Emma Levitz is a stone carver and artist currently based in Cookeville, Tennessee. She works primarily in marble, limestone, and soapstone and has predominately focused on designing and carving utilitarian objects such as mortar + pestles, plates, bowls, and other various vessels under the moniker Little Mountain Stoneworks.  This body of work has largely been inspired by fossils and other organic forms in nature, often found in the stones themselves. In recent years she has been more focused on developing a sculptural body of work that is inspired by the bizarre yet mundane elements of the human condition such as dreams, disorders, memories, and inexplicable emotional states.

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Emma grew up in southern Vermont and earned a BFA in Sculpture from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her undergraduate experience sparked an interest in the industrial arts, spending much of her time there in the foundry and metal shop learning to cast iron and fabricate. She relocated to middle Tennessee after earning her degree and began focusing her time learning to carve stone, eventually beginning Little Mountain Stoneworks in her backyard studio, nestled in a small holler in Overton County. She moved to Cookeville, Tennessee in the years that followed and continues to carve in her home studio. Her work can be found at the Appalachian Center for Craft (Smithville, TN) or The Silver Fern (Cookeville, TN).