Texas 2021 - 87th Regular

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1	1	SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 412
2	2	WHEREAS, The Texas Commission on the Arts has announced the
3	3	2021 appointments for the positions of State Poet Laureate, State
4	4	Musician, State Two-Dimensional Artist, and State
5	5	Three-Dimensional Artist; and
6	6	WHEREAS, The state's highest accolade for excellence in the
7	7	arts, designation as a Texas State Artist is conferred on those
8	8	individuals who represent the best of our rich and diverse
9	9	artistic community and who inspire others through their unique
10	10	creative expression; and
11	11	WHEREAS, Cyrus Cassells, the 2021 State Poet Laureate, is
12	12	the author of eight volumes of poetry, including The Gospel
13	13	According to Wild Indigo, which was a finalist for the NAACP
14	14	Image Award and the Balcones Prize, as well as More Than Watchmen
15	15	at Daybreak and the forthcoming The World That the Shooter Left
16	16	Us; his translation of Still Life with Children: Selected Poems
17	17	of Francesc Parcerisas won the Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award from
18	18	the Texas Institute of Letters, and his other honors include a
19	19	Lambda Literary Award, a Lannan Literary Award, two grants from
20	20	the National Endowment for the Arts, a Pushcart Prize, and a
21	21	William Carlos Williams Award; moreover, he was named a National
22	22	Poetry Series winner; he is a professor of English at Texas State
23	23	University; and
24	24	WHEREAS, The 2021 State Musician is Leon Bridges, whose
25	25	first album, Coming Home, debuted at number six on the Billboard
26	26	charts in 2015 and went on to be certified as a gold record; his
27	27	critically acclaimed second album, Good Thing, was released in
28	28	May 2018; he has written and performed songs with such artists as
29	29	Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, Nick Waterhouse, Kacey Musgraves,
30	30	Lecrae, and Gary Clark Jr., and he has performed at the White
31	31	House, the Library of Congress, and other venues around the
32	32	world; a four-time Grammy nominee, he won for Best Traditional
33	33	R&B Performance for his song "Bet Ain't Worth the Hand"; and
34	34	WHEREAS, The unique work of Annette Lawrence, the 2021
35	35	State Two-Dimensional Artist, turns the ordinary data of
36	36	everyday life into drawings, objects, and installations, and her
37	37	pieces are included in the collections of the Museum of Fine
38	38	Arts, Houston, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Rachofsky
39	39	Collection, Artpace San Antonio, and the Blanton Museum of Art in
40	40	Austin, among others; her work appeared in the 1997 Biennial at
41	41	the Whitney Museum of American Art, and she is the recipient of a
42	42	MacDowell Fellowship, the Moss/Chumley Award from the Meadows
43	43	Museum, and the Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant from the
44	44	Dallas Museum of Art; she recently retired as a professor of
45	45	studio art at the University of North Texas, and in August 2021,
46	46	she will begin a visiting faculty position at Bennington College
47	47	in Vermont; and
48	48	WHEREAS, Jennifer Ling Datchuk, the 2021 State
49	49	Three-Dimensional Artist, was born in Ohio and raised in
50	50	Brooklyn; trained in ceramics, she utilizes materials often
51	51	associated with traditional women's work, such as porcelain,
52	52	hair, and textiles; she earned her bachelor of fine arts degree
53	53	at Kent State University and her master of fine arts degree from
54	54	the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and she has
55	55	participated in residencies in Germany, China, the Netherlands,
56	56	and San Antonio; she received the 2017 Emerging Voices Award from
57	57	the American Craft Council and was named a United States Artists
58	58	Fellow in Craft in 2020; she is an assistant professor of art at
59	59	Texas State University and maintains a studio in San Antonio; and
60	60	WHEREAS, The artists who have been selected to hold these
61	61	prestigious posts have all greatly contributed to the vibrant
62	62	cultural life of the Lone Star State, and Texas is indeed
63	63	fortunate to be home to these talented individuals; now,
64	64	therefore, be it
65	65	RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas, 87th
66	66	Legislature, hereby congratulate the 2021 Texas Commission on
67	67	the Arts honorees and extend to them sincere best wishes for
68	68	continued fulfillment in their creative endeavors.
69	69	Seliger
70	70	________________________________
71	71	President of the Senate
72	72	I hereby certify that the
73	73	above Resolution was adopted by
74	74	the Senate on May 18, 2021.
75	75	________________________________
76	76	Secretary of the Senate
77	77	________________________________
78	78	Member, Texas Senate