Women History Month Exhibition 2024
ON VIEW March 2nd, 2024 - March 23rd, 2024 Presented by Kente Royal Gallery
Celebrating Women's History Month by shining a spotlight on the work of incredible Women Artists! MelissaBStudios joins an exceptional cohort of talented artists set to showcase their works this year. Get ready to be inspired by creativity, passion, and unique perspectives.
Certificate in Women’s Entrepreneurship
About the Bank of America Institute for Women’s Entrepreneurship at Cornell University provides women entrepreneurs with the practical educational resources to build, manage, and scale a successful business. In this series of six online courses authored by faculty of Cornell University, students will identify critical skills in entrepreneurial leadership, communication, and relationship management, and will find ways to carry out effective customer discovery, lay the right legal building blocks for a venture, seek appropriate financing, and create a product development strategy. Throughout the program, students will identify both opportunities and vulnerabilities in key areas of their venture and walk away with action plans for increasing their chances of success.
Networking Mixer
Learn more about the various service providers in the Haitian community at this Networking Mixer. Similar to a pop-up shop, L'Union of Haitian Creatives will be featuring different business owners in the Haitian community where you can learn about their services and also purchase items they sale at their individual booths.
Solo Exhibit
A fashion experience through Visual Arts. Bringing to life the artistic vision of new diversity, set new gender fluidity standards, and break the conformity mold.
The Photographer Talk
A serie curated by Yeny Ferreras for her Digital Photography class at the Bronx Community College, this series focuses on giving inspiration to the class of aspiring photographers for their upcoming final photography exhibition. I had the pleasure of being a guest speaker for her Spring semester class via zoom and Fall semester class in person for the first time.
CanvasRebel Magazine Interview
CanvasRebel Magazine Interviews small business owners, artists and creatives in our communities. They believe that these creatives are talented and deserve more coverage, more platforms and more opportunities to share their stories and insights. Through features this magazine plays a role in getting those insights out into the world. CanvasRebel Magazine mission “is to create a space for artists, creatives and entrepreneurs to be able to learn from their peers through the magic and power of storytelling.”
Check out MelissaBStudios interview with CanvasRebel Magazine Interviews!
Visual Coverage
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Haitian Businesses Expo LIVE 2022
Haitian Heritage Month Celebration LIVE conversation with business owners and professionals facilitated by the Haitian Businesses Organization. Where every year during Haitian Heritage Month they promote culture and business from the community by supporting entrepreneurs from different fields in the Haitian Community abroad.
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Trailblazers Panel
CATEGORY: Haitian Photographer
MelissaBStudios first panel! Shared my experiences on how I created my own path as an innovator in my field in hopes of inspiring, encouraging, and empowering current entrepreneurs.
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L’union of Haitian Creatives celebrate and honor multi-faceted individuals that are influencing and inspiring the Haitian Community. The event encapsulate up-and-coming, trailblazing, and dynamic talent in the Haitian community. The Trailblazers Panel seek to embody our country Haiti’s motto of L’Union, by bringing multi-faceted individuals into one space to share their journey, trials, tribulations, lessons, and talents.
Event Sponsored By MelissaBStudios
The Sistah Social is an annual event during Women History that serve as a networking event for Women Entrepreneurs & Creatives. MelissaBStudios had the pleasure to sponsor this wonderful event by Women for Women.
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Featured in the Zoulette Blog
In this article the Founder of Zoulette reach out to various women to talk about the topic of Self Focus in 2022. What are you focusing on this year? How do you keep your focus? What motivates you to keep focused? ‘When you focus on yourself you create more self-worth’. The Zoulette blog is a platform where women are pushed to share their stories to uplift and support each other.
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ShoutoutLA Interview
ShoutoutLA interviews inspiring entrepreneurs and creatives in their Shoutout Series. The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that your success and where you are in life as entrepreneur and creative is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. ShoutoutLA “is built on recommendations and shoutouts from the community; it’s how we uncover hidden gems”.
Check out MelissaBStudios interview with ShoutoutLA!
Featured in Forbes
Photo by MelissaBStudios for Zoulette featured on Forbes Style & Beauty segment, summer article “These Are The Brands You Should Wear On Your Trip To Mykonos” by Forbes in house contributor.
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Featured in GLAMOUR Magazine UK
Photo by MelissaBStudios for Zoulette featured on GLAMOUR Shops “The fashion and accessories buys we're adding to our Out-Out 'fits” Series One of Sixteen brand carefully hand-selected by the GLAMOUR UK editors.
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Featured in ShoutoutLA
MelissaBStudios had the pleasure of capturing the owner of PS EVENT DECOR Terrelle Powell for his interview with ShoutoutLA.
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Featured in the Zoulette Blog
The Zoulette blog is a platform where women are pushed to share their stories to uplift and support each other by network for the common goal of creating a community of strong confident women.
#WomenInBusiness #WomenOwnedBusiness
Event Sponsored by MelissaBStudios
#THEDIMEEXPERIENCE THE MOST FASHIONABLE EVENT OF THE SUMMER brought to you by Dose of Mi!
#WomenInBusiness #WomenOwnedBusiness
Event Sponsored By MelissaBStudios
The Sistah Social is an annual event during Women History that serve as a networking event for Female Entrepreneurs & Creatives. MelissaBStudios had the pleasure to sponsor this wonderful event by Women for Women. When a group of women come together beautiful things happen, Women Empowerment at its finest!
#WomenInBusiness #WomenOwnedBusiness
Featured in
BWP
Black Women Photographers is a global community and online database/directory of Black Women and non-binary photographers. Honored to be amongst so many fellow talented and creative Black Women Photographers from around the world.
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B&H Event Space Talk
MelissaBStudios first speaking engagement titled ‘Women in Photography’ with B&H Event Space! A glimpse into what was going on behind the scene before the live event. Thank you to the B&H Event Space team for providing a platform where young entrepreneurs and creatives can share their experiences. Thankful for the opportunity, this was a great experience excitement, nervousness, giggles and all!
Listen in as photographer Mélissa Baptiste gives the RAW truth and not the JPG version of starting a business as a woman in photography. She will give insight on balancing being an entrepreneur and being a creative from a woman's perspective.
Excerpt from the conversation, to watch the full conversation click here
RAW Artists Showcase
RAW Natural Born Artists spotlights independent talent in the creative art industry. RAW Artists is a fun and alternative way for creatives to showcase both to their local community and the world at large. The RAW showcase is not your average art show. RAW is loud, colorful, creative, fun and all about their artists. RAW Artists showcase the independent creative community, giving independent artists the opportunity to be seen and heard.
