Texas State Poet Laureate; in 1985, she received the Texas | ||
Institute of Letters poetry prize for her first full-length | ||
collection of poems, Again for the First Time, which is scheduled | ||
for reissue on its 30th anniversary; her work has been widely | ||
published in high school and college textbooks, and it has twice | ||
appeared in the annual Best American Poetry anthology; from 2003 to | ||
2012, she served as executive-artistic director of Gemini Ink, a | ||
community-focused literary center in San Antonio; and | ||
WHEREAS, The 2013 Texas State Musician is Austin-based Craig | ||
Hella Johnson, one of the most influential choral conductors of | ||
today; as founder and artistic director of Conspirare, he has | ||
formed an award-winning ensemble whose mission is to create | ||
transformative concert experiences; he is also artistic director of | ||
the critically acclaimed Victoria Bach Festival, which draws | ||
musicians from across the country, and in 2012, he became the first | ||
artist-in-residence at the Texas State University School of Music; | ||
and | ||
WHEREAS, Jim Woodson has been selected as the 2013 Texas | ||
State Two-Dimensional Artist; born in Waco, he has produced an | ||
impressive body of work over a career spanning more than five | ||
decades and is widely known for his high desert landscapes; his | ||
paintings have been featured in such prestigious exhibitions as the | ||
Florence Biennale and are held in many private and public | ||
collections, including those of the Amarillo Art Center, Belo | ||
Corporation, the El Paso Museum of Art, and the Modern Art Museum of | ||
Fort Worth; and | ||
WHEREAS, Named 2013 Texas State Three-Dimensional Artist, | ||
Joseph Havel joined the staff of the Glassell School of Art at the | ||
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in 1991 and became director of the | ||
institution five years later; one of his best-known sculptures, | ||
Curtain, was commissioned by the MFAH to frame the doorway to the | ||
Audrey Jones Beck Building; the Dallas Museum of Art and the | ||
Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, have also added his works to their | ||
collections, and his pieces have been exhibited extensively in | ||
Europe and in the United States; and | ||
WHEREAS, The artists who have been selected to hold these | ||
prestigious posts have all greatly contributed to the vibrant | ||
cultural life of the Lone Star State, and Texas is indeed fortunate | ||
to be home to these talented individuals; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 83rd Texas | ||
Legislature hereby congratulate the 2013 Texas Commission on the | ||
Arts honorees and extend to them sincere best wishes for continued | ||
fulfillment in their creative endeavors. | ||
Guillen | ||
______________________________ | ||
Speaker of the House | ||
I certify that H.R. No. 1537 was adopted by the House on April | ||
24, 2013, by a non-record vote. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||