Carron Little

she/her

Glasgow, Scotland/ Chicago U.S.

Performance title: Art to Heart with Duff Norris
Video Still credit Dewy Norris

Carron Little is the Covener of Flow 2023 and the organizer of the Out of Site artist collective. She is Scottish American and lives in Glasgow, Scotland and Chicago, USA. Carron graduated with a Master in Fine Arts from School of the Art Institute in Chicago specializing in Fiber & Material Studies and Digital Video Animation. She taught in the Performance Department from 2014 – 2018 and received a Shapiro Research Fellowship in 2016.  Carron studied a BA Honors at Goldsmiths' College, London University receiving a First-Class Honors in Textiles.

She has received numerous awards and grants for her artwork including a British Arts Council residency at Barnett College, London, U.K. from 2000 – 2001, the Propeller Grant from Gallery 400 and Andy Warhol Foundation (2015), the Chicago/Swiss artist in residence (2016) supported by the Swiss Benevolent Society of Chicago and Chicago Sister Cities International, and most recently, the Hyde Park Art Center Artist-Run Award (2023) and was a second round finalist for Creative Capital in 2022.

To date Carron has presented her performances and artwork in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Maryland, and Oklahoma in the USA and internationally in Bosnia, Bulgaria, Canada, England, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Scotland, Spain, and Switzerland. Significant works to date include the public engagement projects Dream Minds (2012-2013), City Alive with Dreams (2014-2015), Neighborhood Magic for Beverly, Chicago (2015 – 2016), Gie Ben Ilka Gill | To Give In Each Measure (Spring 2021), an online interactive public performance project for the community of Ludington, Michigan and Eight Acts, a live stream poetry performance written in response to the USA 2020 election. Most recently, Carron created an outdoor performance art with Duff Norris (NYC) at Barrowland Park, Glasgow, Scotland called Art to Heart.  

Carron is regularly invited to present her artwork & Out of Site’s work at Universities, conferences, and museums.  Most recently, she was invited to present at Intimate Bridges by Theater Entropia in Athens, Greece funded by the European Union; at the University of Darmstadt, Germany; and at a symposium organized by ieke Trinks and B Ajay Sharma at Chandigarh Museum, New Delhi, India. Carron writes policy on equity, diversity, and inclusion in the arts authoring the 50 | 50 Initiative that was successfully implemented at the College Arts Association 2020.

As a creative practitioner Carron believes in the blossoming power of art facilitate diverse conversations with diverse communities and publics.