Biennial statewide awards honor achievements of Texans in the arts. The Texas Cultural Trust is proud to announce Eva Longoria’s acceptance of the 2013 Texas Medal of Arts Award for Multimedia, to be celebrated at the Texas Medal of Arts(TMA Awards) in Austin, TX on March 4th and 5th 2013. Longoria, a Corpus Christi native, will receive the Multimedia Award for her work as an actress, author and philanthropist.
The TMA Awards honor great Texans who have achieved success through their creative talents and have enriched the unique culture of Texas. Since its 2001 inception, the Texas Medal of Arts Awards has honored 71 outstanding Texans including Laura Bush, Walter Cronkite, Tommy Lee Jones, Lyle Lovett, Willie Nelson, Robert Rauschenberg and ZZ Top.
Longoria starred in Desperate Housewives on ABC and has been honored with a People’s Choice Award and multiple Screen Actors Guild Awards for her work on the show. Currently, Longoria is directing and producing three new television shows and has several feature films coming out this year including “Frontera,” “Baytown Outlaws,” “Crazy Kind of Love,” and “The Dark Truth.” A philanthropist, Longoria founded Eva’s Heroes, an organization that offers aid for developmentally challenged youth. She also created The Eva Longoria Foundation, which helps Latinas build better futures through education and entrepreneurship. She is the author of “Eva’s Kitchen: Cooking with love for family and friends,” and a restaurateur boasting Beso in Los Angeles, and She Steakhouse in Las Vegas. Longoria is a graduate of Texas A&M – Kingsville.
Her fellow 2013 TMA Awards Honorees include:
Steve Miller | Music Award
Ricardo Chavira | Television Award
Gene Jones and Charlotte Jones Anderson | Individual Arts Patron Award
James Surls | Visual Arts Award
Joe Sears and Jaston Williams | Theatre Award
Big Thought, Gigi Antoni | Arts Education Award
Houston Ballet | Dance Award
Kimbell Art Foundation | Foundation Arts Patron Award
Texas Monthly | Corporate Arts Patron Award
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