Bill Text: TX HCR165 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Honoring the 2011 and 2012 Texas State Artist appointees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Signed by the Governor [HCR165 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HCR165-Enrolled.html
| H.C.R. No. 165 | ||
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| WHEREAS, The Texas Commission on the Arts has announced the | ||
| 2011 and 2012 appointments for the positions of State Poet | ||
| Laureate, State Musician, State Two-Dimensional Artist, and State | ||
| Three-Dimensional Artist; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Honorees are chosen for the exceptional quality of | ||
| their work and for their outstanding commitment to the arts in | ||
| Texas; nominees must either be native Texans or have resided in the | ||
| state for at least five years; in addition, they must have received | ||
| critical recognition from state, regional, and national | ||
| publications, and they must have attained the highest levels of | ||
| excellence in their respective disciplines; and | ||
| WHEREAS, David M. Parsons is the 2011 Texas State Poet | ||
| Laureate; inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters in 2009, Mr. | ||
| Parsons is the recipient of numerous awards, among them a National | ||
| Endowment for the Humanities Dante Fellowship to the State | ||
| University of New York and the French/American Legation Poetry | ||
| Prize; he has published two collections of poems, and his work has | ||
| appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including Gulf Coast, | ||
| The Texas Review, and Louisiana Literature; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The 2011 Texas State Musician is singer-songwriter | ||
| Lyle Lovett, who has blurred genre boundaries over the course of 14 | ||
| albums that deftly combine elements of country, swing, jazz, folk, | ||
| gospel, and blues; a four-time Grammy Award winner, Mr. Lovett has | ||
| logged significant time at the top of the Billboard charts; he has | ||
| branched successfully into acting as well, appearing in 13 feature | ||
| films, including several noteworthy Robert Altman pictures, and he | ||
| is active in many philanthropic causes; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Melissa W. Miller has been selected as the 2011 | ||
| Texas State Two-Dimensional Artist; acclaimed for her bold, | ||
| imaginative, allegorical paintings of animals, she has pursued an | ||
| iconoclastic path since the mid-1970s; her works have been | ||
| exhibited at many major museums across the nation, including the | ||
| Corcoran Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Brooklyn Museum of | ||
| Fine Arts, and they have been featured in the Whitney and Venice | ||
| Biennials; an associate professor of art at The University of Texas | ||
| at Austin, Ms. Miller has also been a visiting lecturer and guest | ||
| artist at more than 40 universities, colleges, and art institutes; | ||
| and | ||
| WHEREAS, Corpus Christi native and Rockport resident Jesus | ||
| Moroles is the 2011 Texas State Three-Dimensional Artist; more than | ||
| 2,000 of his works have found a place in museums and corporate, | ||
| public, and private collections; his "Lapstrake," a massive | ||
| 22-foot, 64-ton abstract sculpture, is located across from the | ||
| Museum of Modern Art in New York, and his work was featured in the | ||
| landmark traveling exhibition Contemporary Hispanic Art in the | ||
| United States; Mr. Moroles has also served on the board of the | ||
| Smithsonian American Art Museum and received the 2008 National | ||
| Medal of Arts; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The 2012 Texas Poet Laureate is Jan Seale, the | ||
| author of six poetry volumes and several books of short fiction and | ||
| essays; her writing has appeared in Texas Monthly, The Yale Review, | ||
| and other periodicals, as well as numerous anthologies, and her | ||
| work has been featured on National Public Radio; a popular | ||
| presenter, she has given readings and workshops around the country, | ||
| and she is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts | ||
| fellowship; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Billy F Gibbons of ZZ Top fame has been selected as | ||
| the 2012 Texas State Musician; a much-imitated guitarist, he is | ||
| also the lead singer of the iconic band, which was inducted into the | ||
| Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, and he wrote many of its | ||
| blockbuster hits; he has collaborated with a wide range of artists, | ||
| among them B. B. King, Queens of the Stone Age, Roky Erickson, and | ||
| Les Paul; in addition, he is a car customizer and actor and plays a | ||
| recurring role on the television series Bones as a fictionalized | ||
| version of himself; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The 2012 Texas State Two-Dimensional Artist is Karl | ||
| Umlauf, who grew up in Austin; after completing his master of fine | ||
| arts degree at Cornell University in 1963, he began teaching at the | ||
| University of Pennsylvania, and his paintings were exhibited in a | ||
| number of prominent East Coast galleries and museums; his long | ||
| career in higher education eventually brought him to East Texas | ||
| State University and then Baylor University; he has won many prizes | ||
| and purchase awards for reliefs in a variety of materials, | ||
| including fiberglass and cast paper; fascinated with geological | ||
| substrata and archeological burial sites as well as salvage yards | ||
| and abandoned industrial sites, he has concentrated on imaginative | ||
| facades since 2000; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Bill FitzGibbons has been selected as the 2012 Texas | ||
| State Three-Dimensional Artist; a former Fulbright Scholar, he is | ||
| known for large-scale light sculptures that transform building | ||
| walls into elaborately programmed spectrums of constantly moving | ||
| light; he has received more than 30 public art commissions in five | ||
| countries; since 2002, he has served as the executive director of | ||
| the Blue Star Contemporary Art Center in San Antonio, and he is a | ||
| member of the board of the International Sculpture Center; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The men and women who have been selected to hold | ||
| these prestigious posts for the next two years 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 artists; now, | ||
| therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the 82nd Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
| hereby honor the 2011 and 2012 appointees to the positions of State | ||
| Poet Laureate, State Musician, State Two-Dimensional Artist, and | ||
| State Three-Dimensional Artist and extend to each of them sincere | ||
| best wishes for continued creativity and achievement. | ||
| Guillen | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.C.R. No. 165 was adopted by the House on May | ||
| 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.C.R. No. 165 was adopted by the Senate on May | ||
| 27, 2011, by a viva-voce vote. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: __________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| __________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
