Perfectly Pitched

Thrilled to Partner with BCAN’s Scale Your Passion Fellowship

by | Oct 26, 2022 | Announcements, Baltimore, MD, Incubators, Partners, Perfectly Pitched | 0 comments

Perfectly Pitched is proud to support the Baltimore Creatives Acceleration Network's Scale Your Passion 2022 Fellowship! Learn more at www.BaltimoreCreates.org

Everyone on Team Perfectly Pitched is thrilled to announce that we’ve partnered with Baltimore Creatives Acceleration Network’s Scale Your Passion 2022 Fellowship program! BCAN supports Baltimore’s best up & coming artists & creative entrepreneurs of all disciplines and backgrounds city-wide. By promoting the economic empowerment of our city’s creative entrepreneurs, BCAN aims to foster a stronger, more equitable creative ecosystem and economy in Baltimore.

Perfectly Pitched has been providing educational workshops, pitching resources, and supportive practice sessions, helping each fellow to hone their overall business storytelling strategy & perfect their pitch in preparation for Showcase Day! We’ve been working with the fellows for the past several weeks, each and every one of whom are inspiring leaders in their own right. They work across a wide array of industries, from fashion to food, events to tech, photography to graphic novels, and everything in between. We’d love to take some time to introduce you to these remarkable creatives & their innovative work! Please check them out, give them a follow on their socials, and support these exciting Baltimore creatives!

Promotional Images for BCAN SYP Fellow Blk Ass Flea Mkt, showing their logo in beautiful cursive script, on top of an image of a smiling, happy woman, looking at the camera, with flea market tents in the background behind her. She's wearing a beige hair wrap turban, white retro cat-eye sunglasses, a white button down shirt, and bright red lipstick.

Blk Ass Flea Mkt

Bri Mobley, Co-Founder

Sola Ekunseitan, Co-Founder

BlkAssFleaMkt.com

Blk Ass Flea Mkt was created for BLK artists, creatives + business owners to prioritize, encourage + sustain BLK buying power + BLK business equity through its MKTplaces + events. “Keepin’ the coin in the community!”

BrickRose Exchange Founder Bianca J. Jackson

BrickRose Exchange

Bianca J. Jackson, Owner & Founder

BrickRoseExchange.org

BrickRose Exchange is a unique meeting space born from love and appreciation for connecting people. They offer intimate events for your guests both in-person or in the Metaverse. 

Currency Studio

Currency Studio

Michael Haskins Jr, Founder

CurrencyStudio.us

Currency Studio is a Baltimore-based creative studio founded in 2017 by Michael Haskins Jr and Erica Lee Page. Haskins began CURRENCY in 2007 as a line of clothing. At its core, Currency Studio is the house for all currency branded products. The practices that Haskins & page incorporate are painting, silkscreen printing, drafting, and designing.

The logo & a promotional image from The Empanada Lady, home of the best Afro-Latinx fusion cuisine and experience in Baltimore, MD!

The Empanda Lady

Elisa Milan, Founder

TheEmpanadaLady.shop

The Empanada Lady is a premier and authentic Puerto Rican restaurant located at Motorhouse Baltimore in the heart of our city. Our mission has been to provide high-quality food for all those that wish to combine fun and enjoyable ambiance with skillful cooking into one extraordinary dining experience. 

The Grl Pwr logo, alongside a photograph of co-founders Amy Reid & Pangelica

Grl Pwr

Amy Reid, Co-Founder

Pangelica, Co-Founder

GrlPwr.me

GRL PWR is a collaborative partnership between two Baltimore-based musicians, Amy Reid & Pangelica Hall. Our mission is to transform Baltimore’s cultural landscape through the elevation of LGBTQIA+ artists. Our work nurtures an influential yet overlooked local culture through event curation and community-focused programming.

Logo & promotional image from Habesha Flavor. In the photo, you can see Founder, Chef Micknai Arefaine, smiling at the viewer, standing in front of a leafy green background. Her fabulously curly dark hair is in a joyful poof on her head, with her bright eyes lined in teal eyeshadow, and her bright wide smile framed by deep red lipstick.

Habesha Flavor

Micknai Arefaine, Founder

@HabeshaFlav0r

Chef Micknai Arefaine brings the fusion stylings of Ethiopian cuisine to Habesha Flavor! Arefaine began joyfully sharing food with friends and neighbors, preparing the simple Ethiopian dishes that are a part of her life. “People just loved the food and they wanted more of it. It was like something from my heart and it was very healing.” Everything served at Habesha Flavor is dairy free, gluten free, corn free, and nut free. 

Promotional photographs from the IHenry Photo Project. Photos show Founder, Webster Phillips III, seated on a stool, facing the camera, with a bright spotlight illuminating him and casting his shadow against a backdrop behind him. He's holding a print of photographs by his Father, Irving Phillips, who's pictured in a bubble in the lower left. He's wearing a flat cap, black retro square-framed glasses, and has a lit cigarette dangling from his mouth. He's inside a photographer's studio, wearing a white shirt and dark colored vest, looking intently at the viewer.

I. Henry Photo Project

Webster Phillips III, Founder

IHenryPhoto.com

Mr. Irving Phillips, Sr. illustrated life in the Baltimore community, telling stories about people of celebrity and the joys and tribulations of the working class. His work includes tens of thousands of images, documenting the history of Baltimore, as well as the nation at-large. Founded by his son, Webster Phillips III, the I. Henry Photo Project focuses on identifying unknown people and places in Mr. Phillips work, in an effort to preserve the history & tell the stories of Baltimore.

Logo & promotional image from J.P. Jackson Art, animation & illustration. The photo shows J.P. seated at a booth at a convention, surrounded by prints & graphic novels of his work. He's smiling & looking at the camera, wearing a black shirt with his logo on it, and is holding up some of his artwork to show the viewer.

JP Jackson Art

Jordan Jackson, Founder

JPJacksonArt.com

Jordan P. Jackson is an interdisciplinary artist, comic book writer, animator, and graphic designer based in Baltimore, Maryland. JP Jackson Art is a production company that empowers intersectional storytelling through comics and animation. Born from the necessity to empower black artists and storytellers, we elevate black stories and bring cinematic quality to the comic experience.

Logo & promotional image for Visionary Live Studio, showing a very artistic, fashion-style portrait of founder, Akilah McCrorey. Her eyes are closed & her head is tiled up toward the right, capturing the light on her face, which is framed beautifully by her large spherical afro. She's wearing an off-the-shoulder dress, with large gold hoop earrings, and has deep red lipstick on. All together she is looking fabulous!

Visionary Live Studios

Akilah McCrorey, Founder

@VisionaryLiveStudios

Akilah Divine is a multi-disciplinary artist; singer, spoken word artist, rapper, and actress who was born and raised in Baltimore, MD. She graduated from Delaware State University earning her master’s degree in Social Work (MSW), and two Bachelor of Science Degrees: Social Work and Mass Communications. Visionary Live Studios supports artists & events in Baltimore, MD. 

Yele Stitches Logo & promotional images featuring founder, Yele Oladeinde. Yele is posing against a fence by a waterfront, looking off to the right, her fingers gently placed against her chin. She's wearing a bright & colorful statement necklace over a white blouse, and a colorful printed skirt.

Yele Stitches

Yele Oladeinde, Founder

YeleStitches.com

At Yele Stitches, we use the wealth of Cultural diversity to come up with ingenious designs that speak to the World’s unity. Our patterns, creatives, and styles are a blend of African and western culture. We break the walls of differences helping our customers around the world to express their unique lifestyle through fashion and design.

Thank you!

Our deepest gratitude to Sharayna, Maggie, Jas, Krystle, and everyone at BCAN for welcoming us into your amazing network of partners, supporters, and friends! It’s been such a joy working with each of these talented & passionate creative entrepreneurs & we can’t wait to see them shine on Showcase Day!

If you’d like to learn more about how you can support these fellows & the entire BCAN program, please visit www.BaltimoreCreates.org

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