Texas 2019 - 86th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SR456 Compare Versions

Only one version of the bill is available at this time.

Old	New	Differences
1	1	SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 456
2	2	WHEREAS, The Texas Commission on the Arts has announced the
3	3	2020 appointments for State Poet Laureate, State Musician, State
4	4	Two-Dimensional Artist, and State Three-Dimensional Artist; and
5	5	WHEREAS, The state's highest accolade for excellence in the
6	6	arts, designation as a Texas State Artist is conferred on those
7	7	individuals who represent the best of our rich and diverse
8	8	artistic community and who inspire others through their unique
9	9	creative expression; and
10	10	WHEREAS, Emmy Pérez, author of the poetry collections With
11	11	the River on Our Face and Solstice, is the 2020 State Poet
12	12	Laureate; after growing up in Santa Ana, California, she has
13	13	spent the past 18 years of her life in Texas border communities;
14	14	she currently resides in McAllen and works as a professor of
15	15	creative writing at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley,
16	16	where she also serves as associate director for the Center for
17	17	Mexican American Studies; a member of the Macondo Writers
18	18	Workshop for socially engaged writers, she additionally serves
19	19	on the organizing committee for the CantoMundo national workshop
20	20	for Latin American poets; her work has earned her several poetry
21	21	fellowships, and it has been featured on the Poetry Foundation
22	22	website, in Poem-a-Day by the Academy of American Poets, and in a
23	23	host of poetry anthologies; and
24	24	WHEREAS, Singer and pianist Emily Gimble has been selected
25	25	as the 2020 State Musician; a third-generation musician, she
26	26	began performing on stage when she was only seven years old, and
27	27	she went on to record an album, A Case of the Gimbles, with her
28	28	father and grandfather in 2005; after exploring western swing
29	29	with the Marshall Ford Swing Band, she branched out into jazz,
30	30	country, folk, and pop with Warren Hood and the Goods; in 2014,
31	31	she signed on with the Grammy Award-winning band Asleep at the
32	32	Wheel, performing with the group on Austin City Limits and
33	33	recording a duet with one of her idols, Merle Haggard; her debut
34	34	solo album, Certain Kinda, was released in 2017, and she
35	35	continues to tour on her own, with her family band, and with other
36	36	artists; she has received acclaim from the Austin Music Awards as
37	37	the "Best Keyboards" in the city in 2013, 2014, 2018, and 2019; and
38	38	WHEREAS, The 2020 State Two-Dimensional Artist is Earlie
39	39	Hudnall Jr., a photographer whose work has focused on documenting
40	40	the daily lives of African Americans in Houston's Third, Fourth,
41	41	and Fifth Wards; born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Mr. Hudnall
42	42	moved to Houston to study at Texas Southern University after
43	43	serving in the United States Marines during the Vietnam War; he
44	44	was subsequently hired to photograph communities that were
45	45	impacted by the federal Model Cities program, a component of
46	46	President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty, and the experience
47	47	greatly influenced his development as an artist; his photographs
48	48	have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the country,
49	49	as well as in such major collections as the Smithsonian American
50	50	Art Museum and the National Museum of African American History
51	51	and Culture; and
52	52	WHEREAS, Named the 2020 State Three-Dimensional Artist,
53	53	Gabriel Dawe is a native of Mexico City who, through his work with
54	54	textiles, attempts to examine the complex construction of gender
55	55	and identity in Mexico and to subvert modern-day notions of
56	56	masculinity and machismo; he creates immersive, site-specific
57	57	installations, and his works have been displayed at numerous
58	58	exhibitions and collections at the Contemporary Arts Museum
59	59	Houston, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art
60	60	Museum, and other institutions; Mr. Dawe moved to Dallas to
61	61	pursue his master of fine arts degree at The University of Texas
62	62	at Dallas in 2008, and he was recently honored with the school's
63	63	Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2018; and
64	64	WHEREAS, The artists who have been selected to hold these
65	65	prestigious posts have all greatly contributed to the vibrant
66	66	cultural life of the Lone Star State, and Texas is indeed
67	67	fortunate to be home to these talented individuals; now,
68	68	therefore, be it
69	69	RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas, 86th
70	70	Legislature, hereby congratulate the 2020 Texas Commission on
71	71	the Arts honorees and extend to them sincere best wishes for
72	72	continued fulfillment in their creative endeavors.
73	73	Menéndez
74	74	________________________________
75	75	President of the Senate
76	76	I hereby certify that the
77	77	above Resolution was adopted by
78	78	the Senate on March 25, 2019.
79	79	________________________________
80	80	Secretary of the Senate
81	81	________________________________
82	82	Member, Texas Senate