Victor Pigasse

The most meaningful and challenging project I’ve undertaken is undoubtedly my first feature film, Bottled Up (originally titled Game of Love). I produced and directed it. It’s a comedy of errors set entirely in one house over the course of a single night, following a group of people who have placed their love in all the wrong places. The film explores love in its most misguided forms—heartbreak, miscommunication, and the irrational hope that often follows. Read More>>

Axel Castro

The most meaningful project I have ever worked on is a piece of music that I wrote for my mom. It is called “We Fly Together”. I wrote it in a time of turmoil for my family, and working on that piece really was a nice step away from all the chaos that was going on at the time. Read More>>

Heather Pendlington

Designing a custom tattoo is a deeply personal process for many individuals. I have consultations with almost all of my custom clients because I want to make sure I can capture the vision they have for their tattoo. I’m a huge animal lover and animal themed projects always have such a special place in my heart. I’ve been so lucky to be able to collaborate with a number of clients to immortalize their fur babies. Tattooing dogs and cats is always challenging and rewarding Read More>>

Danica Lee

I opened my art business for about 5 years now and my main struggle has been finding a niche that suited my goals and passions. I have been a cyclist for most of my life, being a cross country mountain bike racer since middle school and being in the industry professionally for a little over a year now. While my job in a shop is relatively lucrative, it has helped me to recognize a huge gap in a niche market. Bicycle painting. I frequently get asked if we “have this bike in a different color” or that customers want a ride that “suits them”, and I realized this was something I could offer. Read More>>

Jeni(Jieni) Huang

In addition to Microsoft Places, the AI-powered workplace platform I designed at Microsoft to support coordination and well-being for millions of hybrid employees, one of the most meaningful personal projects I’ve worked on is EMO+—a board game I co-created with my friend Xingxue Wang to help autistic adults and their loved ones better understand each other through emotional storytelling and role-play. Read More>>

Rebecca Zeh

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on Is my current body of work, fusion of artistic practices incorporating performance art and 2D visual art. Combining my passion for improvisational dance and my lifelong visual arts practice, over the past 5 years I have been building a body of mixed media drawings that celebrate creative expression through movement, nature, and our connection to nature as humans. Read More>>

Faith Watkins

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is my BFA final show, “A Fray to Mend.” It was more than just a capstone; it became a turning point for me as both an artist and a person. The project centered around themes of mental health, healing, vulnerability, and symbolism, using embroidery, lace-making, and painting to explore emotional repair through the language of textiles. Read More>>

Mackenzie Norton

The most meaningful project I have ever been a part of is the creation of my cheerleading clinics for people of all abilities. I have been a cheerleader throughout high school — and will cheer for the University of Miami — and was the president of my high school’s Best Buddies (BB) chapter. Best Buddies is an international nonprofit focusing on the inclusion of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Read More>>

Daniel Gaviani

The Art of Letting Go, a two-person exhibition I co-led at Atlantic Works Gallery, remains one of the most meaningful projects I’ve ever been part of. Coinciding with Mental Health Awareness Month, the show invited people into an emotional space—not just to view, but to participate. By creating a special installation, guests were encouraged to write down something they needed to release and leave it behind – to be later lit on fire as a sign of release and transformation. Read More>>

Karen Lewis

Every project I work on is meaningful to someone. When you think of flowers, you can’t help but think of expressions of love. While we often give flowers to loved ones on Valentine’s Day, they also play a role in some of life’s biggest milestones. A bouquet of flowers is carried down the aisle of a wedding to symbolize the love between two people. We send flowers to a memorial service to express our love for someone who is no longer with us. Read More>>

Buu G

The first full album I produced was ‘Smokehouse’ by Kaleidoscope Records. I had been working with their CEO and main artist Grandmaster Shogun for about a year when he proposed the idea to me. That idea being a feel good classic hip-hop album for stoners to smoke to, accented by it’s 70’s soul samples and groovy drums. Read More>>

Melisa Cakiroglu

One of the most meaningful projects I’ve worked on is Healthy Mind Map, a mental health support app designed to help people build healthier habits and stay connected with both the people who care about them and the professionals supporting them. Founder/CEO Michael Batt led the project with Senior Product Manager Kyle Charlesworth. When they brought me on as the designer, I could instantly tell this wasn’t just another wellness app. It had a heart. Read More>>

Marcus Terrell Smith

One of the most meaningful projects of my life has been creating MUTT – A New Musical Comedy.

After three unforgettable years performing in The Book of Mormon—an experience that shaped me both as an artist and a person—I made the bold decision to step away and create something of my own. That show taught me what was possible on the Broadway stage: how the bizarre, the irreverent, and the wildly absurd can still tell stories that reach deep into the human heart. Read More>>

Bella B Cash

The most meaningful project I worked on in 2024 with a producer Yung Rick Foxx called “Hard Times” This song was pretty difficult to record in fact I remember having more than 10 versions of it. The mixing of the record and all of the various vocals wasn’t easy, but we got it done. I really enjoy this record because it describes a hard time as an individual trying to produce and provide for yours whether that be a dream or a family in my cases both. Read More>>

Barbara Jurgensmeier

As a music therapist, I’ve had the chance to work with a wide range of populations, including survivors of domestic violence. Last year, I partnered in the Angel Band Project (ABP), a St. Louis-based organization that uses music therapy to promote healing and empowerment for survivors of domestic abuse. I led an 8-week group at Newhouse, a local domestic violence shelter here in Kansas City. Read More>>

Alex Grelle Grelle

The Grelley Duvall Show has been the most meaningful project to me for the past ten years. GD is a pure distillation of my artistic vision. The Grelley Duvall Show is a revue style show that focuses on film parody and is a full blown marathon for me as a performer and producer. I sing (on key). I act. I dance. Sometimes…all at the same time. Grelley Duvall helps me escape from reality and my hope is to have the audience get the chance to escape as well. Read More>>

Anthony Caldwell

Two years ago, I attended the Cleveland International Film Festival with a film I produced and starred in called Convergence. While I was there, I found myself inspired by filmmakers boldly telling Jewish stories, a part of my own heritage with which I’ve often struggled to connect. At the time, America was experiencing a wave of movements confronting prejudice and hate, particularly the Black Lives Matter movement. Read More>>

Eloise Lola Gordon

Talk to Me Like the Rain is a short film I adapted from a Tennessee Williams one-act play of the same name. I acted in it, directed it, and oversaw all aspects of creative direction. It’s a project I had been developing in my mind for about seven years, and I finally brought it to life. Read More>>

Kuniko

After one of my show ‘Origami Tales” at a mid-sized theater, still in costume, I walked through the hallway to meet the audience. Teachers and hundreds of students lined up, excited. One teacher leaned in and said, “I didn’t know origami played such a big role in STEM.” And students shouted, “Origami is cool! Can I make a dragon?” Read More>>

Shannon Corbeil

When Napoleon Bonaparte’s little sister was given the chance to pose for a statue as the virgin goddess Diana, she instead shocked the world by posing nude like Venus. Read More>>

Justin Tompkins

Since 2017, I’ve been taking portraits of my grandmother. What started as a whim cheerfully became a project the following year when she joked about doing another photoshoot. I couldn’t decline her offer and 8 years later this project has become my longest and the one I hold most dear. Read More>>

Sundeep Morrison

Recently, I worked on very personal short film called Flight 182. It was written and directed by Rippin Sindher and I starred opposite her brother Gurinder Sindher. The film was inspired by true events and centered around the tragic story of the largest act of aviation terrorism in the world before 9/11. The film explores the depth of a family bond, and effects of political violence. This year marked the 40th anniversary of this tragedy. Read More>>

Kaylah Taylor

I want to share my most recent project, which has been with the Autism Theater Project for a groundbreaking series called “The Voice Inside.” I am a person who is autistic, and this project shows what it’s like to live on the spectrum—and how society often places limitations on who we can be or what we can achieve. Read More>>

 

Stacy Hsu

One of the most meaningful projects I’ve worked on is my Olympic National Park illustration series. This project started as a personal exploration — I was spending a lot of time hiking and camping in the park, and felt deeply inspired by the biodiversity and the range of ecosystems packed into one region: temperate rainforests, alpine meadows, rugged coastlines. I wanted to capture the spirit of the landscape in a way that reflected my own awe and reverence for the place. Read More>>

Lisa Weiss

When I was a child, my father showed me a small box he’d kept from his own childhood. The box contained tiny treasures — a miniature deck of cards, toy soldiers, a whistle, a magnet. Very small things that meant a lot to him. When he was growing up in the 1940s and 1950s, miniature toys came inside cereal boxes. His family couldn’t afford to buy toys, so he collected these little giveaways. Read More>>

Yuri Uzcategui

One of the most meaningful projects I’ve worked on is definitely “The Trilogy of Integration.” Not just because of the artistic outcome, but because of the emotional and personal journey behind it. Read More>>

Katt

Some of the most meaningful projects I have worked on have been projects that help tell a story, and you will actually find a lot of storytelling in all of my creative projects from web design, branding, and even work I do on production crews a producer and technical director. Read More>>

Chloe Rouse Armstrong

I know that as a videographer, my placement and purpose in any room is to document a moment. In the last 12 years, I’ve been lucky enough to capture some of the most meaningful moments in others’ lives, celebratory moments that become cherished time capsules. I’ve also had to be brave enough to capture moments that no one wants to experience, but they deserve to be documented. Read More>>

Luca Millard-Kish

One of my most meaningful projects was the premiere of my orchestral piece Reflections, performed by the Seattle Symphony. It was a dream opportunity to write for a professional ensemble of that caliber early in my career, and it was also a deeply personal piece rooted in a chapter of major transition and emotional growth. Read More>>

Jason Greenlaw

As always – my original music. It is a constantly evolving and moving reflection of who and where we are as an artist. At any given point in time writing and performing my original music is always the most meaningful. I’ve released multiple albums and singles with multiple groups. Right now my new album to be released under my own name is the most meaningful project. Read More>>

Gift Sampson

The most meaningful project I have worked on is my social media series, “Follow the Vibes Indy.” It’s a social media series where I tell people about events going on in the city, so we can all be there as a collective, having fun, building communities, and supporting our local businesses and event organizers. Read More>>

Jinyu Cao

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is my personal photography project, So Long My Land.

It began in 2014, but its roots trace back to a life-changing year—2013—when I was a freshman in college. That year, both of my parents were hospitalized, and my father nearly lost his life. He survived thanks to a liver transplant, but the experience completely shifted how I saw the world. Read More>>

Anna Borou Yu

As a researcher and media artist, I am exploring how traditional art forms and ancient imagination could be reinterpreted through embodied technology. One of the most meaningful projects I’ve worked on is Embodied Ink, a media performance piece that reimagines Chinese calligraphy through interactive media. Read More>>

Rodrigo Tolentino

My most meaningful project is The CRXSSXVER (07-19-25), a genre-blending event Yung Curry (Ash) and I are producing alongside a small team of creatives here in San Diego. At its core, it’s a cultural bridge. We’re bringing together EDM, reggaeton, and hip-hop under one roof, with one 360 stage, and live vocal performances. Read More>>

Bryan Young

Well, the most meaningful project I’ve worked on, I still can’t talk about because of an NDA, but short of that, I can talk about some of the others. When I was a kid, I read every book in the house that I could get my hands on. Reading was an escape from all of the horrible things going on. Whatever you imagine, it was probably worse. And I was reading things I probably shouldn’t have at ages far too young. Read More>>

Whitney Shefte

I’ve had incredible opportunities to make short documentaries all over the world, especially during my time as a video journalist at the Washington Post. One of the most meaningful projects I made was when I embedded with the journalism class at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in the aftermath of the horrific shootings there in 2018. Read More>>

Helen Logan

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on was probably with a music video called “Charyes” for a band call Low Cut Connie. On the morning it was released “Rolling Stones” raved about it. Said we “lit up the night”. That was definitely super magical and fun! Read More>>

Christina McPhee

In the best of times a meaningful project is one in which the hands-on material process of intuitive searching and paying attention leads to new ideas, which can be communicated beyond me into common grounds, culturally and spiritually. One is a recent and ongoing project, working title Feast Day: Saints and Supernaturals. Read More>>

Chris Tsosie

Meaningful projects… there are so many. From personal one on one with clients. Creating something new every time. To working with other creatives in editorial, working with brides on their special day. They all have been so meaningful. Pouring the creativity into that project, being able to express what’s going on in my mind. Telling a story with each project, seeing the way it’s interpreted by everyone is the rewarding part. Read More>>

Kellie Madison

Nenu The Magical Wizard is definitely the most meaningful project I’ve worked on in my entire film career. As a filmmaker, I’ve told all kinds of stories—but this one is inherently different. Kids today are growing up in a world full of pressure, distraction, and self-doubt, and I wanted to create something that reminds them they’re already enough. Nenu encourages kids to slow down, Read More>>