2025 TMAA Honorees

Dennis Quaid is an Emmy® Award winner and two-time Golden Globe® nominee, who’s known for his roles in hit films THE ROOKIE, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, TRAFFIC, VANTAGE POINT, FREQUENCY,...

Since 1920, the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) has worked to ensure excellence in music education for all Texas students. TMEA’s 20,400 members include over 14,100 school music educators who...

Throughout his career, Donald Moffett (b. 1955; San Antonio, TX) has fused formal experimentation and social commentary to produce an expansive, provocative oeuvre that interrogates both the individual body and...

Richard Linklater (writer/director) is a five-time Oscar nominee, two-time Golden Globe winner, two-time Bafta winner who has directed 25 feature length films. His more recent credits include “Boyhood” (2014), “Everybody...

Broadway: CHICAGO (as Roxie Hart), CANTERBURY TALES (Tony Award nomination), THE BOYFRIEND (Tony Award nomination, Drama Desk & Outer Critics Circle Awards), PETER PAN (Tony nomination), MY ONE AND ONLY...

Elizabeth Crook is the author of six novels, including The Night Journal, which received a Spur award from Western Writers of America; Monday, Monday, which received the Jesse H. Jones Award from The Texas Institute...

Anyone who has listened to a Gary Clark Jr. album or watched the four-time Grammy Award winner perform live knows that he’s a gifted multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and performer. And never...

When Mercedes Bass enters any concert hall, there is always a flourish of excitement.  Ushers rush to open her box.  On cue, there is an imaginary drum roll as she...

Terry Allen is an internationally recognized visual artist and songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position straddling the disparate, and usually distant, worlds of conceptual art and country music. As...