Bill Text: TX SR680 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Recognizing the 2016 Texas Commission on the Arts honorees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-05-07 - Again read [SR680 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SR680-Enrolled.html
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| WHEREAS, The Texas Commission on the Arts has announced the | ||
| 2016 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, San Antonio native Laurie Ann Guerrero has been | ||
| named the 2016 State Poet Laureate; while an undergraduate at | ||
| Smith College, she received the prestigious Academy of American | ||
| Poets Prize, and her first full-length collection of poems, A | ||
| Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying, was selected for the 2012 Andrés | ||
| Montoya Poetry Prize and an International Latino Book Award and | ||
| was chosen as one of 14 must-read works of Chicano literature by | ||
| Rigoberto González; she has also been recognized with the | ||
| Panhandler Chapbook Award and with grants from the Artist | ||
| Foundation of San Antonio and the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral | ||
| Foundation, and she was appointed poet laureate of San Antonio by | ||
| Mayor Julian Castro in 2014; her latest book, A Crown for | ||
| Gumecindo, was released by Aztlan Libre Press in April 2015; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The 2016 State Musician is Joe Ely, an Americana | ||
| music pioneer whose songs are infused with a mixture of rock, | ||
| country, blues, and folk influences; over the course of his | ||
| four-decade career, he has performed thousands of shows | ||
| worldwide and has been honored with a Grammy Award, a Country | ||
| Music Association Award, and the Americana Music Association's | ||
| Lifetime Achievement Award for Performance; he has further | ||
| distinguished himself through his collaboration in the country | ||
| supergroup The Flatlanders, which includes fellow songwriters | ||
| Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Dornith Doherty has been selected as the 2016 | ||
| State Two-Dimensional Artist; born in Houston, she has produced | ||
| an impressive body of work that has been exhibited and collected | ||
| across the globe, and she is widely known for her examinations of | ||
| the relationship between the natural environment and human | ||
| agency; moreover, she was named a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial | ||
| Foundation Fellow in 2012 and has received grants from the | ||
| Fulbright Program, the Japan Foundation, the Society for | ||
| Contemporary Photography, the Indiana Arts Commission, and the | ||
| United States Department of the Interior; today, she serves as | ||
| the Distinguished Research Professor of Art at the University of | ||
| North Texas; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Named the 2016 State Three-Dimensional Artist, | ||
| Dario Robleto is an Artist Research Fellow at Rice University; he | ||
| uses esoteric materials and processes to create sculptures, | ||
| prints, and installations that investigate unexplored corners of | ||
| history, art, and science; since 1997, his work has been featured | ||
| in more than 30 solo exhibitions, the most recent of which were | ||
| held at the Menil Collection and Inman Gallery in Houston and at | ||
| the Baltimore Museum of Art, and he was awarded the 2011 | ||
| Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, the 2009 USA Rasmuson | ||
| Fellowship, and the 2007 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant; 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, 84th | ||
| Legislature, hereby congratulate the 2016 Texas Commission on | ||
| the Arts honorees and extend to them sincere best wishes for | ||
| continued fulfillment in their creative endeavors. | ||
| Menéndez | ||
| ________________________________ | ||
| President of the Senate | ||
| I hereby certify that the | ||
| above Resolution was adopted by | ||
| the Senate on May 4, 2015. | ||
| ________________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| ________________________________ | ||
| Member, Texas Senate | ||
