Bill Text: TX HR709 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Resolution 709 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Congratulating Rick Lowe of Houston on his selection as the 2015 Texas Medal of Arts honoree for Visual Arts by the Texas Cultural Trust.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Passed) 2015-03-20 - Reported enrolled [HR709 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HR709-Enrolled.html



	H.R. No. 709



	R E S O L U T I O N
	WHEREAS, Rick Lowe of Houston has been named the 2015 Texas
	Medal of Arts honoree for Visual Arts by the Texas Cultural Trust;
	and
	WHEREAS, The Texas Medal of Arts program pays tribute to
	residents of the Lone Star State who have made significant
	contributions to a variety of artistic disciplines in the state,
	either through personal achievement or through generous support;
	and
	WHEREAS, A native of Alabama, Mr. Lowe attended Columbus
	College in Georgia and subsequently studied visual arts at Texas
	Southern University; in 1993, he cofounded the nonprofit Project
	Row Houses, which brought together local artists and volunteers to
	restore 22 dilapidated shotgun-style houses in Houston's historic
	Third Ward and to transform that two-block site into an arts venue
	and community support center; over the years, the scope of the
	initiative has been dramatically expanded to provide youth arts
	education programs, exhibition spaces and studio residences for
	artists, housing for young mothers, and even an organic gardening
	program; and
	WHEREAS, In addition to his achievements in his own
	community, Mr. Lowe has helped establish arts-driven redevelopment
	efforts in a number of other cities, including the Watts House
	Project in Los Angeles, the post-Hurricane Katrina rebuilding
	project Transforma in New Orleans, and a community market in
	Dallas; he has also assisted with such community building efforts
	as the Arts Plan for the Seattle Public Library, the Borough Project
	for the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina, and the
	Delray Beach Cultural Loop in Florida; and
	WHEREAS, The work of this world-renowned artist has been
	exhibited in the Contemporary Arts Museum and the Museum of Fine
	Arts in Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the
	Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, and the Venice Architecture
	Biennale; appointed to the National Council on the Arts by
	President Barack Obama in 2013, he also serves today as
	artist-in-residence at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas and as
	a Mel King Community Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of
	Technology; in recognition of his visionary efforts, he was
	selected as a 2014 MacArthur Fellow; and
	WHEREAS, Rick Lowe has touched countless individuals through
	his art and has used his extraordinary gifts to enhance the quality
	of life in his community and in cities across the nation, and he is
	most deserving of this prestigious accolade; now, therefore, be it
	RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 84th Texas
	Legislature hereby congratulate Rick Lowe on his selection as the
	2015 Texas Medal of Arts honoree for Visual Arts by the Texas
	Cultural Trust and extend to him sincere best wishes for continued
	success; and, be it further
	RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
	prepared for Mr. Lowe as an expression of high regard by the Texas
	House of Representatives.

	Coleman


	______________________________
	Speaker of the House

	I certify that H.R. No. 709 was adopted by the House on March
	12, 2015, by a non-record vote.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House