Carron Little

Carron Little is an interdisciplinary artist working in drawing, print, collage, sculpture, and performance art fused with her poetry. Carron fuses her artistic practice with performance to create quirky, funny, and profound experiences for the public in alternative spaces and places like banks, parks, churches in addition to galleries and museums. Carron sits on the WPB Arts Committee and organizes the public performance art organization outofsite_chi.

 

Seminal public engagement projects for Chicago include Dream Minds (2010 - 2013) where she interviewed the public and wrote poetry about their sleep dreams, City Alive with Dream (2014 - 2015) where she activated the Public Dream Poetry and worked with a choir to compose the poems to lyrical form, this traveled as a performance around the city of Chicago. In 2016 Beverly Arts Alliance invited Carron to create Neighborhood Magic, (2015 - 2016, 2019) where she interviewed eight people over the age of seventy about their important life moments and worked with an eight person choir to compose the poems to lyrical form. Carron was selected as the Chicago artist to go to Switzerland in 2016 to create a public engagement project where she interviewed women between the ages of 20 to 100 writing poetry and creating a visual body of work inspired by the women and their stories. This became a solo exhibition at Gallery A&D in Highland Park in partnership with Ragdale Foundation. The public sculptures created for Neighborhood Magic were installed in Maryland as a public project for an Art Walk where the public could listen to the choir singing the poetry in 2019 via QR codes. From 2018 - 2019 Carron toured internationally with a poetry performance inspired by the Spare Rib Revisited project.

 

Most recently, Carron was commissioned to create a public engagement project for Ludington, Michigan called Gie Ben Ilka Gill | To Give In Each Measure (2021 - 2022) and has exhibited her interactive sculpture at Chicago Design Museum in a exhibition called Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow by Industry of the Ordinary. Her next performance will be for Beverly Arts Alliance on Saturday September 28, 2024 as part of the Art Walk. Carron will be in the lobby of Beverly Arts Center from 12noon - 5pm.

 

Carron was invited to sit on the Wicker Park Bucktown Arts Committee by David Ginople, of fabulous Store B Vintage in 2010 and continues to support the artistic and creative community in Wicker Park and Bucktown and is very appreciative for all the hard work that the people in the office do.

 

Carron has also produced public performance art in Wicker Park and Bucktown since 2011 so if you have come across a spontaneous surprise it was probably organized by Carron. All of these performances live on the website in video where you might see yourself engaging in some way: https://www.outofsitechicago.org/our-archive

Visit www.wickerparkbucktown.com to view more art around WPB.