Leslie Parker is a dance artist, director, improviser, educator, and performer born in the traditional homeland of the Dakhóta people also known as Twin Cities, MN. Her multiple home/art-bases mainly include the lands of the Lenape peoples (Brooklyn, NY), and Saint Paul, MN. Leslie holds a BFA from Esther Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University and an MFA in Dance from Hollins University in partnership with the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, The Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts, and The Dresden Frankfurt Company in Frankfurt, Germany. As a dance creative, Leslie highlights unique individual contributions, digs into collective memory to engage with the world more imaginatively, and embodies an aesthetic that encompasses an organic form influenced by the Black and African Diaspora: Traditional West African, Black/African American vernacular/social dance, Improvisation, and Contemporary/Modern techniques derived from multiple continents. She received a 2017 Bessie award for Outstanding performer, a 2022 McKnight Fellowship for Choreographers, and a 2021 NDP Production grant. Leslie received a 2019-2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in dance. For more details, go to www.leslieparkerdance.com.

While at Camargo, Leslie will explore more deeply the practice of Black Dance Improvisation. As an opportunity to participate in a collective of international artists specializing in various forms of art and whose lived experiences reflect multicultural lives, her practice will include workshops stemming from collective learning to cultivate generative processes inspired by personal narratives. Leslie’s exploration prioritizes the futurity of Blackness and dance through collective remembrance as an embodied experience.

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Modesto “Flako” Jimenez is a Dominican-born, Bushwick-raised, multi-hyphenate artist. His work exists in and explores the intersections of identity, language, mediums, cultures, and communities in his personal life and beyond. Flako’s recent work includes Taxilandia, a multifaceted Bushwick community tour and poetic performance experienced from the back of a taxi cab. This work received a New York Times’ Critics Pick in 2021. Flako is the founder of ¡Oye! Group, a nonprofit that serves as an incubator for artists both native and immigrant to New York City. Flako has been selected as a Princeton Hodder Fellow for 2023-2024 and received a 2021 Foundation for Contemporary Arts award in performing arts and theater. He is currently working on Mercedes, a multi-disciplinary art experience exploring the relationships between matriarchy and ancestors, familial bonds and inherited trauma, and how our identity can impact our mental health. Flako received a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in theater.

During this residency, Flako plans to explore local stories from immigrants of different ages and generations in the Aix-Marseille-Provence area, expanding his understanding of immigrant experiences and collecting new stories on this area’s unique cultural diversity. While his work has explored the Caribbean and Latin American immigrant experience in the United States, he is interested in gaining first-hand knowledge of migrant experiences in a European context. He hopes to find points of connection that broaden the scope of his work and contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the interconnectedness of immigrant experiences.

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Hasabie Kidanu is a visual artist working in printmaking and film animation. Her films have been screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, MONO NO AWARE, Jan Van Eyck Akademie, and Film Madrid. She is one-fourth of Digital Ancestors: an independent publishing co-operative based in Brooklyn, New York, and is currently a lecturer of printmaking at the Yale School of Art. Hasabie received a 2019-2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in visual arts.

During her time at Camargo, Hasabie will develop her new work Prince Ruspoli’s Turaco, an experimental animation set in 1893 within the sub-tropics of eastern Ethiopia. The protagonist, an endangered Turaco bird, tells the tale of its impending extinction while contemplating the relationship between colonial exploration, habitat loss, and diversity. Hasabie plans to spend time in the Calanques National Park and the Museum of African, Oceanic and American Indian Art, studying, meditating, obsessing, and drawing the anatomy and behavior of birds along with flora and plant-life to further the detailed observation practices that fuel her work as an animator.

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Joua Lee Grande is a filmmaker and community connector with a deep commitment to elevating underrepresented voices. Her work has been featured on WORLD Channel, PBS Digital, CAAMFest, and in the PBS Short Film Festival. Her short film On All Fronts received an Honorable Mention from CAAMFest's Loni Ding Award for Social Justice Documentary, is part of a series that won a Silver Anthem Award and received a Daytime Emmy nomination. Joua was a True/False Confluence Fellow (2023), a PBS Accelerator Fellow (2023), a MediaJustice Network Fellow (2021), and a Diverse Voices in Docs Fellow (2019). She was a news editor at WCCO TV 4 News and has over a decade of experience working in nonprofits. She has also led media education programs in the Twin Cities, supporting underrepresented community members to tell their own stories. Joua’s work reflects her passion for storytelling and her strong commitment to social justice. Joua received a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in film, video and digital production.

During her residency, Joua will develop new works and connect with a Hmong French community in southern France. Building relationships with the Hmong French and learning their unique refugee experience will inform the development of a potential new work exploring the community's spread from Lao mountainsides to cities across the globe.

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Carson Faust is the debut author of When the Living Haunt the Dead (Viking, 2025). He is two-spirit, and an enrolled member of the Edisto Natchez-Kusso Tribe of South Carolina. Previously, he received artist fellowships from Jerome Foundation and the McKnight Foundation. His fiction has appeared in TriQuarterly, Passages North, ANMLY, and Waxwing Magazine, among other journals, and has been anthologized in Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Vintage, 2023). Carson received a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in literature.

During his residency, Carson will research French colonial violence in the 1700s, which displaced the Natchez (Nv’ce) people—forcing some of them to leave their homelands in present-day Mississippi and seek refuge in present-day South Carolina—within the context of his second, in-progress horror novel that delves into themes of invasion, extraction, and the simultaneous appropriation and erasure of Native culture.

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Ama Codjoe is the author of Bluest Nude (Milkweed Editions, 2022), winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and finalist for both the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Poetry and the Paterson Poetry Prize; and author of Blood of the Air (Northwestern University Press, 2020), winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. She has been awarded support from Bogliasco, Cave Canem, Robert Rauschenberg, and Saltonstall Foundations, as well as Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Hedgebrook, Yaddo, Hawthornden, MacDowell, and the Amy Clampitt Residency. Among other honors, Ama has received fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bronx Council on the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts. Ama was the 2023 Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum and is the winner of a 2023 Whiting Award. She received a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in literature.

During her Camargo residency, Ama will write poems toward a future full-length collection. She looks forward to spending time in a community composed of international artists that value cross-disciplinary exchange and craves the kinds of articulations, offerings, and dialogues made possible by a residency environment like Camargo.

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Gamin is a distinguished soloist who tours the world performing both traditional Korean music and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Gamin plays three traditional wind instruments, and is a designated Yisuja, official holder of Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46 for Court and Royal Military music. Re-inventing new sonorities from ancient, somewhat restrictive, musical systems, Gamin has received several cultural exchange program grants from Asian Cultural Council, Ministry of Culture, and Republic of Korea. Gamin has collaborated in cross-cultural improvisation with world-acclaimed musicians presenting premieres at Roulette Theater, New School, and Metropolitan Museum. Gamin was a featured artist at the Silkroad concert, Seoul, 2018, performing on-stage with Yo-Yo Ma. Gamin’s scheduled Carnegie Hall début as featured soloist with the Nangye Gugak Orchestra was postponed due to COVID-19. She received a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in music.

During her residency, Gamin is excited by the opportunity to engage with an international community of artists and the inspiration of the unique environment at Cassis. She will work on a new composition focused on developing and extending repertoire based on sanjo tradition, a form of improvised multi-movement solo genre.

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Anthony Banua-Simon is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and editor named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 2021 "25 New Faces of Independent Film" and DOC NYC's 2022 "40 Under 40." His debut feature documentary, Cane Fire, played at the 2020 Hot Docs Film Festival as well as the 2021 MoMA Doc Fortnight and won Best Documentary Feature at the 2020 Indie Memphis Film Festival and the 2021 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Cane Fire was distributed theatrically by Cinema Guild and is available to stream on The Criterion Channel. The film has received praise in RogerEbert.com, Jacobin, Film Threat, and Hyperallergic, among several other outlets. His short documentary about two former workers of the Domino Sugar Refinery, Third Shift, won “Best Short Documentary” at the 2014 Brooklyn Film Festival and previously streamed on The Criterion Channel. Anthony has been featured in The New York Times, BOMB Magazine, Screen Slate, and HuffPost.

After more than a century of industrial farming and testing of harmful pesticides from both the sugar and biotech industries on the Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi, feature documentary The Experiment Station looks towards a growing food sovereignty movement led by Native Hawaiians and how it contends with Hawaii’s legacy of colonialism and extractive capitalism. What was once considered an impossibility in restructuring Hawaii’s economy has now become an ecological necessity for survival.

Dominique Nieves is a disabled Nuyorican filmmaker. She was named a BAFTA Breakthrough Writer-Director for her Telly Award-winning magic realism film, Our Lady Lupe, which was produced in association with PBS for their Primetime Broadcast Special, The Latino Experience. She used Our Lady Lupe to feature her favorite things: Latina leads, brujería, and a dog.

Nieves entered the industry as an actress, but one-dimensional roles for Latinas led her to found Iron Glove Productions, highlighting underrepresented voices authentically on-screen. Her work has garnered recognition from CINEQUEST, HollyShorts, and screened throughout the United States. She has been recognized as a Telemundo Unstoppable Woman and was recently honored by Columbia University’s Lion Pride, celebrating her as an outstanding alumnus who uses her artistic work to uplift her community. As an ardent supporter of Latinx voices, Dominique created the Read Latinx Writers Initiative, pairing over 450 emerging Latinx writers with mentors.

Revolve is a narrative film centering Zaya, a disabled Afro-Latina teen who takes on the intersection of gun violence and gentrification in her Washington Heights neighborhood through artistic advocacy. In an attempt to take control of saying goodbye to her first love, she takes him to her art studio hidden in her uncle’s Botánica. She scoffs at Santería, but a close encounter with gun violence may soon make her a believer. Zaya is distinct from other superheroes because she doesn’t look like one; not because she’s a girl, or Afro-Latina, or using a wheelchair, but because she’s not green, or gigantic, or covered in armor.

photo credit: David Noles