Chamindika Wanduragala is a Sri Lankan American artist and the founder and director of Monkeybear’s Harmolodic Workshop, which supports Native, Black, and IPOC in creating puppet theater. She loves sharing joy through music and transporting people to other worlds through puppetry/stop motion and the magic that comes with bringing a puppet to life.

During her Jerome@Camargo residency, Wanduragala will be experimenting with her modular synths as sound design for her puppet theater and films as well as exploring the manipulation of puppets herself. (In her previous work, she has always directed others in performing her puppets). She’s excited to see how these two aspects might influence each other.

Photo by Sarah White.

Brooks Turner is an artist, writer, and educator based in Minneapolis. Through diverse methodologies that include archival research, collage, drawing, writing, and installation, Turner engages histories of labor, fascism, and resistance, with a particular focus on the 1934 Truck Drivers Strike in Minneapolis. Solo exhibitions include Voters in Revolt at Hair+Nails, Pedagogy and Propaganda at The Perlman Teaching Museum, and Legends and Myths of Ancient Minnesota at the Weisman Art Museum. Turner was a 2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and a 2024 Visual Artist Grant recipient from the Harpo Foundation. His work has been collected by the Walker Art Center, the Minnesota Historical Society, and the Minnesota Museum of American Art. He is the author of numerous essays published by Labor Art Review, Art Papers, MnArtists, HAIRandNAILS, TEMP, and Headlands Center for the Arts.

At Camargo, Turner will expand his ongoing inquiry into how aesthetic forms circulate ideology by studying histories of fascist collaboration and resistance in Cassis and Marseille during World War II. Alongside this research, Turner will make reflective drawings contemplating the temporal distance since Nazi occupation and the accelerating force of fascism in the United States today.

Photo by Rik Sferra.

Witt Siasoco is a visual artist using public space to catalyze civic dialogue and collective action. For 25 years, he has worked at the intersection of the arts and civic life as a community-based artist, organizer, and educator. His work arises from a belief that art lives everywhere—in neighborhoods, on streets, where people live and work—and is most impactful when created in collaboration with local people and placed and performed in public. His creative process channels person-to-person conversations around community issues into hybrid work that blends painting and drawing, design, sculpture, and/or site-specific installation.

During his time at Camargo, Siasoco will research play in public space, in particular, the formal and informal rules that guide it. His residency will consist of field visits to local plazas, skateparks, and playgrounds; academic research about plaza architecture, civic space, and placemaking; and experiments with technical aspects of printmaking outside of a studio environment.

Photo courtesy of the artist.

Efraín Rozas is a Peruvian interdisciplinary artist, researcher and robotics maker. His work was described as “An incredible physical presence that transformed the stage into a soundscape” by The New York Times, “A heady confluence of technology, culture and cognition” by The New Yorker, and “A deep psychonautic dive” by WIRED Magazine. He is a Jerome Artist Fellow 2023–2025 for combined artistic fields. He was a resident at The Kitchen in 2021. He is recipient of the NY State Council on the Arts/ Wavefarm Media Arts Assistance Fund, Jerome Foundation/Harvestworks New Works Commission, and Knockdown Center (NYC) residency for time-based art. He has performed at Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, Roulette Intermedium, Levitation Festival, Museum of Contemporary art of Lima and Central Park Summerstage Fania Records 50th anniversary. His album Roza Cruz with his Latin American experimental project La Mecánica Popular was named one of the best Latin American albums of the decade by Zona Sucia and Estereofonía. Featured at CNN, BBC, Washington Post, Daily News, and NPR. He holds a PhD from NYU on new integrations of body, mind and technology through ritual and rhythm. He published the book Fusión: a soundtrack for Peru.

During the Jerome@Camargo Residency, Rozas will continue his research into how our relationship with technology has existed since the dawn of human history, and how art has served as a critical space for transforming technology into a means of expanding our notions of the body, the mind, and community.

Photo by Juan Pablo Aragón.

Junauda Petrus is an abolitionist, writer, filmmaker, runaway witch, soul sweetener, and performance artist of Black Trinidadian and Crucian descent, born on Dakota/Anishinaabe homeland (Minneapolis). Her work invokes poetics and experiences re-membered through research, play, and ancestral dreaming to imagine liberated futures shaped by sweetness, healing, and the sacred. Her debut novel, The Stars and The Blackness Between Them, received the Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award. Her children’s book, Can We Please Give The Police Department to the Grandmothers? was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2023. She is the 2025–2026 poet laureate of Minneapolis and a recipient of the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship. She wrote, directed, and co-produced the poetic circus-play There Are Other Worlds. In 2021, she served as librettist for The Cartography Project at the Kennedy Center, writing about Minneapolis and the ancestor George Floyd. As a filmmaker, she directed Sweetness of Wild, a poetic episodic web series and Erotics of Abolition, which she also performed in centering the embodied erotic for Black liberation. Petrus’ work is steeped in abolitionist dreaming, ancestral listening, and Black queer feminist poetics.

For her Camargo residency, Petrus will be researching a body of literary and performance works entitled Erotics of Abolition. She will research how loving her body, nature as medicine, ancestral conversations, queer motherhood, creative resistance, kink as revolutionary self-love, and abolitionist relationship practices are pathways to this decolonial framework. She will be spending a lot of time in creative rituals and practice with her Caribbean ancestors and tapping into their rootedness, their alchemy of land, and how living slower and by the sea is a way to return to the sacred.

Photo by Thais Aquino of Soul Portraits.

Jordan Demetrius Lloyd is a Brooklyn-based dance artist, choreographer, and educator. Originally from Albany, New York, he is a 2025 graduate of the DAS Choreography master’s program in Amsterdam and holds a BFA from The College at Brockport. His choreographic practice moves between refined visuals and imagined realities. He investigates how the social codes of place, identity, and encounter shape movement, perception, and presence. His work guides audiences through sensory worlds where choreographic gestures operate as character, image, and lived memory. Lloyd has collaborated with and performed for artists including Beth Gill, Netta Yerushalmy, Tere O’Connor, David Dorfman Dance, Monica Bill Barnes, Donna Uchizono, Joanna Kotze, and more. His work has been presented by Danspace Project, New York Live Arts, BRIC, ISSUE Project Room, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, BAAD!, Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church, and the Center for Performance Research. His teaching practice has brought him to the American Dance Festival, Montclair State University, Movement Research, University of the Arts, Rutgers University, NYU, Sarah Lawrence College, and the Mark Morris Dance Center.

During his Camargo residency, Lloyd will pursue a period of slow, place-responsive research, combining reading, writing, improvisation, and site-based movement studies in Cassis and Marseille. This project extends a practice-based research trajectory that integrates critical theory and embodied improvisation, positioning choreography as a mode of knowledge production. Through video documentation, daily scores, and reflective writing, he aims to seed future choreographic work grounded in quietude, opacity, and the poetics of environment.

Photo by Thomas Lenden.

Halee Kirkwood’s debut poetry collection, To Think of a Match, is forthcoming with Curbstone Press in March 2027. They were a 2023–2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, an inaugural and returning Indigenous Nations Poets fellow, a Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Individuals grant recipient, and a 2019 Loft Mentor Series Fellow. Kirkwood was the recipient of the 2022 James Welch Poetry Prize for Indigenous Poets, published with Poetry Northwest. Kirkwood is a direct descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe.

During their residency, Kirkwood plans to study the plot and structure of historical fiction novels while considering the long and complex economic relationship between Great Lakes Native nations and France intertwined with the involvement of Native code talkers in the world wars. Kirkwood will also continue their work investigating the cultures, identities, and so-called “vice-zones” of port towns, feeling for similarities and differences between the towns of Provence and their hometown of Superior, Wisconsin.

Photo by Carla Rodriguez at Blkk Hand Photography.

Leslie Barlow is a visual artist, educator, and cultural worker from Minneapolis, MN. Barlow believes art and artmaking is both healing and liberatory, through the power of representation, witnessing and storytelling. Her life-sized oil paintings are inspired by community and personal experiences and often serve as monuments to community members and explorations into how race entangles the intimate sphere of love, family, and friendship. Barlow is a recipient of the 2025 and 2019 McKnight Visual Artist Fellowships, and the 2021–23 Jerome Hill Fellowship. In addition to her studio practice, Barlow is an assistant professor of drawing and painting at the University of Minnesota and supports emerging artists as a part of the Public Functionary team. Barlow is also the founder of ConFluence, a BIPOC arts and science fiction convention, and co-founder of Creatives After Curfew, a mural collective.

During her residency, Barlow looks forward to spending her time in cross-disciplinary exchange with the Camargo community while working on Us, Becoming, a project examining Black cosplay and fandom as a site of world-building, alchemy and embodiment, and collective imagination. She plans to engage with local fandom communities, attend regional multi-fandom events, and conduct archival research to inform an upcoming exhibition.