Camargo Foundation

Camargo Foundation
Fondation Camargo
The town of Cassis seen from the Camargo Foundation theatre
Established1967 (1967)
LocationCassis, Bouches-de-Rhône, France
Coordinates43°12′51″N 5°31′49″E / 43.2141755°N 5.5301589°E / 43.2141755; 5.5301589
TypeResearch center
Artists' Residency
FounderJerome Hill
DirectorJulie Chénot
Websitecamargofoundation.org/en/

The Camargo Foundation (French: Fondation Camargo) is a residency program for artists, scholars and public intellectuals located in Cassis, France. The foundation was established by American filmmaker and philanthropist Jerome Hill in 1967. Approximately fourteen scholars and artists are selected each year to receive a residential fellowship at the foundation. Prizes have been awarded annually since 1971.

In 2018, the Camargo Foundation campus was awarded the designation of Maison des Illustres, issued by the French Ministry of Culture to recognize the homes of people who have contributed to history, the arts and culture in general in France.

Fellows and residents

The full list of former fellows and residents can be viewed in the alumni directory of the Camargo Foundation.

Residents in the 1970s

Environmentalist Richard Gordon Lillard in Cassis
Year Country Resident
1971USAMercer Cook, professor of French and diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Senegal, Gambia, and Niger
1973USAFrancis R. Walton, classical scholar and former director of the Gennadius Library at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
1974USAIhab Hassan, literary theorist
1974USAWallace Fowlie, writer and professor of literature
1974USAVictor Brombert, philologist (1923–2024)
1977USARaymond Federman, poet
1977USARobert Xavier Rodriguez, classical composer (born 1946)
1977USARichard Gordon Lillard, author, educator, environmentalist (1909–1990)
1978USADavid T. Hanson, photographer (born 1948)
1978USADomenic Cretara, painter (1946–2017)
1979USAJesse R. Pitts, sociologist (1921–2003)
1979USAOliva Blanchette, philosopher (1929–2021)

Residents in the 1980s

Year Country Resident
1980USAJames R. Lawler, Australian-French academic (1929–2013)
1980USAMiriam Beerman, painter and printmaker (1923–2022)
1980USASerge Gavronsky, poet and translator (born 1932)
1981USAGermaine Brée, literary scholar (1907–2001)
1981USALinda Plotkin, printmaker
1981USAChristopher Yavelow, classical composer
1981USABernard Benstock, literary critic and English professor
1982USAMark Axelrod, writer and academic
1983USAAnn McMillan, composer and broadcaster (1923–1994)
1983USABarry Bergdoll, art historian and former Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
1983USADudley Andrew, film theorist
1984USARobert Carl, composer
1984USAJonathan Culler, novelist and critic
1984USAElizabeth Topham Kennan, 15th president of Mount Holyoke College
1984USAHerbert Blau, director and theoretician of performance (1926–2013)
1984USAKathleen Woodward, cultural critic and higher education leader
1985USAHenry Sussman, literary scholar
1985USACarol Jacobs, literary scholar
1985USAPatricia Blake, editor and confidante of Albert Camus
1985USARichard Wilbur, two-time Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate
1985USAPatrice Higonnet, professor
1985USAMargaret Higonnet, author and historian (b. 1941)
1985USABirutė Ciplijauskaitė, literary scholar and translator
1985USARudolph Binion, historian (1927–2011)
1986USAAlec Stone Sweet, political scientist and jurist
1986USARobert Wolke, chemist (1928–2021)
1986USAWilliam Jay Smith, poet (1918–2015)
1986USAJoel Hoffman, composer
1987USAMark Steinmetz, photographer
1987USAPhilip Lasser, classical composer (born 1963)
1987USACurtis Harnack, writer
1987USAHortense Calisher, novelist and former president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
1987USATimothy Tackett, historian (born 1945)
1988USAJudith Roode, artist and teacher (1943–2018)
1988USAMichael Lewis-Beck, political scientist (born 1943)
1988USARenée Riese Hubert, writer and academic (1916–2005)
1988EnglandDavid Bradby, drama & theatre academic (1942–2011)
1989USADaron Hagen, composer, writer, and filmmaker (born 1961)
1989USAHenri Cole, poet (born 1956)
1989USAWilliam Berry, author, artist, and professor of art

Residents in the 1990s

« En 1999, lauréate d'une bourse de la Fondation Camargo, je m'installais à Cassis. Je voulais retrouver les lieux d'inspiration de Bonnard, de Matisse, de Seurat... J'étais concentrée sur mon projet quand la guerre au Kosovo m'atteignit. La lumière si belle et si éblouissante accentuait mon sentiment de l'absurde et mon désarroi. »

"In 1999, after getting a fellowship from the Camargo Foundation, I settled into Cassis. I wanted to discover the places that inspired Bonnard, Matisse, Seurat....I was focused on my project when I learned about the war in Kosovo. The light, so beautiful and so dazzling, heightened my sense of absurdity and dismay."

— Barbara Hammer, filmmaker
Year Country Resident
1990USASheila Silver, composer (born 1946)
1990USAJames Salter, writer (1925–2015)
1990USALinda Bouchard, composer and conductor
1990CanadaMichael Bishop, academic
1990USAHenry Sussman, literary scholar
1990USAAlan Spitzer, historian (1925–2024)
1991USACarol E. Barnett, composer (born 1949)
1991USAJosette Urso, visual artist
1991USAB. H. Friedman, author and art critic
1992USARicardo Zohn-Muldoon, Mexican-American composer
1992USACole Swensen, poet (born 1955)
1992USAJack Kolbert, educator and French teacher (1927-2005)
1992USABarbara Cooper, sculptor
1992USALynne Huffer, philosophy professor
1992USAHarold Blumenfeld, composer
1993USARobert Carl, composer
1993USAJoan Benson, keyboardist (1925–2020)
1993CanadaMalcolm Forsyth, South African-Canadian musician (1936–2011)
1993USAAllan Havis, playwright
1993USAMargaret Weitz, academic (1929–2025)
1994USAJacques Servin, activist artist and one of the leading members of The Yes Men
1994USAPaul Moravec, composer (born 1957) and winner of a 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his composition Tempest Fantasy
1994USAFrede Jensen, Romance philologist
1994USABill Burgwinkle, medievalist and French scholar
1994USALaura Volkerding, photographer
1994USAMichael Lewis-Beck, political scientist (born 1943)
1995USADavid Ray (poet), poet (1932–2024)
1995CanadaPierre Ouellet, writer
1995USAPaul Jankowski, historian (born 1950)
1995USARichard Watson, philosopher, speleologist, and author (1931–2019)
1996USAJane Marcus, feminist scholar (1938–2015)
1996USAPeter Sagal, playwright and host of the National Public Radio (NPR) show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
1996USACanan Tolon, Turkish-born artist (born 1955)
1996USAJim Barnes (writer), writer and 2009-10 Oklahoma Poet Laureate
1997USAAdam Rapp, novelist and playwright
1997USABonnie Effros, historian of archaeology and 19th century France
1997USABarbara K. Altmann, literature professor and 16th president of Franklin & Marshall College
1997USAJohn Anthony Lennon, classical composer
1997USADerek Attridge, South African-born literary scholar
1998USADudley Andrew, film theorist
1998USAPaul La Farge, novelist and essayist
1998USAKevin Kopelson, literary critic
1998USANathan Currier, composer
1998USAKaren Volkman, poet
1998USAEndi E. Poskovic, visual artist and printmaker
1999USAEllen Handler Spitz, professor of children, psychology and the arts
1999USATracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting, feminist scholar
1999USACarlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, composer
1999USAChristopher Middleton, British poet and translator (1926–2015)
1999USABarbara Hammer, feminist film director, producer, writer, and cinematographer. She developed her award-winning film Resisting Paradise while in residence.
1999USARichard Foerster, poet
1999USARudolph Binion, historian (1927–2011)

Residents in the 2000s

American Composer Pauline Oliveros in the Camargo Foundation theatre in 2008.

"During a residency at the Camargo Foundation on the coast of Southern France, I was looking out my studio window and was struck with the realization that 65 years earlier my mother had been aboard a Red Cross Ship at that very location (...) There was a small red sailboat anchored beyond my window that I filmed every day as it endured dramatic storms, punishing surf, and sunny calm days. Throughout my five months at the Camargo Foundation, I stared through the camera at the red boat trying to imagine my mother’s experience during WWII."

— Jeanne C. Finley, artist
Year Country Resident
2000USAKaren McCoy, visual artist
2000USAWilliam Franke, academic and philosopher
2000USARichard Festinger, composer of contemporary classical music
2000EnglandDavid Bradby, theatre academic and Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
2000USAEzra Sims, one of the pioneers in the field of microtonal composition
2000USADaniel W. Gade, professor of Geography
2001USAMyriam J. A. Chancy, Haitian-Canadian-American writer
2001USAPatricia Hampl, memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator
2001USAEddy L. Harris, writer and filmmaker (born 1956)
2001USAGreg Hewett, poet, novelist, and professor
2001USALeighton Pierce, experimental filmmaker
2002USALynn Freed, South African-born writer
2002USASusan Harbage Page, Photographer and visual artist
2002USAJay Reise, composer
2002USAGarrett Stewart, literary and film theorist
2002USAHenry Sussman, literary scholar
2002USAJulia Watson, literary scholar focusing on the study of autobiography
2003USACusi Cram, dramatist
2003USALaird Hunt, writer, translater and academic
2003USAMelissa Kirsch, author
2003USAAlastair Minnis, Northern Irish literary critic and historian of ideas
2003USADorothy Noyes, folklorist and ethnologist
2004AustraliaRobert Aldrich, historian and writer
2004EnglandDavid Bradby, British drama and theatre academic
2004USAAngie Cruz, novelist
2004USASamantha Gillison, writer
2004USADonald Harris, composer
2004USAJoyce Kozloff, artist and co-founder of the Guerilla Girls
2004USABrenda Marie Osbey, poet
2005USAConstance Hoffman Berman, medievalist
2005USALeslie Brody, author
2005USABrian Evenson, academic and writer of both literary fiction and popular fiction
2005USALee Hyla, classical music composer
2005AustraliaGail Jones, Australian novelist and academic
2005USAJane Lackey, artist
2005USAGlori Simmons, poet and short story writer
2005USARosemary Sullivan, Canadian poet, biographer, and anthologist
2006ChiliClaudia Aravena Abughosh, visual artist
2006USAJen Bervin, poet and visual artist
2006USAVeronica Chambers, Afro-Latina author, teacher, and magazine executive
2006EnglandMichael Edwards, composer
2006USAPaul Elwood, classical composer
2006USASharon Kinoshita, professor of Medieval literature
2006USAVera Klement, artist
2006AustraliaBrian Nelson (literature professor), literature professor
2007USAFrank Baumgartner, political scientist
2007USAEdwin M. Duval, literary scholar
2007USAFenton Johnson, writer and professor of English and LGBT Studies
2007USASusan Kinsolving, poet
2007USAKaran Mahajan, Indian-American novelist, essayist, and critic
2007USAJohn McManus (author), novelist, short story writer, and youngest ever recipient of the Whiting Award
2007USALaura McPhee, photographer
2007USAB. Ruby Rich, scholar and film critic known for coining the term "new queer cinema".
2007USAKatharina Rosenberger, Swiss composer and sound-artist
2008USAMeena Alexander, Indian poet, scholar, and writer
2008USAJon Appleton, American composer and pioneer in electro-acoustic music
2008USATamar Diesendruck, composer
2008USAJeanne C. Finley, artist
2008USAJennifer Grotz, poet and translator
2008NigeriaKaren King-Aribisala, writer
2008USAW. Patrick McCray, historian
2008USAPauline Oliveros, composer and musician (1932–2016)
2008USABrenda Withers, playwright and actress
2009CanadaAlia Al-Saji, Iraq-born philosophy professor
2009USAPatricia Alessandrini, composer
2009USACatherine Chung, novelist
2009USARick Hilles, poet
2009USAToril Moi, Norwegian academic
2009USAKate Soper, composer

Residents in the 2010s

Year Program Country Resident
2010Camargo FellowshipUSABen Kiernan, Australian-born American historian
2010Camargo FellowshipUSASandra Gilbert, literary critic and poet. Known for co-authoring the second-wave feminist text The Madwoman in the Attic (1979).
2011Camargo FellowshipUSAEric Moe, composer
2011Camargo FellowshipUSADavid Rakowski, typeface designer and composer who has been a finalist twice for the Pulitzer Prize for Music
2014Camargo FellowshipUkraineNatalka Bilotserkivets, Ukrainian poet and translator
2014Parc national des CalanquesFranceGilles Clément, French gardener, garden designer and writer
2014Bread Loaf Bakeless at CamargoUSAJoAnn Balingit, 16th poet laureate of Delaware
2014Camargo FellowshipUSAAlice Kaplan, American scholar of French literature
2015Camargo FellowshipUSALee Breuer, theatre director
2015Camargo FellowshipChinaWen Hui, dancer and choreographer
2016Jerome@CamargoUSANicholas Boggs, author of Baldwin: A Love Story, for which he did research while in residence at Camargo.
2016Camargo FellowshipPalestineRula Halawani, photographer and educator
2017Camargo FellowshipUSAFaye Driscoll, dancer and choreographer
2017Jerome@CamargoUSAAmir ElSaffar, jazz musician
2017Marseille Jazz Festival des cinq continentsUSAErik Truffaz, jazz trumpeter
2018Festival de MarseilleSenegalFelwine Sarr, writer and musician
2018Camargo FellowshipMoroccoAbdallah Zrika, poet

Residents in the 2020s

Year Program Country Resident
2021Camargo FellowshipUSAGanavya, Indian and American singer, songwriter, and musician
2021Au Long CoursFranceDorothée Munyaneza, British-Rwandan singer, actress, dancer and choreographer
2022Jerome@CamargoUSASage Ni'Ja Whitson, artist, performer, writer and the founder/artistic director of The NWA Project
2023Camargo FellowshipPalestineKamal Aljafari, filmmaker and artist
2023Camargo FellowshipUSAEve Beglarian, composer and musician
2023Au Long CoursUSADread Scott and Jenny Polak, artists
2024ImpromptusFranceAdèle Haenel, author and activist
2026Habiter Le MondeUSAAmitav Ghosh, novelist and winner of the 54th Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary honour

References

  1. ↑ Amanda Millet-Sorsa (June 2023). "Artist as Thinker: The Camargo Foundation". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved August 22, 2026.
  2. ↑ "Foundation History". Camargo Foundation. Retrieved August 21, 2026.
  3. ↑ "Fondation Camargo". Maisons des illustres. Retrieved August 21, 2026.
  4. ↑ "Past Residents". Camargo Foundation. Retrieved October 6, 2026.
  5. ↑ "Francis R. Walton Papers". American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Retrieved August 21, 2026.
  6. ↑ ""Look at Don Juan"". London Review of Books. Retrieved August 21, 2026.
  7. ↑ "'RESISTING PARADISE' DE BARBARA HAMMER". Light Cone. Distribution, Promotion and Preservation of Experimental Film. February 23, 2012. Retrieved October 7, 2026.
  8. ↑ Kleinhans, Chuck (2007). "Barbara Hammer. Lyrics and History". In Blaetz, Robin (ed.). Women's Experimental Cinema. Critical Frameworks (PDF). Duke University Press. p. 194. Retrieved October 7, 2026.
  9. ↑ "Red Boat Crossing: Director's Statement". FINLEY + MUSE. February 23, 2012. Retrieved October 25, 2026.
  10. ↑ "La fondation Camargo a rouvert ses portes aux résidents". La Provence. Retrieved October 30, 2026.
  11. ↑ "Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Names First Bakeless Camargo Fellows". Midd Stories. Retrieved October 28, 2026.
  12. ↑ "Special to The News Journal: "Is any mom ever alone on Mother's Day?"". Delaware Online. Retrieved September 28, 2026.
  13. ↑ "Art Matters and Jerome Foundation Residencies at Camargo". art matters. Retrieved October 25, 2026.