03/23/2026
Meet Ms. Jacqueline Bowman aka Ms. Jackie.
Ms. Jackie is an arts instructor at the We Creation Center in South Dallas — teaching hands-on vocational skills-sewing, fashion merchandising, and fragrance design for candles, perfumes, and body oils to middle school students at St. Philip’s School and Community Center. The program has the larger goal of equipping young people with real entrepreneurial skills. But her reach doesn’t stop with the youth.
The We Creation Center, a “hub for human-centered design and innovation” is a collaboration of St. Phillip’s and Dallas Designing Dreams, a community space open to anyone who wants to learn — and Ms. Jackie makes herself available to everyone. It was through St. Philip’s Senior Programs that she began building relationships with a group of women by volunteering to join them on senior field trips. Those field trips became get-togethers. Those get-togethers became something she describes as “a sister circle for the prevention of suffering and silence.”
Every cape and hat the ladies are wearing was designed and created by Ms. Jackie herself — revealed as a surprise on the day of this portrait session. A gift, from her hands and her heart.
She doesn’t show up because she has to. She shows up because she wants to. And the difference is written all over every face in these photos. 🧡
📸 Photographed at the Moody Performing and Fine Arts Center at St. Philip’s School and Community Center, South Dallas.
