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SENATE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 90
BY SENATORS MORRELL AND APPEL AND REPRESENTATIVES ABRAMSON,
LEGER AND MORENO
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To commend distinguished and published author, teacher, and artist Brad Richard as the
recipient of the 2015 Louisiana Culture Award for Artist of the Year.
WHEREAS, Mr. Richard's contributions range from local to national, creating and
developing artist outlets and organizations to share the art of writing in many different
forms; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Richard is a department chair at Lusher Charter School where he
founded, developed, and taught creative writing to students in sixth through twelfth grade
for nine years; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Richard also teaches at Kenyon College Summer Workshop for
teachers, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, and Washington University in St. Louis; and
WHEREAS, at Lusher, Mr. Richard's dedication to his students is evident by the
numerous awards and scholarships his students have received; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Richard founded street, Lusher's high school literary journal, which
was awarded the highest award by the 2014 National Council of Teachers of English
Program to recognize excellence in student literary magazines; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Richard is a published author of three books: Butcher's Sugar
(Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012), Motion Studies (The Word Works, 2011), and Habitations
(Portal Press, New Orleans, 2000), which won the 2010 Washington Prize; and
WHEREAS, his works appear in numerous major literary journals such as American
Letters & Commentary, Barrow Street, Bayou, Gettysburg Review, Guernica, Hayden's
Ferry Review, The Hollins Critic, Hunger Mountain, Iowa Review, Literary Imagination,
Mississippi Review, North American Review, Passages North, Prairie Schooner, Western
Humanities Review, and Witness; and
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WHEREAS, in 2014, Mr. Richard co-curated The Waves Reading Series and
continues to do so today; in 2010, he founded and codirected the Southeast Louisiana
Writing Region's Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and continues to do so today; in 2007,
he founded and codirected the New Orleans New Writers Literary Festival, a literary festival
for high school students in the New Orleans region and continues to do so today; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Richard embodies all of the finest characteristics of an artist and
an educator; he is open, engaging, and has an enduring positive effect on his many students.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
commend distinguished and published author, teacher, and artist Brad Richard as the
recipient of the 2015 Louisiana Culture Award for Artist of the Year and recognizes his
inspiring dedication to the education of the youth of Louisiana.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to Mr.
Brad Richard.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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