We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Mark Little. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Mark below.

Mark , appreciate you joining us today. Can you talk to us about a project that’s meant a lot to you?

The most meaningful project I had the opportunity to be apart was working with the Generate camps by YM360 production team. Throughout the summer, we traveled across the country performing in front of over 20,000 people and serving over 600 churches across the United States, located within the states of Alabama, Georgia, New Mexico, Texas, and more. These performances created an atmosphere of high energy worship, drama, recreation, and bible study to whom the gift of giving helped all attending students to know Christ and thus opened a way, possibly, for Him to be known across the world. Being able to be a part of such a production and to be used as an instrument of God, as I felt, gave me the opportunity to change lives, and at the same time, became humbling moments for me, in glorifying His name. Given that, the process was truly a blessing and allowed me to realize that this WHOLE EXPERIENCE was more than acting and being able to perform among large crowds: It was much much bigger than me! It is a wonderful and beautiful lifetime feeling to know that I was able to be a part of such a dynamic team where we could wake up each and every morning, go through the day, and be called to a greater purpose in which we were all dedicated to spreading the gospel through all of our unique skills and talents.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I was born and raised in Washington, District of Columbia (DC), and later life my family, eventually, moved to Rockville, Maryland. There is a special sense of pride growing up in a city full of so much culture and artistry that’s very much resonant within the people of the area. I didn’t know then, yet realize, now that everything and everyone, crossing my path was helping to shape me, shape my creative mind. My parents made sure to involve me and my two younger brothers, in many extracurricular activities and experiences that would help challenge us in discovering our own strengths and weaknesses, as well as, our likes and dislikes, and for their efforts, love for us in that manner: I will forever be grateful to them and for them, because I was able to find and know what works for me, in finding my passion in the arts, as an actor, including being able to provide a service to others via providing content creation and social media management. Given that, over the last couple of years, I have had the pleasure to collaborate with various companies and musicians to help them promote themselves and associated brands on major social media platforms.

I am always open and looking to work with more brands and being able to use my knowledge and expertise to help them expand. They are welcome to reach out to me for any of these services: Emcee; Creator and Promoter of their content, as well as, managing social media, and print modeling.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

The most rewarding aspect of being an artist or creative is the ability to inspire others through my performances. It provides me great joy to know that I can influence the audience in a positive way and that lives can be changed. Don’t get me wrong, putting on a show is always fun and rewarding in itself, but it is so much bigger than that. We as creatives play a huge part in affecting how our audience feels and our job is to be able to make people feel good and from doing that be able to inspire the next creatives to also do the same.

What can society do to ensure an environment that’s helpful to artists and creatives?

I believe society should disperse the notion that making a living in the creative ecosystem is not an anomaly. The massiveness of the creative ecosystem, consistent of artists and creatives in entertainment for example is lucrative and diverse. Not all artist and creatives are making a living in Hollywood, but many of them are designing murals for cute couples’ new apartments, or providing nightly entertainment at the bars and restaurants we all frequent. Further, social media has made it increasingly possible for creatives to make a living through easy accessibility of their art. Society must dispel the ideology that “creative work” is not real work.

Furthermore, the wide-spread use of social media could provide vast support to artists and creatives. Albeit, that I am aware that the medium, currently, supports the creative ecosystem; it is by far, fragmented, dispersed and segmented (FDS) toward individual/group artists and creatives by their production teams and collaborative contractors. Social media could expand beyond the FDS support system by creating a collaborative open-platform among the various social media companies, which in return will allow each artist and creative to receive recognition for their art that can ultimately lead to sales that will help support them.

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