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 | ||
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President of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that the | ||
above Resolution was adopted by | ||
the Senate on May 18, 2021. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
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Member, Texas Senate |