Call for Applications: Artists Residency in Cassis, France

The Camargo Foundation, located in Cassis, France and founded by artist and philanthropist Jerome Hill, is a residential center offering programming in the humanities and the arts.  It offers time and space in a contemplative environment to think, create, and connect. The Foundation encourages the visionary work of scholars, artists, and leading thinkers in the arts and humanities.

Established more than 40 years ago by Jerome Hill, the Camargo Foundation has always welcomed artists and scholars. Today, the Foundation receives artists and scholars of any nationality to work on specific projects or research areas alone or collectively.

Located in a small town of South of France, facing the Mediterranean sea, the Foundation is the perfect environment to reflect and create. It benefits from the quietness and high quality of the environment and surrounding nature (Cap Canaille, Calanques national park), and at the same time is within 45 minutes’ drive of Marseille, France’s 2nd city, Aix-en-Provence and Arles which are major centers for arts, culture and research. 

For the core Fellowship program the Foundation offers four to eleven week residential fellowships to :

• ·        Scholars working in French and Francophone cultures, including cross-cultural    studies that engage the cultures and influences of the Mediterranean region;
• ·        Artists, in all disciplines, who are the primary creators of new work; and
• ·        Leading thinkers in the arts and humanities

Regular Project Discussions are organized in which each Fellow’s work is presented and discussed.  The rest of the time is fully dedicated to each Fellow’s own work on site.

Fellows are provided with accommodation in private apartments with kitchens on the Foundation’s campus facing the sea and the Port of Cassis. A stipend of 600US$ per month is available, as is coverage of basic travel expenses to and from Cassis. Spouses and children over six are welcome, children must be enrolled in and attending school or off-campus activities.

Applications are now welcome for Fellowships in Fall 2015 (eight weeks from September 1 to October 26) and Spring 2016 (applicants may choose four, eight or eleven weeks from January 27).  Applicants of any nationality are encouraged to apply although all applicants must be fluent in English.

For more information and a link to the online application form, please visit www.camargofoundation.org/toapply.asp