East Texas Music Teachers Association

Special Thanks to the East Texas Communities Foundation Evans Merrick Grant for making the Helen Elbert Collaborative Music & Fine Arts Festival possible!

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2026 Helen Elbert Collaborative Music and Fine Arts Festival Art Collaboration

Ine Galeri Burke Edgewood ISD 3rd-5th grade Art Students
Composition Waltz in C # minor by David Sekulic
Composition Plastic Thing by Chris Rahn

Lisa Horlander All Saints Episcopal School 7th-8th grade Art Students
Composition Whistle's Theme by Judah Creed Sanchez

Alicia Quijano St. Gregory Cathedral School Kindergarten Art Students

Composition When the Spiders Come Charley Fontanot

2026 Helen Elbert Collaborative Music and Fine Arts Festival Whistle's Theme Art Collaboration with All Saints Episcopal School Plastic Thing Art Collaboration with Edgewood ISD Waltz in C Art Collaboration with Edge...

Come out and join us! 1-5:00 pm.

TODAY!!!! 1:00-5:00 Rogers Palmer Performing Arts Center located on the TJC Campus. 1:00-5:00 p.m. Programs on the half hour, make-and-take art, art display, face painting, and Kappa Psi is selling snacks in the courtyard.

Helen Elbert Collaborative Music and Fine Arts Festival Saturday, April 11th Program Four at 4:15

Helen Elbert Collaborative Music and Fine Arts Festival Interlude three in the Rogers Palmer Performing Arts Center Lobby This Saturday, April 11th.

Meet Helen Elbert Collaborative Music and Fine Arts Festival returning Composer Maria Genusa. Maria Genusa is a young piano teacher, composer, and performer currently studying Piano Pedagogy at the University of Texas at Tyler. She has three albums on Spotify, YouTube, iTunes, and many other streaming platforms. She has been featured on composer Matthew Mayer’s website solopiano.com as well as his Spotify playlists. “Love Is a Patient Flower” is about giving to people kindness and love consistently, even when we feel those people are undeserving. She will perform her composition 'Love is a Patient Flower' for a dance collaboration featuring students from Rose City Arts Academy, under the direction of Kimberly Paige Lee and Nicholas Sheffield.

TJC Music Kappa Kappa Psi - Zeta Xi will be assisting with stage management, face painting, make-and-take art, and all things Helen Elbert Collaborative Music and Fine Arts Festival this Saturday, April 11th. Thank you Zeta Xi!

We are excited to have some of these wonderful people from UT Tyler Music Department Lambda Pi Chapter of the Southwest District of Kappa Kappa Psi managing our stage for the 2026 Helen Elbert Collaborative Music and Fine Arts Festival this Saturday April 11th!

We are excited to announce the UT Tyler's Lambda Pi Chapter of the SouthWest District of Kappa Kappa Psi has been reinstalled! Thank you to our alumni and current students for being part of the installation and chapter. 👏

A special thank you and recognition to Christopher Rahn for doing the hard work of recreating the chapter! Thank you, Chris! 🎉🥳