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2022 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 148
BY REPRESENTATIVE ORGERON
A RESOLUTION
To commend world champion carver Jett Brunet.
WHEREAS, Jett Brunet was born in 1964; he is the eldest of two sons born to world
champion carver Tan Brunet; he grew up watching his father carve, and by the age of seven,
he settled on professional carving as his future career; in addition to his father's influence,
he was inspired by his family's trips to the Easton Waterfowl Festival and the Ward
Foundation World Championships Wildfowl Carving Competition; and
WHEREAS, Jett entered his first carving competition at the age of nine, the same
year that he began carving on his own; his talent was evident from a young age, as he won
two titles as the Most Outstanding Teenage Carver in the World; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Brunet holds the record as the youngest person ever to win the
Ward World Pairs Championships for his victory at the 1985 event when he was just twenty-
one years old; he won the event again in 1987, and in that same year, was honored by having
his 1985 world championship pair of Ruddy Ducks exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum;
and
WHEREAS, Mr. Brunet also completed an unprecedented sweep of the podium
awards for open-level decorative floating duck carvings at the Ward World Championships
in 1989; he earned first, second, and third Best of Show awards with carvings of a gadwall,
pintail, and redhead; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Brunet was commissioned to create a featured carving for the 1991
Easton Waterfowl Festival and, under the advice of art collector Sandy Garfinkle, carved a
striking life-sized bald eagle that remains one of the most iconic works in his collection; and
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WHEREAS, throughout his illustrious carving career, Mr. Brunet has received many
awards and honors; he won back-to-back Ward World Interpretive Wood Sculpture
Championships in 2018 and 2019 and fourteen-consecutive Best of Show awards in the
Floating Waterfowl Competition at major wildfowl shows throughout the country; and
WHEREAS, in addition to his competitive carving, Mr. Brunet has been creating art
work for Ducks Unlimited since 1999, and he has created over 1.3 million reproductions of
his carvings to help conserve and benefit wetlands throughout the United States and Canada;
he and his works have also appeared in publications such as Time magazine, National
Geographic magazine, and the "National Geographic Explorer" television program; and
WHEREAS, today, Mr. Brunet focuses on carving interpretive works that adopt
traditional sculpting's emphasis on form and structure; he is a truly impressive artist whose
achievements bring great pride to the state of Louisiana and are worthy of the highest
recognition.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Louisiana does hereby commend world champion carver Jett Brunet; does
hereby recognize Mr. Brunet's waterfowl and birds of prey collections as sincere
interpretations of the natural beauty seen across Louisiana; and does hereby extend sincere
hopes that Mr. Brunet continue to create many beautiful works that inspire all Louisianians
to cherish the natural beauty of our home.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to Jett
Brunet.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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