Stig Marcussen graduated from Mississippi State 

with a bachelor of arts degree that emphasized painting 

and commercial art.  He attended the New Orleans 

and the Pennsylvania Academics of Fine Arts, both 

on full one-year scholarships.  Best known for his 

mural at Biloxi Regional Medical Center, Marcussen 

works about 80 hours a week developing his art.  "I 

capture the idea so that people don't see the paint 

anymore," he said.  "They see the idea."  He keeps 

dozens of illustrated hardbound journals depicting 

his life and life around him.  The volumes are filled 

with artistic expressions of things great and things 

trivial.  Everything is a subject for an artist, and if 

Marcussen ever does run out of ideas, he can refer 

to his journals to jog his memory.  "Ninety percent of 

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and other great artists.