TMAA Past Honorees 2003

Tommy Tune – dancer, singer, choreographer and director – is the winner of nine Tony Awards and is the only person in theatrical history to win in four different categories...

Charley Pride is one of country music’s premier artist and one of the top twenty best-selling country artists of all time. He began his unofficial music career in the late...

Fess Parker, the legendary actor who portrayed frontiersman Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone, has been called an American icon. He graduated from The University of Texas in 1950 and completed...

Lydia Mendoza is this century’s most outstanding and renowned figure in Mexican-American music. In her long, groundbreaking career, Mendoza united the intimate, family song styles that were characteristic of northern...

Houston Endowment Inc., a private charitable foundation established in 1937 by Mr. and Mrs. Jesse H. Jones, has assisted numerous Texas arts organizations through grants of nearly $50 million during...

Enid Holm – dancer, musician, theatre director and author – is the former executive director of Texas Nonprofit Theatres. Born in Mexia, Texas, in 1928, Holm went on to perform...

Nancy Blackburn Hamon is a lifelong philanthropist and patron of the arts. Born in San Antonio, she attended the University of Texas at Austin. She married Jake L. Hamon in...

Author John Graves, best known for his books Goodbye to a River, Hard Scrabble and From a Limestone Ledge, is one of Texas’ most beloved writers. Born in Fort Worth,...

Glenna Goodacre’s sculptures reflect a lifelong passion for portraying the human figure. The most recognized of her bronzes is the Vietnam Women’s Memorial in Washington, D.C. Among her other monuments...