Every once in a while we have the good fortune of working on a project that we feel truly matters, a project that we’ll still be thinking about years from now. Maybe even something we can imagine telling our grandkids about – surely you’ve had moments like that where something you did in your professional life really mattered?

Hanna Roth

I am creating coloring books to encourage people to find a connection to their own creativity but the next step will be creating books that make you realize the artworks we are surrounded by more easily and also encourage in a different way of creatinh. Read more>>

PocketRocket Youngn

I would have to say my current project is the most meaningful ever. I’m currently doing something that has never been done before. Read more>>

Makeda Kumasi

As a Culture Bearer and an organizer, over the years I have found myself on the administration / business side of Arts and Culture. Read more>>

Menghe Jing

When I saw this question, my thoughts were still “Fading” even after composing a lot of different music and projects. “Fading” explores the cultural heritage and its vulnerability in the face of modernization through traditional Chinese street shout-out slogans. Read more>>

Jeff Desautels

In 2022, my friend and colleague Amica Hunter and I decided to produce a mini-horror theatre festival in Portland, Oregon. We were inspired by the Twin Cities Horror Festival, and we both happened to be working on spooky-adjacent material. Read more>>

Jerry Allison

It may seem odd, but I wish to describe a project that never got beyond the design stage. Yet I, and all who have seen it, think it very significant and deeply meaningful. Read more>>

Trinity Rose

I love this question. I’m passionate about aligning my skills in brand strategy and creative leadership with purpose-driven brands and businesses. Read more>>

Chris Cander

The Young of Other Animals is my fifth published novel, and my most personal one to date. It follows the lives of Mayree and Paula, a mother and daughter drifting apart, separated by grief and more, after the death of Mayree’s husband. Read more>>

Kallie Cheves

“Embedded Stars from Sifted Scars” is an installation amidst memory-loss and absence. This artwork explores how the mind escapes the body and latches to physical places through the transience of experiences stitched into planted memories. Read more>>

Claire Buckley

When I first began to share my paintings and artistic work online, I didn’t share any meaning behind it. I liked that people were able to attach their own meaning to it. Read more>>

Frances Lightbound

It’s difficult to choose a single project, but in a personal sense, my recent residency and solo show at the John David Mooney Foundation in Chicago comes to mind. Read more>>

Lostboybk

I just finished up working on a new single called Cycles. I think it really explores a new sound that i’ve been engineering in my head. Read more>>

Anna Sarol

The work I publish online serves two distinct audiences: the disability community and the non-disability community. My primary mission is to normalize conversations surrounding disability. Read more>>

Jenna Boone

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on was my timpani method book: One-Handed Etudes and Solos for Timpani. It was meaningful not only because it was the first of its kind, but also because I used my experience with injury to write it. Read more>>

Devan Horton

My most meaningful project I believe is the one I am currently working on. Last year I was a recipient of the Kentucky Foundation for Women’s Art as Activism grant. Read more>>

Suzanne Nicolaisen

Volunteering with homeless veterans. Children’s art classes. Community creative projects, e.g. outdoor art gallery – murals in Escondido alleys, working with the community during pandemic to paint concrete K-rails on Grand Avenue, with the city ultimately receiving the Helen Putnam Award of Excellence. Read more>>

Kayla Ballesteros

The most meaningful project I worked on recently was my first solo show in November 2023. “Astral Panic” was an exhibition that explored how art has helped me better understand my intense emotions and panic attacks. Read more>>

Andrea Mendoza-Vasconez

Among many meaningful projects that I have embarked on, creating Wholesome Children Books and publishing my first book, The Love Tank, stands out as the most meaningful. Read more>>

Candace Jensen

In Situ Polyculture Commons, our arts residency, began as a reactionary idea over ten years ago, when my husband and I were living and working artists in San Francisco. Read more>>

Kathleen M. Kline

One of the most meaningful projects has been the writing and sharing of the memoir “My Life in the Dark – A Marriage Buil ton Lies”. Read more>>

Libby Reed

The most meaningful project I have created yet would be my first studio album, “Lucky Star”. I have spent the last two years writing and recording this ten track project about my experiences with a one-sided relationship and the challenges that came with loving an idea of someone. Read more>>

Michael Borsini

In 2016 a friend mentioned that an up-and-coming independent film director named Mikhail Tot was finishing a film called “In Production”. Read more>>

Jason Chai

The artistic projects that feel the most meaningful to me are the ones that I drew inspiration from my personal stories and reflected them through artmaking. Read more>>

Adanya Dunn

One of the most meaningful projects I’ve undertaken is co-founding and running Red Light Arts & Culture (RLAC) based in the heart of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Read more>>

AY Young

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is undoubtedly the Battery Tour and its extension, Project17. The backstory behind these initiatives sheds light on the circumstances and context that make them deeply significant to me. Read more>>

Maggie SanFilippo

My apparel brand, Magz Marz, is my current focus and most important work. I am excited to merge mental health advocacy and art therapy by making my apparel brand a non-profit. Read more>>

Susan Cope

My middle grade/young adult novel, What on Earth?, is the creation closest to my heart. Years in television news, where I saw everything from an open-pit mine three miles across, to lush forests suddenly yielding to clear-cut stubble, to pavement so hot it melted the soles of my shoes, alerted me to the devastation humans have brought on the environment, ourselves, and every other living thing. Read more>>

Sasha Carrera

More than once, I’ve been at an audition and the Casting Director has said “why aren’t you working?” and I always want to say “You tell me!” Read more>>

Derron Payne

The most meaningful project that I have worked on was my first book, The Art of the Pivot, that I wrote and published while still in college. Read more>>

Alyssa Murray

The best part about this career is that I am able to give something back to someone- whether it’s a part of them they’ve lost (nipple loss due to cancer or reconstructive surgeries) or something they are physically self-conscious about. Read more>>

Sarah Lederer

One of the most meaningful parts of my work is working with clients to design and create custom clothing. It’s an intimate experience, to talk with someone about the things that matter to them and figure out how to incorporate and address those things. Read more>>

Molly Smith

Altrd is hardly the first iteration of my creative side hustle but it’s the version most rooted in community. In the past, the focus was on financial gain, and this time around it’s so much more about creating space. Read more>>

Mac Premo

Last year I exhibited a series of 100 collages called I’m Usually Pretty Good At Naming Things. The series as a whole– or the effort, I should say, is an attempt at communicating with my kids. Read more>>

Rixy Fernandez

My practice is centered around projects that stylize fantastical stories and global beauty from my Latinx Caribbean culture and the communal diaspora. Read more>>

Lauren Mullinax

I am working towards creating a new healing genre of music. I am healing from mental health issues and through my song writing I’ve ended up not helping myself but others who feel exactly like I do. Read more>>

Melissa Pleckham

I’ve learned that the most meaningful projects I undertake are the ones that most accurately reflect where I’m at in my life, and what my capabilities — and limitations — are. Read more>>

Rafael Toledo

I think of ‘Blockbuster’ as my introduction as a professional director. I spent a lot of time trying to see what type of films I would like to make, and I feel with this film I got to know a lot about myself and what I like to achieve with my stories Read more>>

Ava Jinying Salzman

Ever since I was a toddler and could first pick up a pen, the things I loved to draw most were monsters: beasts, demons, skeletons, ghosts, fantastical hybrid creatures, and everything on the side of the strange and scary. Read more>>

Amir Beardsley

The most meaningful project I have worked on and continue to pursue is co-founding the Los Angeles Cowboy Poetry Gathering (LACPG). Read more>>

Randi Liberman

When asked to talk about the topic of meaningful projects, there are a whole bunch of words, thoughts and images that fly through my brain. Read more>>

Josephine Koch

The most meaningful project I created in recent years is a short film titled aptly; “Chaos Theory” because it was made during a period of self-actualization, and discovery for me in 2022 Read more>>