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Leila Bordreuil is a French American cellist, composer, sound artist, and community organizer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her music accesses concepts from free jazz, contemporary classical, noise music, and other experimental traditions but adheres to no single genre. Driven by a fierce interest in resonance, pure sound, and inherent texture, Leila challenges conventional instrument practice through extreme extended techniques and amplification methods. Her compositions frequently incorporate sound-spatialization by way of site-specific pieces and multichannel installations. Leila’s body of work has grown from and is embedded in New York’s underground music scene. When she is not performing, she is a dedicated community organizer, programmer, producer, and sound engineer in New York’s DIY music scene. Leila’s work has been showcased internationally, including at The Whitney Museum, MoMA PS1, Lincoln Center, The Kitchen, Issue Project Room, Barbican (London), Berlin Atonal, Art Basel (Switzerland), Le Guess Who (Utrecht), Bozar Museum (Brussels) and countless DIY basements across the USA and Europe. Leila received a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in music.

At Camargo, Leila will be researching the physics, philosophy, aesthetics, and spirituality of “resonance,” in tandem with her practice of feedback and site-specific composition. She will be working with Marseille-based neuroscientists to study the perception of resonance and investigate the “acoustic archeology” of three medieval Cistercian abbeys in the Provence region.

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.

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.

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.

Prince Harvey is a NYC based artist, musician, and producer most famously known for recording his first album in an Apple Store. He spent most of his childhood on the tiny island of Dominica where he started writing songs at the age of eight, influenced by late 90s rappers. Since his family’s move to New York when he was 14, he has been praised by both mainstream and underground audiences for his alternative hip-hop compositions and productions. In 2017, he released an EP, Golden Child, followed by STAY BOLD: 100 DAYS 100 SONGS, premiering a new song every day for 100 days as a protest against Trump. In 2018, Prince Harvey was an artist in residence at Harvest Works and a commissioned artist at The Shed, where he began work on a new music album and series of short films. He received a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in music.

Upon the release of his first album, PHATASS, he was mentioned by major music and news publications. Prince Harvey's music has been featured in The New York Times, Noisey, Billboard, VICE, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, The Fader, and Afropunk, among many others.

Prince Harvey will use this residency at Camargo to further explore intersecting French and English dialects, searching for fluid ways to the infuse his work with Dominican Patois and Creole language expressions passed on to him through his upbringing in Dominica (a now post-colonial island once occupied first by France and then by Great Britain), using his art as a bridge between these multiplicities of thought, understanding, and history.

Su Hwang (she/her/hers) is a poet, activist, stargazer, and the author of Bodega (Milkweed Editions), which received the 2020 Minnesota Book Award in poetry and was named a finalist for the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Born in Seoul, Korea, she was raised first in New York and then called the Bay Area home before transplanting to the Midwest. She works with the Minnesota Prison Writing workshop and is cofounder of Poetry Asylum, with poet Sun Yung Shin. Su received a 2019-2021 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in literature.

During the Camargo residency, Su will complete her second poetry collection titled ARKS. She will also conduct research for a new experimental, hybrid text, Invasive Me. Fusing personal essay, memoir, and prose poetry, this work reflects on how various flora and fauna—like the Spotted Lantern Fly and Emerald Ash Borer—have impacted the places she’s called home, and how through certain language and positionality, human beings are invariably juxtaposed, classified, and othered as “invasive.” In and around Cassis, she will examine the effects of blue crabs that are reportedly wreaking havoc along the French Mediterranean.