Camargo Foundation

Not to be confused with Iberê Camargo Foundation.

Camargo Foundation

Fondation Camargo
The town of Cassis seen from the Camargo Foundation theatre
Established	1967 (1967)
Location	Cassis, Bouches-de-Rhône, France
Coordinates	43.2141755°N 5.5301589°E / 43.2141755; 5.5301589
Type	Research center Artists' Residency
Founder	Jerome Hill
Director	Julie Chénot
Website	camargofoundation.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 of the Camargo Foundation

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

Residents in 1970s

Environmentalist Richard Gordon Lillard in Cassis

Year	Country	Resident
1971	USA	Mercer Cook, professor of French and diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Senegal, Gambia, and Niger
1973	USA	Francis R. Walton, classical scholar and former director of the Gennadius Library at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
1974	USA	Ihab Hassan, literary theorist
1974	USA	Wallace Fowlie, writer and professor of literature
1974	USA	Victor Brombert, philologist (1923–2024)
1977	USA	Raymond Federman, poet
1977	USA	Robert Xavier Rodriguez, classical composer (born 1946)
1977	USA	Richard Gordon Lillard, author, educator, environmentalist (1909–1990)
1978	USA	David T. Hanson, photographer (born 1948)
1978	USA	Domenic Cretara, painter (1946–2017)
1979	USA	Jesse R. Pitts, sociologist (1921–2003)
1979	USA	Oliva Blanchette, philosopher (1929–2021)

Residents in 1980s

Year	Country	Resident
1980	USA	James R. Lawler, Australian-French academic (1929–2013)
1980	USA	Miriam Beerman, painter and printmaker (1923–2022)
1980	USA	Serge Gavronsky, poet and translator (born 1932)
1981	USA	Germaine Brée, literary scholar (1907–2001)
1981	USA	Linda Plotkin, printmaker
1981	USA	Christopher Yavelow, classical composer
1981	USA	Bernard Benstock, literary critic and English professor
1982	USA	Mark Axelrod, writer and academic
1983	USA	Ann McMillan, composer and broadcaster (1923–1994)
1983	USA	Barry Bergdoll, art historian and former Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
1983	USA	Dudley Andrew, film theorist
1984	USA	Robert Carl, composer
1984	USA	Jonathan Culler, novelist and critic
1984	USA	Elizabeth Topham Kennan, 15th president of Mount Holyoke College
1984	USA	Herbert Blau, director and theoretician of performance (1926–2013)
1984	USA	Kathleen Woodward, cultural critic and higher education leader
1985	USA	Henry Sussman, literary scholar
1985	USA	Carol Jacobs, literary scholar
1985	USA	Patricia Blake, editor and confidante of Albert Camus
1985	USA	Richard Wilbur, two-time Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate
1985	USA	Patrice Higonnet, professor
1985	USA	Margaret Higonnet, author and historian (b. 1941)
1985	USA	Birutė Ciplijauskaitė, literary scholar and translator
1985	USA	Rudolph Binion, historian (1927–2011)
1986	USA	Alec Stone Sweet, political scientist and jurist
1986	USA	Robert Wolke, chemist (1928–2021)
1986	USA	William Jay Smith, poet (1918–2015)
1986	USA	Joel Hoffman, composer
1987	USA	Mark Steinmetz, photographer
1987	USA	Philip Lasser, classical composer (born 1963)
1987	USA	Curtis Harnack, writer
1987	USA	Hortense Calisher, novelist and former president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
1987	USA	Timothy Tackett, historian (born 1945)
1988	USA	Judith Roode, artist and teacher (1943–2018)
1988	USA	Michael Lewis-Beck, political scientist (born 1943)
1988	USA	Renée Riese Hubert, writer and academic (1916–2005)
1988	England	David Bradby, drama & theatre academic (1942–2011)
1989	USA	Daron Hagen, composer, writer, and filmmaker (born 1961)
1989	USA	Henri Cole, poet (born 1956)
1989	USA	William Berry, author, artist, and professor of art

Residents in 1990s

Year	Country	Resident
1990	USA	Sheila Silver, composer (born 1946)
1990	USA	James Salter, writer (1925–2015)
1990	USA	Linda Bouchard, composer and conductor
1990	Canada	Michael Bishop, academic
1990	USA	Henry Sussman, literary scholar
1990	USA	Alan Spitzer, historian (1925–2024)
1991	USA	Carol E. Barnett, composer (born 1949)
1991	USA	Josette Urso, visual artist
1991	USA	B. H. Friedman, author and art critic
1992	USA	Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Mexican-American composer
1992	USA	Cole Swensen, poet (born 1955)
1992	USA	Jack Kolbert, educator and French teacher (1927-2005)
1992	USA	Barbara Cooper, sculptor
1992	USA	Lynne Huffer, philosophy professor
1992	USA	Harold Blumenfeld, composer
1993	USA	Robert Carl, composer
1993	USA	Joan Benson, keyboardist (1925–2020)
1993	Canada	Malcolm Forsyth, South African-Canadian musician (1936–2011)
1993	USA	Allan Havis, playwright
1993	USA	Margaret Weitz, academic (1929–2025)
1994	USA	Jacques Servin, activist artist and one of the leading members of The Yes Men
1994	USA	Paul Moravec, composer (born 1957) and winner of a 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his composition Tempest Fantasy
1994	USA	Frede Jensen, Romance philologist
1994	USA	Bill Burgwinkle, medievalist and French scholar
1994	USA	Laura Volkerding, photographer
1994	USA	Michael Lewis-Beck, political scientist (born 1943)
1995	USA	David Ray (poet), poet (1932–2024)
1995	Canada	Pierre Ouellet, writer
1995	USA	Paul Jankowski, historian (born 1950)
1995	USA	Richard Watson, philosopher, speleologist, and author (1931–2019)
1996	USA	Jane Marcus, feminist scholar (1938–2015)
1996	USA	Peter Sagal, playwright and host of the National Public Radio (NPR) show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
1996	USA	Canan Tolon, Turkish-born artist (born 1955)
1996	USA	Jim Barnes (writer), writer and 2009-10 Oklahoma Poet Laureate
1997	USA	Adam Rapp, novelist and playwright
1997	USA	Bonnie Effros, historian of archaeology and 19th century France
1997	USA	Barbara K. Altmann, literature professor and 16th president of Franklin & Marshall College
1997	USA	John Anthony Lennon, classical composer
1997	USA	Derek Attridge, South African-born literary scholar
1998	USA	Dudley Andrew, film theorist
1998	USA	Paul La Farge, novelist and essayist
1998	USA	Kevin Kopelson, literary critic
1998	USA	Nathan Currier, composer
1998	USA	Karen Volkman, poet
1998	USA	Endi E. Poskovic, visual artist and printmaker
1999	USA	Ellen Handler Spitz, professor of children, psychology and the arts
1999	USA	Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting, feminist scholar
1999	USA	Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, composer
1999	USA	Christopher Middleton, British poet and translator (1926–2015)
1999	USA	Barbara Hammer, feminist film director, producer, writer, and cinematographer
1999	USA	Richard Foerster, poet
1999	USA	Rudolph Binion, historian (1927–2011)

Residents in 2000s

Year	Country	Resident
2000	USA	Karen McCoy, visual artist
2000	USA	William Franke, academic and philosopher
2000	USA	Richard Festinger, composer of contemporary classical music
2000	England	David Bradby, theatre academic and Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
2000	USA	Ezra Sims, one of the pioneers in the field of microtonal composition
2000	USA	Daniel W. Gade, professor of Geography
2001	USA	Myriam J. A. Chancy, Haitian-Canadian-American writer
2001	USA	Patricia Hampl, memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator
2001	USA	Eddy L. Harris, writer and filmmaker (born 1956)
2001	USA	Greg Hewett, poet, novelist, and professor
2001	USA	Leighton Pierce, experimental filmmaker
2008	USA	Pauline Oliveros, composer and musician (1932–2016)

Residents in 2020s

Year	Program	Country	Resident
2008	Impromptus	USA	Nicholas Boggs, author

External links

• Official Website.
• Directory of Past Residents.