For 25 years in Amarillo, Mr. Fowler was in full-time music ministry, first at Paramount Terrace Christian Church, and then at First Christian Church. He also continued his work in schools, judging UIL competitions in Odessa, Amarillo and Dallas, as well as a clinician to local school choirs and All District Choirs.  He was also Vice President of Church and Community Choirs for Texas Choral Directors Association in the nineties. He retired from ministry in 2016 and moved to Tyler to be closer to family and to get back to his first love, teaching children about music. He loves his school and his profession.

Angela currently serves as the team lead for the visual and performing arts team at her school and is deeply involved in Caldwell’s arts integration team.  In the community, Angela serves as the Chair of the City of Tyler’s Downtown Arts Coalition. In 2019, she was a featured speaker at UT Tyler’s first Professional Practices Art Symposium to encourage art majors to pursue the fulfilling and needed field of art educators.

Her personal work includes the mural under the Gentry bridge “Forgiveness”, mixed media pieces, and in her most recent work she welded a passion flower out of steel to contrast nature and man- made materials.  She led her students in painting a mural downtown that showcases the joys of childhood on a wall that had historically been subject to vandalism.

Her passions include exposing young people to art and art experiences in the studio and in the community, helping core teachers integrate visual arts into their subjects, and adding positivity through art.  Jennings believes that art is an integral tool in a student’s success academically, emotionally, and socially.

Bobi Jo began her degree at Grace College of the Bible in Omaha, Nebraska where she met her husband Don.  Once their boys were in school full-time, she decided to finish her Bachelor of Arts in Music Education at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa.  Bobi Jo is certified in Conversational Solfege, Orff Instrumentation and World Drumming.

During her 20 years of teaching, she has directed vocal jazz, show, choirs, choir and elementary choirs.  Her high school choirs have won multiple awards all over the upper Midwest.  Her show choir, Sound Sensation, performed in New York City shortly after 9/11.

While at Moore Middle School, Bobi Jo has grown the program to almost double the size in just three short years.  Every year she has students performing with the Region 21 All Region Honor Choir.  With the Tyler ISD Foundation Grant for Great Idea she received this past January, she will begin a show choir on the Moore Middle School campus. She looks forward to getting kids excited about singing and expressing their love for music through show choir.

teaching art in the public-school system for the past 26 years. She taught one year at Pittsburg

Junior High, and the following year started teaching at Gilmer High School where she taught for 14

years. She has always believed in instilling in her students a love for art and pride for one’s

community. While at Gilmer, she and her students worked closely with the City of Gilmer

creating two large scale murals for their downtown area. They also worked with local businesses

on inside mural projects. Her students recreated over 100 paintings by famous

artists that lined the hallways of the high school. In 1998 Kelly was named Teacher of the Year

for Gilmer Independent School District. She is currently in her 11th year teaching at Harmony High School and continues to encourage artistic expression and a love for the arts. Her students work can be seen all around the school through various murals and art projects. Kelly was born and raised in Upshur County and loves being able to work at the same school she attended growing up. She received her

Associates Degree in Art at Tyler Junior College and a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Art and

Education from the University of Texas, Tyler. Kelly considers herself extremely blessed to be able to introduce and encourage a love for art to each and every student who enters her classroom.