SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 643
         WHEREAS, The Texas Commission on the Arts has announced the
  2025 appointments for State Poet Laureate, State Classical
  Musician, State Nonclassical Musician, State Two-Dimensional
  Artist, and State Three-Dimensional Artist; and
         WHEREAS, The state's highest accolade for excellence in the
  arts, the Texas State Artist designation is conferred on
  individuals who represent the best of our rich and diverse
  artistic community and who inspire others through their unique
  creative expression; and
         WHEREAS, Octavio Quintanilla, the 2025 State Poet
  Laureate, has authored three poetry collections, including The
  Book of Wounded Sparrows, which was on the longlist for the
  National Book Award, and Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible
  Hours, the winner of the 2024 Ambroggio Prize of the Academy of
  American Poets; he is also known for his Frontextos visual poem
  series; a former poet laureate of San Antonio, he is the founder
  and director of the VersoFrontera Literature and Arts Festival
  and publisher of Alabrava Press; he serves as a professor at Our
  Lady of the Lake University and was recently inducted into the
  Texas Institute of Letters; and
         WHEREAS, The 2025 State Classical Musician is Alecia
  Lawyer, the founder, artistic director, and principal oboist of
  ROCO, the trailblazing music ensemble in Houston; named by
  Musical America Worldwide as one of classical music's top 30
  influencers for 2015, she has recorded for John Cage, soloed with
  Mstislav Rostropovich, given a recital at Carnegie Hall,
  recorded with the Sorbonne Orchestra, and performed with various
  orchestras and chamber groups in France and Germany; over the
  years, she has also been recognized as the Outstanding Chamber
  Orchestra Founder by the Houston Chronicle and as the Sigma Alpha
  Iota Musician of the Year; and
         WHEREAS, Texas native Miranda Lambert was named the State
  Nonclassical Musician for 2025; this acclaimed artist received
  Grammy Awards for Best Country Album for her releases Platinum
  and Wildcard, and she has earned numerous honors from the Academy
  of Country Music and the Country Music Association; she was
  listed as one of the 100 Most Influential People by Time magazine
  in 2022, and in 2024, she received the Country Icon Award at the
  People's Choice Country Awards; and
         WHEREAS, Angelbert Metoyer, the State Two-Dimensional
  Artist, explores memory and social history through the lenses of
  science, philosophy, and religion, incorporating nontraditional
  materials that include coal, glass, debris, oil, tar, mirrors,
  and gold dust; since 1994, he has exhibited his art at the Venice
  Biennale and Art Basel in Miami Beach and in many solo
  exhibitions and group shows; in addition, he has works in the
  permanent collections at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, as
  well as the U.S. Department of State, Charles H. Wright Museum of
  African American History, and Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig,
  Germany; and
         WHEREAS, The 2025 State Three-Dimensional Artist, Steve
  Parker, is an Austin-based artist and musician who creates
  sculptural ecosystems that transform spaces into large-scale
  collaborative performances; he is the recipient of a Creative
  Capital Award and Rome Prize, as well as grants from the
  Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Fulbright Scholar Program, and
  National Endowment for the Arts; an associate professor at
  The University of Texas at San Antonio, he is the artistic
  director of Collide Arts and has showcased his work at the
  American Academy in Rome, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art,
  the Fusebox Festival, the Lincoln Center Festival, and South by
  Southwest; and
         WHEREAS, The artists who have been selected to hold these
  prestigious posts have all greatly contributed to the vibrant
  cultural life of the Lone Star State, and Texas is indeed
  fortunate to be home to these talented individuals; now,
  therefore, be it
         RESOLVED, That the Senate of the State of Texas, 89th
  Legislature, hereby congratulate the 2025 Texas Commission on
  the Arts honorees and extend to them sincere best wishes for
  continued fulfillment in their creative endeavors.
 
  Menéndez
   
   
   
    ________________________________ 
        President of the Senate
     
        I hereby certify that the
    above Resolution was adopted by
    the Senate on May 31, 2025.
   
   
   
    ________________________________ 
        Secretary of the Senate
   
   
   
    ________________________________ 
         Member, Texas Senate