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?

Felicity Hesed

One of the most meaningful projects I worked on was my solo show, “Cara Vita: A Clown Concerto.” In 2018, I took the leap and left my day job in order to work as an artist full time. Already a mother of two, this was a very scary step for me. As soon as I stepped away from my day job, more and more artistic opportunities began to open up for me. With the ability to concentrate on my art, I suddenly had so many new creative ideas. Read more>>

Jessica Harris

I used to think that to create a meaningful life I had to achieve. As a recovering type-A perfectionist, I thought the only value I had came from my productivity and achievements. I thought that what was meaningful was what I could provide to others. I looked at meaning as it is defined through the Merriam-Webster dictionary: as anything that brings forth “a significant quality.” But my health has allowed me to reconsider what I think about creating meaningful projects. Read more>>

Ann Blakeslee

One of the most meaningful projects I’ve worked on, at least recently, is the Write for Mental Wellness campaign, which is in association with our community writing resource YpsiWrites, in collaboration with the Washtenaw County Health Department. YpsiWrites is powered by the Eastern Michigan University Office of Campus & Community Writing in collaboration with the Ypsilanti District Library and 826michigan. Read more>>

Chuck + Peg Hoffman

In 2015, we decided to leave urban Kansas City and move to a remote village in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington state. This was not just any village, but the most distant and remote village we could imagine at the time. This was a place of aging glaciers and tumbling icy creeks. Read more>>

Sterling Carter

It’s hard for me to pick just one. My documentary, A Beloved Community: A Healthier Linden highlighting the Linden Neighborhood in Columbus is tied for first. The videos that I filmed of the murals being created for a local initiative titled “Deliver Black Dreams” were also very meaningful. Read more>>

Joseph Jefferson

Some of the best projects I’ve been associated with are the weekly podcasts that we created The Tesla Beat is an amazing 4 person roundtable about the facts and some misunderstandings surrounding Tesla Read more>>

Ina Keys

The most meaningful project that I’ve worked on happens to be connected to one of the most challenging experiences in my life…In 2015, during the beginning of my junior year of high school I was suddenly diagnosed with an autoimmune disease where my pancreas produces little to no insulin: Type 1 diabetes. I had no idea what was going on, but I knew instantly things wouldn’t be the same. Read more>>

Liz Liberatore Natalie Hackett

We started the Golden Hour Birth Podcast in May of 2022 and share birth stories of all kinds. This podcast has been our passion project since we met, became sisters-in-law, and bonded for our love of all things birth. We drew up this idea over a few glasses of wine and put plans in motion by the next day. What started as asking friends to share their birth stories turned into something much bigger. Read more>>

Scream Revolution

On November 9, 2021 we got a DM on Instagram from a local bar: The End in Torrance. “What’s your schedule like for the rest of the year? We are looking to book for Saturday Night, possibly Fridays as well. Let me know, we’d love to have you.” The dream DM for any band, let alone a teen band. Our drummer was still in 8th grade and the rest of us in high school. Read more>>

Rivers Johnson

I believe great things come from the most meaningful projects. I had a very dear friend pass away volunteering as a medic in New York during Covid. His family couldn’t afford a gravestone. It broke my heart. I learned how to make stickers out of my art and sold stickers to help earn a gravestone for him. Luckily word got out and we were able to get him his stone fast. Read more>>

Tony Abrams

I have been honored to host the Jerry Garcia Birthday Bash for the last 16 years. It means so much to me, as we have had a positive impact in our community. We have raised well over $100,000 for local 501(c)3 charities in the Flagstaff, AZ area in the last 10 years. Read more>>

Ally Manno

The most meaningful project I worked on was also the hardest, which is what gives it its meaning. I painted a fairly big painting, 54×54 inches, and it is of a black circle with black blocks going up and down, and tons of minute red details hand painted painstakingly. The backstory of this particular painting isn’t all that exciting; I just considered it a challenge piece for myself. Read more>>

Kat Echevarria Richter

I founded The Lady Hoofers Tap Ensemble in 2011 and twelve years later we’re a thriving 501(c)3 nonprofit dance company. Our mission is to produce original works of choreography while preserving the tradition of improvisation in American rhythm tap, bringing innovative percussive dance to diverse audiences. Read more>>

SkyBlew

For me as an artist, creating meaningful projects is imperative! 🎨⛅ Read more>>

John Boy

The song titled Wobble by artist VIC is the most meaningful project that I’ve worked on. I’m featured on the majority of the song, and it is truly amazing to see people around the world dance to the sound of my voice. I don’t feel as if i get the credit that I deserve, but when I get the opportunity to perform my parts of the song, it all speaks for itself. Thankfully the song is currently 4 /12 times platinum and fits in the wall perfectly with my other platinum and gold plaques. Read more>>

Kari Massey

I’ve recently covered Mavi’s “Laughing so hard, it hurts.” tour. That had to one of the most meaningful moments of my career purely because of the atmosphere due to the fans, and respective thanks to Zay, Mavi and all of KS. Read more>>

Dr. Van Bailey

One of my most meaningful projects was styling and co-curating visuals for the bklyn boihood calendars in 2014 and 2015. This project was soon after being the inaugural director of BGLTQ+ Student Life at Harvard and I was looking to engage in more creative work as a means of self-care. Working with a community of transmasculine folx was a dream come true. It’s not often you get to see the diversity within our community. Read more>>

Huan LaPlante

After finishing my master’s, I’ve been taking a break from conceptual work to develop my commercial portfolio of prints and watercolor works. This latter half of the year I intend to use to return to my conceptual and experimental work. “To Be a Cloud”, the body of work I developed for my thesis, has been my biggest leap as I let myself choose materials and media that fit my topics rather than confining myself to a single media. Read more>>

Christina Bledsoe

One of my favorite projects – I was commissioned by an amazing group of friends that wanted to memorialize their group ‘mascot,’ an adorable orange tabby cat named Boog. The commissioner sent me photos of Boog, so I created dice that mimiced his orange and white fur, including brown glitter to represent his nose freckles. Read more>>

Nina Nepa

My debut release, I wrote “unCharted” to describe my transformational journey away from mechanical engineering into a music-driven career. I worked on this project truly from cradle to grave. I wrote, recorded, produced, and mixed the track, capturing a super talented cellist to accompany my arrangement. This track was just the first step on the long road ahead of me. Read more>>

Blue McRight

One of my most meaningful recent projects was Fathom (2018), presented at the Angel’s Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, California. Fathom engaged the community through a series of in-person workshops to create a group of sculptures that would be shown together as an installation in the gallery. The artwork addressed local projected sea level rise as well as the urgent problem of ocean plastic. Read more>>

Nicole Blodig

This is a great question, and now is when I get sappy. My most meaningful project was from this last fall, when I was the lighting designer for “rockabye, or: a play about a tree” written by my colleague Meg Mechelke. This might be kind of ramble-y, so bear with me (I just have a lot of great feelings about this project). Read more>>

Verô Souza

Choosing the most meaningful project is quite a task because every branding assignment is a special journey with its own nuances and value. However, if I have to spotlight one, it would be my work with ‘Slow Stories’, a podcast and platform that explores the importance of slowing down in our fast-paced, digital world. Read more>>

Chad Cochran

After doing a series of portraits with musicians, I asked if they would be willing to share a story about how mental health had played a role in their life. My goal was to normalize the conversation around mental health and present one of my portraits, along with their story as a project. I ended up creating the “I Didn’t Want to Tell You” series from this idea. Read more>>

Tiana Davis

The most meaningful project I have participated in to date involves designing my own tarot deck and having it featured in a new popular tarot deck that comes out later this year. This was the first time I stepped into the tarot arena and declared like ‘no, I’m more than a reader. I’m also an author/designer with a vision and it deserves space here too.’ Read more>>

Olivia Hughart

I am the founder and artistic director of “Key of She Jazz,” an organization devote to supporting and encouraging more girls and non binary students to play jazz starting a middle school level. Read more>>

Solace Taylor

Introspection and thanks given are parts of my daily regimen. The critical thoughts mined are turned into mantras for self care. Said mantras serve as the foundation for some of my songs. My pen is tied to my truth. I strive to create real soul music. Read more>>

Rachel Rios

I am fortunate enough to be remounting my play, LIZ ESTRADA: A Comedy for Reproductive Rights, for the third time at Long Beach Shakespeare Company on July 29th as part of their New Works Festival. LIZ was written between the Supreme Court draft leak threatening Roe v. Wade and the eventual Dobbs decision. Read more>>

Samantha Kochis

I have recently been putting time into my “tree scores” project. Elements of nature are a common thread of my artistic practice, as I find many relatable elements between nature and sound study. “Tree Scores” is a continuous collection of graphic scores that documents the creases and messages of tree bark. Read more>>

Kyle Price

I am developing a show called “Make It A Moment” which is a personal and project that I am developing as a love letter to Black & gay/queer men to create a safe space within the community that allows us to develop more intimately in a public space. Read more>>

Gregory Schneider

The Ghost Series This has been an on-going project where I have set out to create 666 unique pieces depicting “Ghosts” over the course of six “books”. Why six books? I had a feeling that creating Ghost piece after Ghost piece could become mundane or boring, so with each “book” the pieces get larger, and I try to spice it up with some new element. Read more>>

Deanna Loggins

For the past couple of years I have been investing into multiple Black owned businesses. From beauty, to food, and everything in between. Being able to feed back into my community has brought me so much joy and even inspired me to continue to work on my dreams and discover new dreams along the way. Read more>>

Prince Ivy

The most meaningful project I’m currently working on is Don’t Hate Appreciate the new Tape I’m going to release. It’s a project with a collection of songs and vibes from these past two years from beats from my dawg Skarr . This is a project that is connected with project forward as my first release with PF. Read more>>

Max Martelli

Glad to be here! Read more>>

Tatiana Ilina

Sometimes art can change how people see the world, but I want to change how the world sees people. Read more>>

Barbara Bridges

I have been a teacher for over 40 years. Teaching art in Maine, Mexico, St. Croix and Minnesota and then training teachers at Bemidji State University for 20 years. This is the most meaningful project I have had the privilege to lead. Read more>>

Kelly Morgan

One of the projects that meant the most significant to me was going to Malibu… to record with producer 7 Aurelius. It was amazing… He is a Grammy award winning producer it was eye opening to me. it was my first time having to learn a record on the spot and what it takes to be able to do that . I really found beauty in the experience . Read more>>