Dear Friends, Supporters, and Community Members,
At Bakehouse Art Complex, we know that great things happen when people rally. This season, we’re celebrating that spirit with Homecoming, our annual fundraiser inspired by school dances, pep rallies, and the joy of coming together. We’ll also debut Homegrown, a new exhibition celebrating the creativity taking root in our community. But the spirit of Homecoming doesn’t end when the music stops. It’s something we carry forward—that’s where you come in.
On November 19, Bakehouse will be participating in Give Miami Day, and we’re inviting you to officially join our Home Team! Whether you’ve been part of the Bakehouse family for years or just discovered us, you can make sure emerging artists in Miami have the space, resources, and support they need to keep creativity in play.
HOW TO JOIN THE TEAM
Tell Us What Day You'll Give:
Early Giving - Saturday November 14 through Wednesday November 18
Give Miami Day - Thursday, November 19
Spread The Word Online:
Share our Give Miami Day page - https://www.givemiamiday.org/organization/bakehouseartcomplex
Subscribe and Share our Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bakehouseartcomplex
Run For Us:
Register for the Give Miami Day 5k - https://runsignup.com/Race/FL/Miami/givemiami5k
(You can choose to have your registration payment be a donation to Bakehouse!)
Every gift supports our organization's capacity for programming, artist studio subsidies, building development, and growing our staff team. So rally your friends and get ready to make some noise for the place that over 150 Miami artists call home!
Your teammates,
Cathy, Kandy, Terese, Phil, Christine, Krys, Rene, and Oscar
To eliminate economic pressures facing Miami’s creative professionals, and, acting as cross-pollination architects, dismantling silos, fostering collaboration, and building bridges across disciplines. We aim to ignite an ecosystem where artistic, intellectual, and civic capital fuse, losing their individual boundaries to create something totally new. A cultural compound where culture compounds.
Bakehouse is Miami’s cultural compound. Founded in 1986 in a former industrial bakery, we celebrate two milestones—our 40th anniversary and the centennial of our 1926 building, originally home to the American Bakeries Company. As one of South Florida’s largest and longest-standing nonprofit artist-serving communities, Bakehouse has been a vital incubator for creative talent, interdisciplinary collaboration, and cultural dialogue.
Over the past eight years and building on our founders’ vision, we have laid the groundwork to undertake a major transformation to meet the needs of 21st-century creative practices and audiences. Now, as we celebrate these anniversaries, we begin our campaign to fund the future, where Miami’s cultural capital rises.
Our vision: As cultural alchemists, we engineer conditions where artistic creativity, intellectual rigor, and civic innovation become something new. Not mixing. Not blending. FUSION.
Our mission: To eliminate economic pressures facing Miami’s creative professionals, and, acting as cross-pollination architects, dismantling silos, fostering collaboration, and building bridges across disciplines. We aim to ignite an ecosystem where artistic, intellectual, and civic capital fuse, losing their individual boundaries to create something totally new. A cultural compound where culture compounds.
Today, Bakehouse is home to a dynamic community of over 100 artists deriving from diverse backgrounds and working across a wide spectrum of media. Here artists refine their craft, collaborate with peers and institutions near and far, and share their work and practice with the public.
Our future campus masterplan, conceived in collaboration with Michael Maltzan Architecture, includes the renovation of this iconic 1926 building and the transformation of our 2.6-acre campus as a cultural compound. It imagines a four-acre live-work-play campus that includes affordable housing, new community and cultural spaces, and open green spaces.
As we commemorate these anniversaries, we invite you to help shape the next century of Bakehouse. We depend on and are grateful to our many supporters on this Give Miami Day who enable us to attract, retain, and develop talent.
Organization name
Bakehouse Art Complex
Tax id (EIN)
59-2104864
Mission Category
Arts & Culture
Program Site Locations
All of Miami-Dade County, Miami: All Communities
Annual Operating Budget
$1,000,000 - $2,499,999
Primary Population Served
General Population, Other
Address
561 NW 32 St