The Bakery Photo Collective is excited to announce our new Community Fellowship program. Our 2026-2027 fellowships are sponsored by our partners at Maine Photo Works and Maine Studio Works. 

The Maine Studio Works Fellowship and Maine Photo Works Fellowship are intended to support individuals with a wide variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and ways of approaching photography and lens-based craft. The program will support individuals who self-identify as benefiting from the elimination of some of the financial barriers to facility access and exhibition opportunities.

Applications are now closed for the 2026-2027 fellowship. Please check back in January 2027 when applications open again.

Bakery Community Fellowships

Information

  • This fellowship is designed to expand access to studio facilities and exhibition opportunities, especially for artists facing financial or systemic barriers. Artists who identify as BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, or who are at a pivotal or experimental moment in their practice are strongly encouraged to apply.

    • Fellows will receive studio access - core membership privileges for a year

    • Fellows will have their work in a two-person exhibition (with other fellow) at SpectacleBox Space

    • Fellows are responsible for travel costs and material expenses

    • Artist must donate (1) framed print for Photo A-GoGo 2026, our yearly fundraiser

    • Artist is expected to attend monthly member meetings (3rd Wednesday of each month)

    • Photographers or lens-based artists ready to deepen your practice and take a meaningful step forward

    • Artists who are looking to take a risk in their practice, develop as an artist, are at a critical moment in their career, or identify as BIPOC or LGBTQIA+ are encouraged to apply

    • must be 18 years or older

    • must reside within a ~75 mile radius of the Bakery Photo Collective

    • Enrolled students in an undergraduate or graduate residential program

    • Cannot have held any previous membership, internship, or volunteer position at the Bakery

    • 10-20 image portfolio

    • An artist bio

    • A statement about the work (250 words, max)

    • A statement (500 words, max) explaining:

      • How you intend to use the Bakery’s studio facilities

      • Why you need access

    • Two references (and describe the relationship to applicant)

Our Jurors for 2026-2027

  • Rosalba Breazeale


    Rosalba Breazeale (they/them, b. 1989) is an artist, educator and studio director at 205 Ocean Ave studios based on the traditional lands of the Wabanaki Confederacy, so-called Portland, ME. They hold an MFA from the University of New Mexico and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Their multidisciplinary art practice encompasses analog, digital and alternative process photography, soft fiber sculpture and installation with an emphasis on regenerative practice. Breazeale’s identity as a Queer, Jewish, transnational adoptee from Peru forms the foundation from which they create work addressing connection to land, diasporic experience, European colonization and related environmental issues.

    Their work has been exhibited across the United States and internationally including Transmutation with the London Alternative Photography Collective in England, their solo exhibition, Poems from Kay Pacha at Parsonage Gallery in Searsport, Maine and most recently, with Koslov Larsen gallery in Houston, TX. Breazeale created a photographic topics class on sustainable photographic processes at the University of New Mexico and has been published in the Sustainable Darkroom’s publication, Re Source. They received Shared.Futures and David C. Driskell fellowships in 2023, attended the Hewnoaks residency in 2024 and recently gave an artist talk with scientist and collaborator, Jessica Begay, at the 2025 Society for Photographic Education annual conference on their SciArt collaboration, 500 Unheard Legacies. Breazeale currently has work on view at the Maine Jewish Museum and will be exhibiting at the Halide Project, Strata Gallery and Space Window Gallery over the next few months.

  • Michael N. Meyer

    Michael N. Meyer stretches, tweaks and bends the base functioning of his creative tools to examine the ways in which the design and use of devices, platforms, and processes of technological observation affect and feedback within the social structures in which they operate. Though abstract in form, his work originates out of an attentiveness to the concrete impacts imaging systems have on our shared social, political, and cultural experiences. He is a 2023 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Digital/Electronic Art from NYFA. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States as well as in Europe and Asia, most recently at Specular Highlights Gallery, CONTACT Gallery, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Ryniker Morrison Gallery, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Lichtundfire, treat gallery, Soft Machine Gallery, Klompching Gallery, Datz Museum, _Floor, Well Well Projects and the /’Fu:bar/ Glitch Art Festival. In 2021 he participated in the Experimental Media Residency program at the Institute for Electronic Arts. Alongside his own projects, Michael is a co-founder of Spectacle Box, a curatorial and publishing collective; a keen collector of Korean photography books; a corporate portrait photographer; and an adjunct professor at LIM College. He received a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and daughter.