Lectures/Workshops:

  • Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
  • Craft and Folk Art Museum forum with Betye Saar, Los Angeles, CA
  • Sesnon Gallery, Porter College, UC Santa Cruz, CA
  • Levine Museum of the New South, Charlotte, NC
  • CCAC , Oakland California
  • Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
  • University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
  • University of Capetown, Capetown, South AfricaBittney Springs High School, Nevada City, CA
  • University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
  • Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
  • Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
  • Piedmont Middle School, Charlotte, NC
  • Northwest School of the Arts, Charlotte, NC
  • Afro American Cultural Center, Charlotte, NC
  • Tryon Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC
  • Cabarras Art Guild, Concord, NC

TV Appearances:

  • WLOS 13, ABC Affiliate Asheville, NC
  • Out of the Ashes, WTVI Public Television Documentary
  • North Carolina Now, WUNC Public Television
  • Assignment Carolinas, WJZY 46
  • South Carolina Public Television
  • WBTV 3 News, story on Hugh McColl
  • WBTV 3 News, Black History Month Showcase

Radio Appearances:

  • KXL, KXL, Speaking Freely, Portland, OR 2019
  • KWMR, San Francisco, CA 2018
  • KBOO, Portland, OR 2018
  • WUNC, NPR 2002
  • Radio Disney 2002
  • KERA, NPR Dallas, Texas 2000
  • Mike Collins, WFAE, NPR 1998, 2000, 2008
  • WSOC Morning Show, 1999
  • Todd Munce Show, NPR, Detroit MI. 1998

Collections:

  • Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
  • Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
  • Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. 
  • Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
  • Ambassador of Madagascar
  • Jeff Warner Designs, San Francisco, CA, Hawaii
  • Peter Luder, Howard Kanini, London, England
  • Traveling Collection of Judy Norell,
  • Myth, Memory and Imagination (Washington, DC)
  • Bank of America Corporate Offices, Charlotte, NC
  • Jon D. Lowly    SF, CA
  • Betsy Schmidt  Sacramento, CA
  • Allison Knapp  SF, CA
  • Emily Leff   Granite Bay, CA 
  • Aynesh Johnson  NY, NY
  • Patty and Jeff Baird- Cedar House Sport Hotel, Truckee, CA
  • Sara Harris   L.A., CA
  • Lisa Eisenpresser L.A., CA  
  • Tanya Jordan-Taylor, Buchanan and Jordan Inc-Reno, CA
  • Shaye Whittlesey  Nevada City, CA
  • Wendy Whitson Asheville, NC 
  • Paul Geenty Nevada City
  • Danny Simmons, NYC
  • Robert Gray, Palm Springs, CA
  • Rick Wulff, Berkeley, CA
  • Dr. Nicholas Daniels and Dr. John Eckels, San Francisco, CA
  • First Charter Bank Headquarters, Charlotte, NC
  • Tobacco Farm Life Museum, Kenly NC
  • Afro- American Cultural Center, Charlotte, NC
  • Davis Steel, Matthews, NC
  • Museum of the New South, Charlotte, NC
  • Mary Tribble, Charlotte, NC
  • Jodie and Frank Turner, Charlotte, NC
  • McColl Center for Visual Art
  • Headlands Center for the Arts

Bibliography:

  • Karren, Howard, An Exhibit Makes Waves in Provincetown, The Provincetown Independent, October, 15, 2020
  • Driscoll, Kathi Scrizzi, Provincetown Galleries, Artists Speak Out About Unprecedented Times, Cape Cod Times, October 14, 2020
  • Larimore, Phillip On Willie Little: Proof of Promises Kept, Charlotte Viewpoint Metropolitan Ideas & Art, July, 2016
  • Schreiber, Barbara, Willie Little Takes on Tea Party, Klan in Exhibition, Charlotte News and Observer, September, 2014
  • Titcombe, Tara, Best of Winston Salem, US Airways Magazine, September, 2010
  • Kopp, Bill, Willie Little’s Juke Joint: A Slice of the 50s, Laurel of Asheville, February, 2010
  • Kopp, Bill, Juke Joint: Hookers, Batwings, Pigs’ Feet and Hair Tonic, Mountain Express, Asheville, 12/16/2009
  • Motsinger, Carol, Juke Joint Revisted: Interactive YMI Exhibit re-creates lost culture, Citizen Times, Asheville, 12/13/2009
  • Barden, Louise, The Darker Side of ‘Mixed Company’, South Park Magazine, 5/2008
  • Vance, Donna, Exhibit adds to our grasp of divisions, Charlotte Observer,1/18/2008
  • Singleton, Erica, Breaking Mythic assumptions, The Charlotte Post,1/24/2008
  • Richard, Paul, Smithsonian’s ‘Juke Joint’ Last Call for a Vanished South
  • Washington Post, 9/29/2003
  • ‘Juke Joint’ Exhibit Opens In American Jazz Museum, Kansas City Call, 2003
  • Lewis, Samella, PhD, African American Artists, 4th Edition, 2003
  • Dickson, Laurie, Ode To Southern Roots, Artists’ Interiors… Creative Spaces, Inspired Living, 2003
  • Lewis, Scott, ‘Out of the Box’ Artist Willie Little Gets Playful with Race, Creative Loafing, Charlotte, NC, 6/5/02
  • Maschal, Richard, Dolls Foster Study of Racial Stereotypes, Charlotte Observer, 6/3/02
  • Greenburg, Blue, Down Memory Lane in the South, The Herald Sun, Durham, NC, 09/02
  • Raleigh News & Observer, 10/02
  • Arts & Science Council Newsletter, 2002
  • Home Grown…Celebrating Arts of North Carolina, SECCA Catalogue, 2001
  • Lee, Heath-Hartage, Treasure Hunt, Charlotte Place, November 2001
  • Parker, Alan-Michael, South African Artists Depict ‘Truths’, Charlotte Observer, 08/01
  • Paterson, Tom, A Little Homework, Winston-Salem Journal, 06/03/01
  • Getting A Handle on ‘Baggage’, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 8/17/01
  • Maschal, Richard,’ Prayer’: Focus on Faith Through the Artist’s Lens, Charlotte Observer, 05/11/01
  • Like A Prayer: A Jewish and Christian Presence in Contemporary Art, Catalogue, 2000
  • The Hourglass Project: Baggage, Catalogue, 2000
  • Muller-Price, Debra, A Sanctuary for the Arts, Southern Accents, March-April, 2000
  • Swisher, Amy, Little’s Big Gift, Creative Loafing, 09/02/00
  • Brown, Derrick, ‘Door’ Opens for Charlotte Artist in Residence, Charlotte Post, Summer, 2000
  • Willie Little’s tell-a-tale art, Independent Tribune, 03/31/00
  • Downtown Magazine, Summer 2000, Winter 2001

Grant, Kandice, Willie Little, A Revivalist of the Rural South Uses Art to Spin Living Tales of Times Past, Cultural Calendar, 04/05/00

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  • Higgins, Katherine, Little Draws from his Experiences as a Country Boy, The Smithfield Herald, 04/13/00
  • Simpson, Thea, Little’s Art Tells Family Story, Life on Eastern NC Tobacco Farm, The Wilson Daily News, 04/18/00
  • Fox, Catherine, Where Creativity Can Flourish, Atlanta Journal- Constitution, 01/09/00
  • Fox, Catherine, Charlotte’s New Devotion to the Arts, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 01/09/00
  • Dunn, Debra, Artist Fellowship Awarded, Charlotte Observer, 06/23/00
  • Norman, Bud, Art Display Celebrates Good Friends in Low Places, Wichita Eagle, 08/00
  • Kansas African American Museum Inc., and Kansas Art Commission & K.T Weidemann Foundation Present Juke Joint, Catalogue, 2000
  • Create Something, Charlotte Magazine, 01/01
  • Brown, Linda-Louise, Americans, Creative Loafing, 02/27/99
  • Myth, Memory and Imagination: Universal Themes in the Life and Culture of the South, Catalogue, The collection of Judy Norell, 1999
  • Miller, Hanna, Jukin’ Charlotte Magazine, May 1999
  • Lewis, Scott, Southern Exposure, Northern Light, Creative Loafing, 10/9/99
  • Residents: 1999/2000, Catalogue, Tryon Center for Visual Art, 1999
  • Juke Joint: A Community Story, Cover Story, North Carolina Arts Council Newsletter, Spring/Summer 1999
  • Arts & Science Council Newsletter, Autumn 1999
  • Haight,Kathy, Artsy Inaugural, Charlotte Observer, 07/11/99
  • Meadows, Bob, Exhibit Portrays Life on a Tobacco Farm, Charlotte Observer, 08/30/98
  • Brown, Linda-Louise, Praise Singer, Creative Loafing, 08/98
  • Juke Joints Jive at Museum, Michigan Press, 07/23/98
  • Colby, Joy-Hakanson, Multimedia ‘Juke Joint’ Pulls Visitors into the Southern Memories, The Detroit News, 07/3/98
  • Cohen, Keri- Guten, Sculptures Bring Juke Joint to Life, Detroit News& Free Press, 08/16/98
  • Pearson, Craig, Cultural Celebration, The Windsor Star, 08/14/98
  • Museum Seeks ‘Paradise’ Memories, The Monitor, 07/16/98 (Michigan)
  • This Joint is Jumpin’ (all Detroit, Michigan area, 07/26/98)
  • Framingham Observer
  • Garden City Observer
  • Westland Observer
  • Rochester Eccentric
  • Troy Eccentric
  • Southfield Eccentric
  • West Bloomfield Eccentric
  • Plymouth Observer
  • Birmingham Eccentric
  • Canton Observer
  • Livonia Observer
  • Colby, Joy- Hakanson, Artist Crafts a Slice of African American Life, Detroit Press, 1998
  • Moran, K- Michelle, Rural Aesthetic, Troy Times (Detroit) 08/5/98
  • Harley, Cathy, At Penn Center…The ‘Joint Jumping’, The Packet, Beaufort, SC, 1997
  • Toppman, Lawrence, Installation Evokes Civil Rights –Era Church, Charlotte Observer, 1997
  • Day, Jeffery, Gallery Exhibit Reserves Viewers’ Place at Juke Joint, The State Newspaper, SC, 03/09/97
  • Joy, Pain Meet in ‘Juke Joint’, Greensboro News& Record, 05/08/97
  • Marley, Dan, Hometown Hangout, The Macon Telegraph, 06/20/97
  • MacNeil, William, Crossing Cultures Provide Impetus for Art Show, Pasatiempo, Santa Fe, NM, 04/97
  • Santa Fe Magazine, 1997
  • Seawright, Sandy, Two Way Street, Creative Loafing, 08/15/97
  • Young, Jeri, ‘Amazing Grace’ Exhibit at New South, Charlotte Post, 10/31/96
  • Drake, Nicholas, Little Creates a ‘Juke Joint’ From his Memory, The Post & Courier, Charleston, SC, 06/20/96
  • Walker, Sherry, Pride Goes to ‘Juke Joint’, Pride Magazine, August, 1996
  • Walker, Sherry, Willie Little’s Juke Joint, C Magazine, Volume 2, Number 3, Cover Story, Spring, 1996
  • Meadows, Bob, Artist Brings his Childhood to Life, Charlotte Observer, 04/07/96
  • Mint Museum of Art, Catalogue, 1994-95

Other Experience:

  • Grant Panelist, Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, Oregon, 2020 
  • National Advisory Board, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC, Emeritis
  • National Advisory Board, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC, 2011-2015
  • Board of Directors, Tryon Center for Visual Art. Charlotte NC 2001-2002, Advocate for fellow artists, Strategic and Diversity committees