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
- 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