HLS 22RS-63 ORIGINAL
2022 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 148
BY REPRESENTATIVE ORGERON
COMMENDATIONS: Commends world champion carver Jett Brunet
1 A RESOLUTION
2To commend world champion carver Jett Brunet.
3 WHEREAS, Jett Brunet was born in 1964; he is the eldest of two sons born to world
4champion carver Tan Brunet; he grew up watching his father carve, and by the age of seven,
5he settled on professional carving as his future career; in addition to his father's influence,
6he was inspired by his family's trips to the Easton Waterfowl Festival and the Ward
7Foundation World Championships Wildfowl Carving Competition; and
8 WHEREAS, Jett entered his first carving competition at the age of nine, the same
9year that he began carving on his own; his talent was evident from a young age, as he won
10two titles as the Most Outstanding Teenage Carver in the World; and
11 WHEREAS, Mr. Brunet holds the record as the youngest person ever to win the
12Ward World Pairs Championships for his victory at the 1985 event when he was just twenty-
13one years old; he won the event again in 1987, and in that same year, was honored by having
14his 1985 world championship pair of Ruddy Ducks exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum;
15and
16 WHEREAS, Mr. Brunet also completed an unprecedented sweep of the podium
17awards for open-level decorative floating duck carvings at the Ward World Championships
18in 1989; he earned first, second, and third Best of Show awards with carvings of a gadwall,
19pintail, and redhead; and
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1 WHEREAS, Mr. Brunet was commissioned to create a featured carving for the 1991
2Easton Waterfowl Festival and, under the advice of art collector Sandy Garfinkle, carved a
3striking life-sized bald eagle that remains one of the most iconic works in his collection; and
4 WHEREAS, throughout his illustrious carving career, Mr. Brunet has received many
5awards and honors; he won back-to-back Ward World Interpretive Wood Sculpture
6Championships in 2018 and 2019 and fourteen-consecutive Best of Show awards in the
7Floating Waterfowl Competition at major wildfowl shows throughout the country; and
8 WHEREAS, in addition to his competitive carving, Mr. Brunet has been creating art
9work for Ducks Unlimited since 1999, and he has created over 1.3 million reproductions of
10his carvings to help conserve and benefit wetlands throughout the United States and Canada;
11he and his works have also appeared in publications such as Time magazine, National
12Geographic magazine, and the "National Geographic Explorer" television program; and
13 WHEREAS, today, Mr. Brunet focuses on carving interpretive works that adopt
14traditional sculpting's emphasis on form and structure; he is a truly impressive artist whose
15achievements bring great pride to the state of Louisiana and are worthy of the highest
16recognition.
17 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
18Legislature of Louisiana does hereby commend world champion carver Jett Brunet; does
19hereby recognize Mr. Brunet's waterfowl and birds of prey collections as sincere
20interpretations of the natural beauty seen across Louisiana; and does hereby extend sincere
21hopes that Mr. Brunet continue to create many beautiful works that inspire all Louisianians
22to cherish the natural beauty of our home.
23 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to Jett
24Brunet.
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HR 148 Original 2022 Regular Session Orgeron
Commends world champion carver Jett Brunet.
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