Artist News: April 2023
Learn more about achievements and recent news from Bakehouse artists including Amalia Caputo, Woosler Delisfort, Sterling Rook, Gonzalo Hernandez, Nicole Maynard-Sahar, Pedro Wazzan, Maria Theresa Barbist, Augusto Esquivel, Diana Espin, and Jason Aponte...
Artist Highlight: Ian Fichman
Meet Ian Fichman, a Bakehouse artist whose practice is mainly comprised of metalwork and illustration. In seeking to defy the familiar, each sculpture he creates is uniquely assembled in an effort to bring new characters to life. Fichman's stylized skeletal figures aim to chronicle his own experiences, in a way that anyone may identify with.
Gabriela Gamboa: New Topographies: 25.7617° N, 80.1918 W°
An essay by Bakehouse Art Complex’s Assistant Director of Programs and Community Engagement, Laura Novoa, on resident artist Gabriela Gamboa’s outdoor, site-specific installation New Topographies: 25.7617° N, 80.1918 W° on view from November 2022 - March 2023.
Job Openings at Bakehouse
Join a creative, fast-moving organization as we begin to plan our future cultural campus. Qualified candidates for a Development Officer and Communications Associate are encouraged to apply now.
Artist Highlight: Mary Ellen Scherl
Meet Mary Ellen Scherl, a Bakehouse artist whose practice has largely been focused on women’s issues. Sculpting in clay, casting in bronze and stainless steel, carving stone, photography, film, installations, and painting are all within her toolbox. The subject of her latest work is an ambitious series of portrait paintings in oil honoring the women of our U.S. Armed Forces.
Donor Highlight: Vania Laguerre
Meet Bakehouse supporter, Vania Laguerre, Local Market Executive with Bank of America. This past year, Bakehouse was among 18 distinguished global institutions to be awarded a Bank of America Charitable Foundation, Art Conservation Project grant which is allowing us to preserve a public mural by the late artist Purvis Young, located on our east-facing façade. Read more about Vania and why she supports Bakehouse!
Joel Gaitan selected first artist laureate for the Bakehouse x Cité internationale des arts residency
Bakehouse Art Complex, Miami, and the Cité internationale des arts, Paris, are pleased to announce the selection of Joel Gaitan as the first Artist Laureate to benefit from a prestigious two-month residency in Paris this upcoming May and June 2023.
Artist News: February 2023
Learn more about achievements and recent news from Bakehouse Art Complex Resident and Associate Artists, including Luján Candria, Andrea Spiridonakos, Clara Toro, Gabriela Gamboa and resident organization Bookleggers Library for the month of February!
Artist Highlight: Joel Gaitan
Meet Joel Gaitan, a Bakehouse artist who explores personal themes of migration, identity, and nostalgia in his reflection on Pre-Columbian ceramic traditions in Central America. With Joel’s modern take, he’s able to create a space for storytelling that holds energies, messages, secrets, and attitudes unique to his experiences and artistic practice.
Donor Highlight: Adam Koffler
Meet Adam Koffler, an active member of the Bakehouse Board since 2019. Adam has lent his expertise in philanthropy and real-estate development to the thinking and planning around a future Bakehouse campus. We caught up with Adam to discuss his thoughts on Bakehouse at present and into the future!
Watch: Bank of America and Bakehouse Preserve a Mural by Purvis Young
Watch a video on a recent restoration project of a major outdoor mural by the late Miami artist Purvis Young. This project was funded by the Bank of America Charitable Foundation.
Artist News: January 2023
Learn more about achievements and recent news from Bakehouse Art Complex Resident and Associate Artists during the month of January, including Sandra Ramos, Jenna Efrein, Gabriela Gamboa, Maria Theresa Barbist, Shawna Moulton, and multiple recipients of the Home+Away Travel Residency by Oolite Arts.
Introducing New Board Member Rodolphe el-Khoury
Read more about Bakehouse’s newest Board Member, Rodolphe “Rudy” el-Khoury, the Dean of the University of Miami’s School of Architecture. Rudy is an eminent scholar and expert on smart design and architecture who believes that “embedded technology empowers networked environments to better address the environmental and social challenges we face today.”
Donor Highlight: Tatyana Silva
Meet Tatyana Silva, a friend and supporter of Bakehouse Art Complex. Tatyana is a passionate art collector with a focus on Radical Italian Design and Arte Povera. We caught up with Tatyana to discuss her “eye-opening” introduction to our artist community,
New Staff at Bakehouse: Shawn Clybor, Chief Technology Strategist and Planner
Bakehouse is excited to announce that Dr. Shawn Clybor has joined our team as the Chief Technology Strategist and Planner. Shawn will lead with strategies intended to physically and programmatically transform Bakehouse over the next five years as a center for art making and art presentation in the digital age.
Artist Highlight: Augusto Esquivel
Meet Augusto Esquivel, an artist at Bakehouse Art Complex who repurposes readily-available shank and sewing buttons to create three-dimensional sculptures.
Donor Highlight: Board Member Claudio Riedi
Meet Swiss-American Board Member Claudio Riedi, a lifelong lover of “landscaping, photography, and landscape photography” and ardent supporter of Bakehouse Art Complex and its artists since 2016.
Artist News: December 2022
Learn more about Bakehouse Art Complex Resident and Associate Artists’ achievements, including exhibitions and installations by Jennifer Printz, Gonzalo Hernandez, and Tara Long, and recent news during Miami Art Week and December 2022.
Artist Highlight: Gabriela Gamboa
On the occasion of her new exhibition, “New Topographies: 25.7617° N, 80.1918 W°” at Bakehouse, we sat down with artist Gabriela Gamboa to discuss her artistic practice and how Bakehouse helped her grow roots in Miami.
Applications are open for Bakehouse x Cité internationale des arts Residency!
Applications are open through December 19, 2022 to Bakehouse artists for a two-month residency (May 4–June 7, 2023) at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, France.