ABOUT
Katie Allcorn is an artist and forever student with a BFA from Mississippi State University. After completing her emphasis in Graphic Design, she operated a freelance studio for ten years. Sprinkled throughout that decade, Katie also operated and sold a restaurant and music venue, produced two original print collections and became a mother to two baby girls.
From creating spaces and brands to collecting tiny rock pigments from river beds, Katie continues to explore the bottomless well of creative expression. Despite the cultural pressures to sum up her life and work in 100 characters or less, Katie prays that she stays open to new opportunities to learn and that her work never fits into a pretty box of words. When not daydreaming the next passion project, she can be found riding around in a bus with her small family, pressing tiny prints in her laundry-room studio, or inspiring young people through mess-making in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
RESUMe
Sticks creative / owner, creative director / 2010-2021
An accessible design agency that caters to small businesses in Central Texas, Southwest Colorado, and Northwest Arkansas. Started as a side hustle, and slowly gained traction and experienced enough volume for me to quit my day job.
Print and web design
Social media management
Copywriting
Brand voice and strategy
Press kit development
Neighbor’s Kitchen + Yard / owner, Creative director / 2014-2018
A true passion project for me. My husband and I found a gem of a building deep in the heart of Texas on the Colorado River, and created a restaurant, bar and live music venue with a jukebox vibe and honky-tonk spirit. I was in the driver’s seat from conception, to the trenches of daily operations, all the way to finally signing the business over to the new owners.
Complete creative direction, branding and content creation
Created the public voice for social media outlets and managed them daily
Special event design, signage and marketing strategies
Developed a charitable arm, Neighbor’s Helping Neighbors, in effort to reach a wider audience and impact our community
Wrote and created a visual press kit and strategy for distribution, resulting in three free press opportunities in the top local publications within five months of opening.
FAIL JEWELRY / STUDIO MANAGER / 2012-2013
Organized wholesale orders and production schedule.
Developed operations efficiencies.
Redesigned blog and worked with web developer to redesign website.
Communicated with shop owners across the country.
Product photoshoot styling and press kit
uship.com / project manager / 2010-2012
Showed understanding of the business and promoted from design position within a year.
Worked closely with stakeholders to prioritize business decisions.
Managed the web development team in delivering product improvements.
Responsible for roadmap development and production schedule.