Jerry Burrow obtained a BSE in Art Education at Henderson State University in 1973. He first started out teaching in the Arkadelphia public school system during the 1973/1974 school year. He later moved to Little Rock and taught Interior Design and Fashion Merchandising at South Central Career College, he also worked at the Design Exchange in North Little Rock during this period. In 1980 he was the owner and principle designer for J. L. Burrow, Inc., Custom Interior Design. In 2005 Jerry closed his successful business so that he could return to his home town of Arkadelphia and to his first love of teaching. Jerry teaches Art as well as Interior Design and Landscape Design in the Delight Public School System.

Jerry works in a variety of art mediums. He is passionate about encaustic oil painting (the artist paints with hot wax and oil pigment to create a finished painting) as well as traditional oil painting. He has worked in pottery, collage', box sculpture and most recently, with fused glass.