The Elyssa project is an initiative of the French Institute of Tunisia supported by the Team France Fund. It provides an opportunity for artists based in Tunisia to express their creativity while benefiting from structured professional support.
is the director of the Camargo Foundation, where she started in 2014 as program director. The Camargo Foundation, established in the late 1960s by Jerome Hill, an American artist and philanthropist, is a residency center for artists, researchers, and thinkers from all nationalities and disciplines. Before joining the Foundation, Julie played a key role in organizing “Marseille Provence 2013, European Capital of Culture” from 2007 to 2013 as international project manager. Previously, she worked in the music industry for eight years in Beijing, spent three years in Phnom Penh with UNESCO, and later worked for two years in Washington, D.C., at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and as a Rockefeller Research Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.