Art was inducted in 2015. In this photo with Art are Darrell Bledsoe and Randy Wills from the Board of Directors for the Texas Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Art is among the very few of the inductees who have received Grammy Awards for producing historic Gospel Music albums.

As a musician, Art established his career credentials from his music studies at SMU and his connection to classic rock-n-roll and traditional Gospel Music from the 1960s till today. Eventually, he would join Smokey Montgomery in leading the Light Crust Doughboys until he passed away in 1998, at which time Art took over ownership and control the historic music group formed in 1931.