Texas 2021 - 87th Regular

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1	1	SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 413
2	2	WHEREAS, The Texas Commission on the Arts has announced the
3	3	2022 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, The 2022 State Poet Laureate is writer and
11	11	educator Lupe Mendez; his 2019 book, Why I Am Like Tequila, won
12	12	the John A. Robertson Award from the Texas Institute of Letters,
13	13	and his work can also be seen in a variety of publications,
14	14	including Aster(ix), the Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, and the
15	15	Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series; holding a master's
16	16	degree in creative writing from The University of Texas at El
17	17	Paso, he has been awarded fellowships by CantoMundo, the Macondo
18	18	Foundation, and the Crescendo Literary/Poetry Foundation
19	19	Emerging Poet Incubator; moreover, he is an activist and the
20	20	founder of Tintero Projects, which works with Latinx writers and
21	21	other writers of color; and
22	22	WHEREAS, Known as the "Queen of the Accordion," Eva Ybarra
23	23	has been named the 2022 State Musician; the leader of Eva Ybarra y
24	24	Su Conjunto, she specializes in writing and composing original
25	25	conjunto music, and she is known for pushing the boundaries of
26	26	the genre by exploring nonstandard chord progressions; she began
27	27	playing the accordion at four years old and received her first
28	28	record deal, with Rosina Records, at just 14; in the 1990s, she
29	29	released a number of records that further raised her profile, and
30	30	she has taught at the University of Washington, Palo Alto
31	31	College, and the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center; she is the
32	32	recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the South Texas
33	33	Conjunto Association and a National Heritage Fellowship from the
34	34	National Endowment for the Arts; and
35	35	WHEREAS, Celia Álvarez Muñoz is the 2022 State
36	36	Two-Dimensional Artist; a conceptual multimedia artist known for
37	37	her photography, installations, and public art, she is
38	38	represented in many public and private collections, and her work
39	39	has been included in the Whitney Biennial and, more recently, in
40	40	an internationally touring exhibition called "Radical Women:
41	41	Latin American Art, 1960-1985"; she is the recipient of two
42	42	National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a CAA Committee on
43	43	Women in the Arts Recognition Award, and a Lifetime Achievement
44	44	Award in the Visual Arts from Art League Houston; and
45	45	WHEREAS, African American sculptor Jesse Lott has been
46	46	chosen as the 2022 State Three-Dimensional Artist; inspired by
47	47	collecting and recycling discarded items, he works with a variety
48	48	of materials, including paper, metal, wood, and wire; his solo
49	49	exhibition, "Jesse Lott: Urban Frontier Artist," was presented
50	50	by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Washington, D.C., and the
51	51	Houston Art Car Museum, and his pieces have also been shown at the
52	52	Studio Museum and Alternative Museum in New York; he has held an
53	53	all-ages workshop in his studio for many years, and he helped
54	54	motivate the creation of the Project Row Houses in Houston; he
55	55	was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award in the Visual
56	56	Arts by Art League Houston in 2016; and
57	57	WHEREAS, The artists who have been selected to hold these
58	58	prestigious posts have all greatly contributed to the vibrant
59	59	cultural life of the Lone Star State, and Texas is indeed
60	60	fortunate to be home to these talented individuals; now,
61	61	therefore, be it
62	62	RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas, 87th
63	63	Legislature, hereby congratulate the 2022 Texas Commission on
64	64	the Arts honorees and extend to them sincere best wishes for
65	65	continued fulfillment in their creative endeavors.
66	66	Seliger
67	67	________________________________
68	68	President of the Senate
69	69	I hereby certify that the
70	70	above Resolution was adopted by
71	71	the Senate on May 18, 2021.
72	72	________________________________
73	73	Secretary of the Senate
74	74	________________________________
75	75	Member, Texas Senate