Stacy Clark
01 Compendiary
an analog dame
moving through a digital
world – she is on it
A product of the Mississippi Delta, a Mississippi State University graduate, and a graphic designer by trade, Stacy’s career in design and project management spans 20 years in the fields of advertising, marketing, communications, and publishing. Seven of those years were spent as editor-in-chief of Catfish Alley, a magazine covering the towns and counties that make up the Golden Triangle area of Mississippi. A marketing and communications position with the Mississippi Museum of Art brought her to Jackson, and a professional crush on the portfolio of Mad Genius led her to pursue having one of its lab coats for her very own.
02 Questions for Stacy
What is your hometown?
Share a bit about your family.
What’s your passion? What are your hobbies?
How did you hear about Mad Genius?
What is the one thing no one really knows about you?
Tell us about your first day at Mad Genius.
Of all the world’s geniuses, whom do you most admire?
02 Q&A with Stacy
What is your hometown?
Clarksdale, Mississippi
Share a bit about your family.
My dad is from Houston, Mississippi, and my mom is from Pawnee, Illinois. I like to think that my Yankee half explains my preference for Cream of Wheat over grits and my aversion to azaleas and cheese straws.
I have two older sisters and a younger brother, and there’s a 15-year age gap between the oldest and youngest. The best part about growing up under the same roof as Silent Generation-ers, a Baby Boomer, Gen X-ers, and a Millennial? The expansive music collection.
What’s your passion? What are your hobbies?
A spontaneous and fateful audition for MSU’s University Choir and Madrigal Singers sparked a concentrated interest in choral music, and ever since, I’ve used it as a vehicle for finding my place in a community. I’ve had the pleasure of performing with various church choirs, the New Orleans Symphony Chorus, the Oxford Civic Chorus, the Columbus Choral Society, and since moving to Jackson, The Mississippi Chorus and Jackson Choral Society.
In recent years, I’ve challenged myself by getting involved with community theater. While I cherish my experiences onstage, assistant directing a production of “Urinetown: The Musical” for Starkville Community Theatre was one of the most rewarding (and hardest) experiences of my life.
How did you hear about Mad Genius?
I had the fortune to work with Mad Genius’ video department in 2017 on a commercial for the Mississippi Museum of Art’s bicentennial exhibition, Picturing Mississippi: 1817-2017: Land of Plenty, Pain, and Promise. As is the case with many non-profits, the Museum’s budget for the project was pretty small, but the MadG team made every dollar count through their creativity and resourcefulness.
What is the one thing no one really knows about you?
I kept bees for a time… that really seems to surprise people.
Tell us about your first day at Mad Genius.
It was the week of Christmas, so the office was fairly empty, but my first two days were essentially a project management bootcamp with Janie Boersma, before she left MadG to move to Austin, Texas, with her family.
Of all the world’s geniuses, whom do you most admire?
Mary Oliver. Viewing the world through her eyes is a precious opportunity that everyone should take by spending time with her poems. She finds beauty, and often amusement, in every aspect of the world. She knew how to laugh at herself, which is an ability I covet. I’m serious a great deal of the time, and reading her books of poetry—Dog Songs for example—is a rollercoaster ride of emotions, one I love to take as often as possible.
Stacy is:
Stacy is
listening to an episode of Smartless.
