Maine Studio Works + Maine Photo Works Community Fellowships

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.

Recognizing obstacles and implicit bias faced by contemporary artists, individuals 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.

Fellowship recipients are responsible for travel costs and material expenses. Award recipients must be 18 years of age or older and must reside within a ~75 mile radius of the Bakery Photo Collective. In an effort to encourage art outside traditional academia, we will also be excluding people currently attending an undergraduate or graduate residential program. Additionally, only those who have not previously been a member of the Bakery Photo Collective (including interns and volunteers), will be considered. The Bakery Photo Collective has assembled an independent committee to select fellowship recipients through a competitive review process. 

Applications open January 5th, and close January 31st. Link to application form here (and after terms and conditions).

Fellowships will be announced the first week of March, and will run March 15th 2026-March 14th 2027

Submission Guidelines and Qualifications:

Submission Guidelines:

  • 10-20 image portfolio

  • An artist bio

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

  • A statement explaining:

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

    • Why you need access (500 words, max)

  • Two references (and describe the relationship to applicant)

Rules:

  1. Applicant must be at least 18 years old

  2. Applicant cannot be attending a residential undergraduate or graduate program during the fellowship.

  3. Applicant cannot have previously been a member of the Bakery Photo Collective (including interns and volunteers)

  4. Applicant must reside within a ~75 mile radius of the Bakery Photo Collective

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

  6. Artist will participate in a two-person show (with other fellow) at SpectacleBox Space in the summer of 2026

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

Bakery Community Fellowships:

Apply Here!

Our Jurors:

  • 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.