Bill Text: TX SR412 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Congratulating the 2021 Texas Commission on the Arts honorees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-05-18 - Reported enrolled [SR412 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SR412-Enrolled.html
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| WHEREAS, The Texas Commission on the Arts has announced the | ||
| 2021 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, Cyrus Cassells, the 2021 State Poet Laureate, is | ||
| the author of eight volumes of poetry, including The Gospel | ||
| According to Wild Indigo, which was a finalist for the NAACP | ||
| Image Award and the Balcones Prize, as well as More Than Watchmen | ||
| at Daybreak and the forthcoming The World That the Shooter Left | ||
| Us; his translation of Still Life with Children: Selected Poems | ||
| of Francesc Parcerisas won the Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award from | ||
| the Texas Institute of Letters, and his other honors include a | ||
| Lambda Literary Award, a Lannan Literary Award, two grants from | ||
| the National Endowment for the Arts, a Pushcart Prize, and a | ||
| William Carlos Williams Award; moreover, he was named a National | ||
| Poetry Series winner; he is a professor of English at Texas State | ||
| University; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The 2021 State Musician is Leon Bridges, whose | ||
| first album, Coming Home, debuted at number six on the Billboard | ||
| charts in 2015 and went on to be certified as a gold record; his | ||
| critically acclaimed second album, Good Thing, was released in | ||
| May 2018; he has written and performed songs with such artists as | ||
| Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, Nick Waterhouse, Kacey Musgraves, | ||
| Lecrae, and Gary Clark Jr., and he has performed at the White | ||
| House, the Library of Congress, and other venues around the | ||
| world; a four-time Grammy nominee, he won for Best Traditional | ||
| R&B Performance for his song "Bet Ain't Worth the Hand"; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The unique work of Annette Lawrence, the 2021 | ||
| State Two-Dimensional Artist, turns the ordinary data of | ||
| everyday life into drawings, objects, and installations, and her | ||
| pieces are included in the collections of the Museum of Fine | ||
| Arts, Houston, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Rachofsky | ||
| Collection, Artpace San Antonio, and the Blanton Museum of Art in | ||
| Austin, among others; her work appeared in the 1997 Biennial at | ||
| the Whitney Museum of American Art, and she is the recipient of a | ||
| MacDowell Fellowship, the Moss/Chumley Award from the Meadows | ||
| Museum, and the Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant from the | ||
| Dallas Museum of Art; she recently retired as a professor of | ||
| studio art at the University of North Texas, and in August 2021, | ||
| she will begin a visiting faculty position at Bennington College | ||
| in Vermont; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Jennifer Ling Datchuk, the 2021 State | ||
| Three-Dimensional Artist, was born in Ohio and raised in | ||
| Brooklyn; trained in ceramics, she utilizes materials often | ||
| associated with traditional women's work, such as porcelain, | ||
| hair, and textiles; she earned her bachelor of fine arts degree | ||
| at Kent State University and her master of fine arts degree from | ||
| the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and she has | ||
| participated in residencies in Germany, China, the Netherlands, | ||
| and San Antonio; she received the 2017 Emerging Voices Award from | ||
| the American Craft Council and was named a United States Artists | ||
| Fellow in Craft in 2020; she is an assistant professor of art at | ||
| Texas State University and maintains a studio in San Antonio; 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 Senate of the State of Texas, 87th | ||
| Legislature, hereby congratulate the 2021 Texas Commission on | ||
| the Arts honorees and extend to them sincere best wishes for | ||
| continued fulfillment in their creative endeavors. | ||
| Seliger | ||
| ________________________________ | ||
| President of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that the | ||
| above Resolution was adopted by | ||
| the Senate on May 18, 2021. | ||
| ________________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| ________________________________ | ||
| Member, Texas Senate | ||
