Bill Text: TX SR455 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Recognizing the 2019 Texas Commission on the Arts honorees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-03-25 - Reported enrolled [SR455 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SR455-Enrolled.html
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WHEREAS, The Texas Commission on the Arts has announced the | ||
2019 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, The 2019 State Poet Laureate is Carrie Fountain, | ||
whose poems have been printed in Tin House, Poetry, and The New | ||
Yorker; she has published two poetry collections, Burn Lake, | ||
which won a National Poetry Series prize, and Instant Winner, as | ||
well as a novel, I'm Not Missing; she has also written a | ||
forthcoming children's book on poet W. S. Merwin; a native of New | ||
Mexico, she holds a master of fine arts degree from The | ||
University of Texas at Austin, and she currently serves as | ||
writer-in-residence at St. Edward's University and as host of | ||
the KUT radio show and podcast This Is Just to Say; and | ||
WHEREAS, Known as the "King of the Brown Sound," Little Joe | ||
Hernandez of popular Tex-Mex band Little Joe y La Familia has | ||
been named the 2019 State Musician; this pioneering Tejano artist | ||
began his career at just 13 years old, when he joined his cousin's | ||
band, David Coronado & The Latinaires, as a guitarist; | ||
Mr. Hernandez and his band have received five Grammy Awards, | ||
including Best Tejano Album, Best Mexican-American Album, and | ||
Best Tejano Music Performance, and he continues to tour after | ||
more than six decades in the industry; and | ||
WHEREAS, Mary McCleary, the 2019 State Two-Dimensional | ||
Artist, creates elaborate collages that incorporate themes drawn | ||
from science, history, religion, and literature; over the years, | ||
she has participated in exhibitions across the United States and | ||
in Mexico, Canada, and Russia, and her pieces have been collected | ||
by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Crystal Bridges Museum | ||
of American Art, and the San Antonio Museum of Art, among others; | ||
she was named the 2011 Texas Artist of the Year by Art League | ||
Houston, and she is a Regents Professor of Art Emeritus at | ||
Stephen F. Austin State University, where she taught for three | ||
decades; and | ||
WHEREAS, The 2019 State Three-Dimensional Artist is | ||
Houston resident Rick Lowe; his works have been exhibited at | ||
museums in the United States and abroad, and his "social | ||
sculptures" include the Anyang Public Art Program 2010 in Korea, | ||
the Victoria Square Project in Greece, and Project Row Houses in | ||
Houston, for which he was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow; he | ||
has also been honored with a Rudy Bruner Award in Urban | ||
Excellence and the American Institute of Architects Keystone | ||
Award; he currently serves as a professor of art at the | ||
University of Houston; 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, 86th | ||
Legislature, hereby congratulate the 2019 Texas Commission on | ||
the Arts honorees and extend to them sincere best wishes for | ||
continued fulfillment in their creative endeavors. | ||
Menéndez | ||
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President of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that the | ||
above Resolution was adopted by | ||
the Senate on March 25, 2019. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
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Member, Texas Senate |