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Emily.
Emily Little is an eclectic visual artist and writer based in Charlotte, NC. Born in Spain, raised in New Hampshire and Hawaii, and settled in North Carolina, Little has taken a little piece of everywhere she’s lived with her and incorporated her unique voice and views into her art. Over the past few years, Little has exhibited her work in numerous shows, including those at the Mint Museum, the Bechtler Museum, the Charlotte BOOM Festival, and Charlotte International Art Festival. Her pieces are part of private collections across the United States. Little’s written and visual works both reflect her constant striving towards full authenticity, releasing the biases placed on us by society, eliminating the fears and anxieties each situation creates, letting go of the tendency to please others, and bearing the beautiful and the ugly, the mundane and the profound, and every other concept of duality found in this reality. She specializes in creating mixed-media contemporary statement pieces depicting the paradoxical concepts of the human experience, and feels most inspired when interacting with other creatives and discussing how to improve the world and community.
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Emily Little is an eclectic visual artist, writer, and poet with several years of experience in the Charlotte arts community. She is an active exhibiting artist in Charlotte, most recently recognized for her work shown in the Mint Museum in January 2025 and her first solo show hosted by Theatre Charlotte in February 2025. Little is also recognized for her multiple public art projects commissioned for Charlotte’s annual BOOM Festivals, from live painting collaborations to original concepts such as her “A Sunday Afternoon in Charlotte” installation, displaying the works of 23 individual local artists to create one large 10’ x 6’ recreation of Georges Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” displayed for viewing by thousands of festival attendees. Little is also recognized by her 2023 “Tiny Doors to Nowhere…(or Somewhere)” installations of miniature wooden doors featured in the Charlotte International Arts Festival’s 100 Tiny Things exhibit, viewed by tens of thousands of festival attendees. Little has had a quote from her original poetry displayed on the front steps of the Mint Museum from 2021 to 2022 reading “There is no rhyme or reason, your purpose is only to experience.”