Texas Cultural Trust http://www.txculturaltrust.org To inspire, integrate, and illuminate the arts in Texas. Mon, 20 May 2013 20:18:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 Laura Street: Letter to the Editor, Amarillo Globe News http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/05/laura-street-letter-to-the-editor-amarillo-globe-news/ http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/05/laura-street-letter-to-the-editor-amarillo-globe-news/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 19:36:45 +0000 Caroline Hammond http://www.txculturaltrust.org/?p=4439 Laura Street, Texas Cultural Trust Board member wrote to the Amarillo Globe News thanking Representative Four Price and Senator Joan Huffman for their leadership and successful support of the TCA Sunset Bill.

http://amarillo.com/opinion/letters-editor/2013-05-10/keep-arts-industry-thriving-amarillo

]]> http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/05/laura-street-letter-to-the-editor-amarillo-globe-news/feed/ 0 Arnold Garcia writes in the Austin American Statesman about the importance of investing in the Arts. http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/05/arnold-garcia-writes-in-the-austin-american-statesman-about-the-importance-of-investing-in-the-arts/ http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/05/arnold-garcia-writes-in-the-austin-american-statesman-about-the-importance-of-investing-in-the-arts/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 15:09:49 +0000 Caroline Hammond http://www.txculturaltrust.org/?p=4422 http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/opinion/a-small-investment-makes-cash-registers-sing/nXdNt/?icmp=statesman_internallink_invitationbox_apr2013_statesmanstubtomystatesman_launch

]]> http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/05/arnold-garcia-writes-in-the-austin-american-statesman-about-the-importance-of-investing-in-the-arts/feed/ 0 State Board of Education Approves new Fine Arts TEKS http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/04/state-board-of-education-approves-new-fine-arts-teks/ http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/04/state-board-of-education-approves-new-fine-arts-teks/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:28:41 +0000 Caroline Hammond http://www.txculturaltrust.org/?p=4407 Continue reading →]]> On April 19th the SBOE approved the new Fine Arts TEKS. The new Fine Arts TEKS includes the Trust’s Arts and Digital Literacy Curricula (all eight courses: Art and Media Communications I; Art and Media Communications II; Music and Media Communications I; Music and Media Communications II; Theater and Media Communications I; Theater and Media Communications II; Dance and Media Communications I and Dance and Media Communications II.)

Once the new Fine Arts are implemented, all of these courses can be offered as a fine arts credit. The new Fine Arts TEKS will be implemented in the 2015-2016 school year.

For more info, visit: www.txartandmedia.org

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The Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) is pleased to announce the Texas State Legislature’s 2013 and 2014 appointments to the positions of state poet laureate, state musician, state two-dimensional artist and state three-dimensional artist.
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]]> http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/04/texas-commission-on-the-arts-announces-texas-state-artists/feed/ 0 http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/04/4373/ http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/04/4373/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:40:20 +0000 Caroline Hammond http://www.txculturaltrust.org/?p=4373 Last year the Trust distributed copies of Adventures in the Arts to elementary school students in Marfa, Alpine, Fort Davis, Fort Stockton and Valentine, Texas.

Marfa made its debut on 60 minutes last night.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50144819n

 

 

 

]]> http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/04/4373/feed/ 0 2013 Texas Medal of Arts Awards http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/04/2013-texas-medal-of-arts-awards-4/ http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/04/2013-texas-medal-of-arts-awards-4/#comments Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:50:50 +0000 lwilshusen http://www.txculturaltrust.org/?p=4367 Continue reading →]]> Texas Monthly
Published: April 8, 2013

The Texas Medal of Arts Awards spotlighted and celebrated Texans who have achieved greatness through their creative talents, as well as those whose generosity has opened doors to artistic opportunity for Texans of all ages. Hosted by Chris Harrison of ABC’s “The Bachelor,” the event was attended by honorees, legendary artists, entertainers and arts patrons from across the state. The 2013 honorees included Texas Monthly, Steve Miller, Eva Longoria, Ricardo Chavira, Joe Sears and Jaston Williams, James Surls, Houston Ballet, Gigi Antoni, Gene Jones and Charlotte Jones Anderson, and the Kimbell Art Foundation. Guests also enjoyed performances by Steve Miller, Ray Benson, and The Tuna Guys.

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]]> http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/04/2013-texas-medal-of-arts-awards-4/feed/ 0 Lawmakers table budget amendment to transfer arts funding to VFDs http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/04/lawmakers-table-budget-amendment-to-transfer-arts-funding-to-vfds/ http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/04/lawmakers-table-budget-amendment-to-transfer-arts-funding-to-vfds/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2013 21:45:45 +0000 lwilshusen http://www.txculturaltrust.org/?p=4359 Continue reading →]]> Marshall News Messenger
Written by: Naomi Prioleau
Published April 5, 2013 

The Texas Legislature voted on Thursday to table an amendment to the 2013 Texas budget that would transfer funds from the Texas Commission on the Arts to volunteer fire departments.

The amendment to amendment 116, authored by Representative David Simpson of Longview, was tabled in a 108-38 vote…Continue Reading

]]> http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/04/lawmakers-table-budget-amendment-to-transfer-arts-funding-to-vfds/feed/ 0 Charles Matthews: Sustaining arts, culture is key to jobs creation http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/04/charles-matthews-sustaining-arts-culture-is-key-to-jobs-creation/ http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/04/charles-matthews-sustaining-arts-culture-is-key-to-jobs-creation/#comments Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:28:42 +0000 Caroline Hammond http://www.txculturaltrust.org/?p=4354 Continue reading →]]> Charles Matthews, Vice Chair of the Texas Cultural Trust authored an op-ed on the Importance of the Arts & Culture Industries to sustaining Texas’ vibrant economy. The op-ed ran in the Austin American Statesman, The San Antonio Express News, the Waxahachie Daily Light and in the Houston Chronicle.

http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/Matthews-Sustaining-arts-culture-is-key-to-jobs-4404145.php

 

 

]]> http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/04/charles-matthews-sustaining-arts-culture-is-key-to-jobs-creation/feed/ 0 The Arts Put on Quite an Economic Show http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/04/the-arts-put-on-quite-an-economic-show/ http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/04/the-arts-put-on-quite-an-economic-show/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:16:44 +0000 lwilshusen http://www.txculturaltrust.org/?p=4347 Continue reading →]]> Corpus Christi Caller Times
Written by: Charles Matthews
Published March 30, 2013

Arts and culture help fuel our state’s economy — it’s that simple. Economic impact studies have proven time and time again that there’s an inextricable link between the creative industries in a community and that community’s economic development, job recruitment and tourism.

I had the privilege of serving on the Select Committee on Economic Development, created by the Legislature in 2011 and signed into law by Gov. Rick Perry. One of the areas of focus was relocation of companies to Texas. Although many factors were discussed as reasons for a decision to relocate, the cultural landscape can be a very important part of the decision-making process….Continue Reading

]]> http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/04/the-arts-put-on-quite-an-economic-show/feed/ 0 The Artist and the City http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/02/the-artist-and-the-city/ http://www.txculturaltrust.org/2013/02/the-artist-and-the-city/#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:39:43 +0000 lwilshusen http://www.txculturaltrust.org/?p=4307 Continue reading →]]> Sandra Cisneros, 2003 Texas Medal of Arts Honoree, Photo by Jeff Wilson

Sandra Cisneros, 2003 Texas Medal of Arts Honoree
Photo by Jeff Wilson

Texas Monthly
Jake Silverstein
Published: February 2013

For thirty years, when she wasn’t writing books or winning genius grants, Sandra Cisneros has been pushing and prodding San Antonio to become a more sophisticated (and more Mexican) city. Now she’s leaving town. Did she succeed?

This winter, I met Sandra Cisneros for lunch at Liberty Bar, the new Liberty Bar, which moved in 2010 to the King William District after 25 years in a ramshackle building near the Pearl Brewery. The new Liberty has yet to acquire the ambience of the old one, which made it an appropriate setting for a conversation about, among other things, how San Antonio has changed since Cisneros first moved here, in 1984. Back then she had just published The House on Mango Street, a book that would fundamentally alter the course of American fiction by knocking down doors for Latino writers. A Chicago native, she moved to the city for a job as the literature director of the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, a job that, for various reasons, would not hold her for long. The city itself was a different story. Though she has had a sometimes contentious relationship with the place, it has been her home ever since. During that time Cisneros won a MacArthur Fellowship (or “genius grant”), founded the internationally renowned Macondo Writing Workshop, and emerged as perhaps the most significant Chicano writer in the country. This month, after nearly thirty years, she is leaving San Antonio.

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