Our Vision: Unleash the creative potential of Miami.

Our Mission: Build and cultivate an ecosystem that fosters creativity, encourages collaboration, and continues to elevate Miami as a global center of innovation and cultural production.

Bakehouse Art Complex addresses a significant gap in the city’s cultural ecosystem: affordable studios and future living spaces where artists create and engage with each other and the greater community.

Artists need spaces now more than ever, and Bakehouse has the potential to leverage its land holdings in a way that will attract, retain, and develop Miami-grown talent.

Over the past five years, the Bakehouse Board of Directors has taken initial steps to lay the groundwork for transforming our vision into a path forward. Our goal is to transform the organization, physically and programmatically, so we can transform others.

We are building on our founders’ vision to ensure affordability for artists.

We aim to become a more critical node, or hub, in Miami’s arts and cultural ecosystem for all types of critical conversations and encounters that demonstrate the value and transformative power of artists and the arts.

Our Beliefs:

Thriving cultural communities must ensure living and workspace security for artists.

Strong partnerships and collaborations foster learning, growing, and impact.

We do not operate in silos.

We should know and be good neighbors.

Artist-serving institutions anchor communities.

Multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary practices drive innovation and creativity.

Creative hubs should foster environments where diverse perspectives safely converge, collide, and interact.

We aim to create transformative (not just transactional) relationships that result when we become active agents of change, engage communities, and develop socially impactful practices.

Diverse perspectives and provocative ideas foster creativity and innovation.

Flexibility and adaptability in our rapidly changing world builds resilience and continued success.

We commit to work that matters.

Our Commitment to Diversity:

Bakehouse Art Complex is committed to diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion. We do not tolerate hate or discrimination of any kind against race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or disability. We do our work with humility, transparency, and assertiveness; we constantly seek improvement.

We define diversity in its broadest sense including, but not limited to, race, nationality, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, social class, physical ability, religion, and political beliefs. We also recognize that there is further nuanced diversity amongst all of these categories within the specific context of Miami.  We will always strive to better serve the changing demographics of Miami-Dade County.