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2017 TEXAS
MEDAL
of
ARTS
AWARDS
CELEBRATING
TEXAS LEGENDS
+ RISING STARS
Tuesday
FEBRUARY 21
VIP Preview Party
Honoree Dinner
+
Wednesday
FEBRUARY 22
Stars of Texas Brunch
Awards Ceremony
Gala Dinner
Texas Performing Arts
The University of Texas at Austin
Co-Chairs: Peter Holt and
Guillermo Nicolas
Special thanks to our sponsors:
2017 TEXAS
MEDAL OF ARTS
512 478-5289
www.texasmedalofarts.org
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AWARDS
ABOUT THE AWARDS
“
Art,” a poet once wrote, “is
man’s nature; nature is God’s
art.” If this is so, and I think that
it is, I would add: Texas is the
human artist’s ultimate muse.
And Texas is God’s masterpiece.
No one who has the good
fortune to be born or even just
live in Texas ever needs to be
taught what beauty is — one
need only open one’s senses to
the varied bounty that surrounds
and abounds here. In the Texas
sky, in her earth, and in her
wildflowers are colors enough
to paint a thousand canvases.
A symphony plays through her
streams, her thunderstorms,
and her birdsongs. Texas leaves
no writer without a tale. And
just the fact of being Texan
seems ample training for the
dramatic arts.“
— Dan Rather,
Master of Ceremonies,
premier Texas Medal of Arts
Awards, March 2001; and
2015 Texas Medal of Arts
Honoree in Television
Since its inception in 2001, the Texas Medal
TEXAS MEDAL OF ARTS HONOREES
2001
2005
2009
2013
Van Cliburn, Fort Worth: Lifetime Achievement
Vikki Carr, El Paso: Lifetime Achievement
Laura W. Bush, Dallas: Standing Ovation
Tommy Lee Jones, San Saba: Film
Phylicia Rashad, Houston: Television/Theatre
Robert Rauschenberg, Port Arthur: Lifetime Achievement
Big Thought, Gigi Antoni,
Dallas: Arts Education Award
Willie Nelson, Austin: Music
Lyle Lovett, Klein: Music
Lake/Flato Architects, San Antonio: Architecture
Debbie Allen, Houston: Dance
Ben Stevenson, O.B.E., Houston: Dance
James Dick, Round Top: Arts Education
luminaries who have achieved
Neil Hess, Amarillo: Theatre
Robert Wilson, Waco: Theatre
Anheuser Busch Companies, Corporate Arts Patron
John Biggers, Houston: Visual Arts
Jose Cisneros, El Paso: Visual Arts
Robert Rodriguez, San Antonio: Film
Kimbell Art Foundation, Fort Worth: Foundation
Arts Patron Award
greatness through their creative
Horton Foote, Wharton: Literary Arts
Naomi Shihab Nye, San Antonio:
Literary Arts
Edith O’Donnell, Dallas: Individual Arts Patron
Texas Monthly, Austin: Corporate Arts Patron Award
Austin City Limits, Austin: Multimedia
Steve Miller, Dallas: Music Award
Ginger Head-Gearheart, Fort Worth:
Arts Education
Clint Black, Houston: Music
Eva Longoria, Galveston: Mulitmedia Award
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long,
Austin: Individual Arts Patron
T.R. Fehrenbach, San Benito: Literary Arts
Houston Ballet, Houston: Dance Award
Betty Buckley, Fort Worth: Theatre Arts
James Surls, Huntsville: Visual Arts Award
Keith Carter, Beaumont: Visual Arts
Joe Sears and Jaston Williams
(Greater Tuna), Austin: Theatre Award
of Arts Awards have spotlighted and
celebrated 99 Texas leaders and
talents, as well as those whose
generosity has opened doors
to artistic opportunity for Texans
of all ages. As the signature event for the
Texas Cultural Trust, the Texas Medal of Arts Awards
highlights and promotes the power of the arts in our
children’s education, the state’s economy, and our
unique and proud Texas culture.
Flaco and Santiago Jimenez,
San Antonio: Folk Arts
Wayne Bell, Austin: Architecture
Gilberto Zepeda, Jr., Pharr: Arts Education
Jack Blanton, Houston: Individual Arts Patron
SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio: Corporate Arts Patron
The Meadows Foundation, Dallas: Foundation Arts Patron
2003
2013
Kelli Blanton and Marita Fairbanks
2011
Alice Carrington Foultz and Adair Margo
2009
Karen Oswalt and Pamela Willeford
2007
Debbie Montford and Aaronetta Pierce
2005
Hector Gutierrez and Aaronetta Pierce
2003
Deborah Hammond and Mary Teeple
2001
Jocelyn Straus
Walter Cronkite, Houston: Lifetime Achievement
Barbara Smith Conrad, Pittsburg:
Lifetime Achievement
2015
T Bone Burnett, Fort Worth: Music
ZZ Top, Houston: Music
Jamie Foxx, Terrell: Film
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Rogers: Dance
Ray Benson, Austin: Multimedia
Charley Pride, Dallas: Music
Judith Ivey, El Paso: Theatre
Marcia Gay Harden, Austin: Film
Kilgore College Rangerettes,
Kilgore: Dance
Tommy Tune, Wichita Falls: Dance
Jesús Moroles, Corpus Christi: Visual Arts
Bill Paxton, Fort Worth: Film
Rick Lowe, Houston: Visual Arts
Enid Holm, Odessa: Theatre
Sandra Brown, Waco: Literary Arts
Bob Schieffer, Fort Worth: Journalism
Dr. Pepper Snapple Group, Plano: Corporate Arts Patron
Glenna Goodacre, Dallas: Visual Arts
Bill Wittliff, Austin: Multimedia
James Drake, Lubbock: Visual Arts
Margaret McDermott, Dallas: Individual Arts Patron
Sandra Cisneros, San Antonio: Literary Arts
Paul Baker, Hereford: Arts Education
Alley Theatre, Houston: Theatre
Emilio Nicolas, San Antonio: Multimedia
Dealey Herndon/State Capitol Preservation
Diana and Bill Hobby, Houston:
Individual Arts Patron
Robert M. Edsel, Dallas: Literary Arts
Dan Rather, Wharton: Television
Tom Staley, Austin: Arts Education
Chandra Wilson, Houston: Television
Neiman Marcus, Dallas:
Corporate Arts Patron
HEB, San Antonio: Corporate Patron
Charles Renfro, Houston: Architecture
Sarah and Ernest Butler,
Austin: Individual Patron
Robert Schenkkan, Austin: Theatre
Marca Lee Bircher, Dallas: Arts
Education
Gene Jones and Charlotte Jones Anderson
2011
Ornette Coleman, Fort Worth: Music
Lydia Mendoza, San Antonio: Folk Arts
2015
2007
Rose Fess Parker, Fort Worth: Film/Television
John Graves, Glen: Lifetime Achievement
Project, Austin: Architecture
PREVIOUS AWARD CHAIRS
Nasher Foundation/Raymond D. Nasher,
Dallas: Foundation Arts Patron
Gene Jones and Charlotte
Jones Anderson, Dallas:
Individual Arts Patron Award
Nancy B. Hamon, Dallas: Individual
Arts Patron
Sid W. Richardson Foundation,
Fort Worth: Foundation Arts
Patron
Booker T. Washington High School for
the Performing & Visual Arts, Dallas:
Arts Education
Exxon Mobil Corporation, Irving:
Corporate Arts Patron
Lawrence Wright, Austin: Literary Arts
Houston Endowment Inc.,
Houston: Foundation Arts Patron
The Gatlin Brothers, Seminole: Lifetime
Achievement
Ruth Altshuler, Dallas: Standing Ovation