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?

Marisol Garcia

One of the most important projects we are working on is called Asymetric. It has the support of local institutions in the Canary Islands, as well as agencies from across Europe, well-known brands, and international artists we are collaborating with.

Asymetric focuses primarily on Berlin’s Underground Techno and Ravekultur, aiming to bring an authentic clubbing experience to the city. We feature international artists from some Top-notch clubs, attracting a diverse crowd, mostly from Germany and Switzerland in a more exclusive and intimate setting, offering a unique party concept. Read more>>

Donna Viscuso

One of the most meaningful projects I have done is collaborating with dancers. I think collaboration is extremely important. Read more>>

Echo Grim

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on, is the album I’m currently working on.

“Homunculus: The Rebirth”
Which comes out sometime in the fall.

There’s going to be a lot of vulnerable places I go on this album with a lot of my past experiences. It gets dark. Read more>>

Dessaray Seay

One of the most meaningful projects I’ve worked on is the Confident & Creative Girls Club because it was born out of my own journey of resilience and the desire to create a safe space for young girls to grow into their most confident selves. Read more>>

Pamela Moidel

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is my personal drawing journal—a small sketchbook I began in 2021 & have taken with me on travels around the world. It’s a sacred space where I capture my experiences through drawings & words, reflecting my ever-evolving reality. Read more>>

Valerie Allen

One of the most meaningful projects I have worked on was the opportunity to paint live with a symphony orchestra. It all started the day I was working as a curator for an arts nonprofit and the executive director for the Saginaw Bay Symphony walked in wanting recommendations for an artist to paint with the orchestra. As I am also a visual artist, I raised my hand up in the air and said “I’ll do it! I would love to do this project. This type of collaboration has been a dream of mine.” They choose me! Read more>>

Joshua Gomez

I’m just excited for what’s coming! I’ve had so many stories I want to tell, something so new and fresh I want to bring to fans of heavy music, and music in general, really. The EP I have coming out this year dives into all that, the characters and backstories and the psychological theories behind it all, there’s so many layers I have set up that I can’t wait to share with fans through music videos, the cover art, the live show, and the music of course. Read more>>

Joe Cantamessa

The most meaningful project of my career is one that’s still under wraps—our upcoming album. While I can’t share too many details due to confidentiality, I can say that this project has challenged me in ways I never anticipated, both as a guitarist and producer. It has pushed me to explore new artistic directions and delve deeper into my creative core, breaking many internal and external boundaries along the way. Read more>>

Jennifer Zahlit

My first feature, FRIEND DIVORCE, is definitely the most meaningful project I’ve ever created. It was a story about friendship that I made with my creative partner and best friend Kat Belinfante. The film gently pushed us to become better people and artists. Making a feature film is no small feat. You’re starting a business, managing people, and trying to bring your creative vision to life all at once. It takes a lot of communication and self-awareness to work with different personalities, and I’m proud to say that Kat and I came out stronger from this experience, which I’m very grateful for. Read more>>

Alina Shimova

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on has been my latest series, New Totems. This series has been a breakthrough for me in multiple ways—stylistically, conceptually, and career-wise. It represents the moment where everything aligned: my artistic voice, my technique, and my vision of what I want to say through my work. Read more>>

Dremon

The most meaningful projects are always the now and wha to lead up to it. The now for me is my Singles ‘Shiftin’ produced by Fontainn of Podium Muzik and ‘Take It Personal’ Produced by Nike Boy and shot by Vivid Canvas. Shiftin has been in the process of major placents and getting radio play and Take it Perosonal is following next to Recieving a Placement for the soundtrack to Boneyard starring Mel Gibson and 50 Cent for my Song What I Did. I started these records in New Jersey at Play Masters studio and then Aeros Independent Studios home in Albuquerque New Mexico. This is all in the mist of having one of the biggest runs of my career yet national and international. This lead up to my deal with my company The Music / GT Digital and Empire. Dubbed with my promotion at Times Square with my awesome PR. Read more>>

Avi Roque

Voicing Raine Whispers in Disney’s The Owl House was a pivotal moment in my career. This opportunity came about when I had been on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) for about two years. My voice had dropped and settled, and I was living in LA during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. In June of that year, my agent sent me the audition, and I’ll be honest—I hadn’t heard of the show. The character rendering included with the audition side showed Raine with fair skin, clearly white, not resembling me at all. But I decided to give it my best shot, recorded my takes, and sent them off to my agent, who passed them along to the casting director. At the time, I didn’t expect to get the part and genuinely forgot about it. Read more>>

Brianna Rae Quinn

When I first started writing, I was genuinely too afraid to tell real stories. My first published book, Where Flowers Bloom, was a collection of poetry spanning about ten years of writing as early as middle school. As I hand selected the pieces I wanted to include, I noticed already that I was choosing pieces that felt almost as if they pandered to what I thought people wanted, rather than pieces I genuinely liked or was proud of at the time of writing or that meant something to me at that time in my life. I wondered a lot through the process if I was truly creating a collection that showed my journey through time or if I was trying too hard to mold all my old pieces into a better reflection of who I am now. Read more>>

Aatmica Ojha

My work embodies a deep commitment to philanthropy through art. In the year 2021, I got a chance to participate in a fundraiser called ‘Support Breast Cancer Survivors through Art’ where I donated 50% of my earnings from the sold painting. This event was a turning point in my life as I realized that art can be used for a higher good! Read more>>

Jay Palmieri Jr.

I have been fortunate enough to make 14 short films and 2 feature films, to date. I consider all my projects special to me. Each one I feel has taught me so much and helped me grow as a filmmaker. As a horror fan, I love various sub genres and tones, my favorites being the slasher, supernatural, and erotic thriller sub genres. From campy Blumhouse style to dark a24 style tone. Of all my films I still consider my 2016 LGBT erotic thriller, TASTE, my best film to date. This was the fifth film I wrote and directed. It’s the project that I feel is the most cinematic and displays the type of films I’d love to continue to bring to the screen. During that era I was really inspired by European horror and thrillers, especially French cinema. I love how European films always feel so honest and realistic. Read more>>

Dana-Marie Bullock

I am currently developing a performance, The Unspeaking Woman, that extends the body of work I am producing for my upcoming MFA thesis show at Pratt Institute. Drawing upon my research and the material experiments I produced in the form of paintings, sculptures, photographs, and installations, The Unspeaking Woman marks my debut with live performance and explores themes related to disability, trauma and loss, bodily autonomy, sexuality, and gender. Read more>>

Sauda Aziza Jackson

The most meaningful project was the first project I ever wrote and performed in myself, IDIGRESS: The Intimate Insights of a Childhood Weirdo. It’s a four episode transmedia performance memoir that explored the weight of inheritance and the recollection of memories and materials lost to time by fusing theatrical performance, music, projection design, archival materials, filmmaking and video art. Read more>>

Mary Crnkovic Pilas

One of the most meaningful projects I’ve worked on was photographing Ivona Martincic, a talented, multimedia artist, and her artwork. She is best known for her crochet graffiti piece „Love Cracks“ – a crocheted broken heart with the two halves stitched together over a crack in the wall – that became a symbol of hope in Zagreb and all of Croatia after the 2020 earthquake and Covid pandemic. Read more>>

Jazzydel

In 2021 I created a piece titled “Black man in America”. It was something that was way out of my comfort zone and in all honesty I was afraid to even touch on the topic. After a lot of back and forth and some encouragement from my wife, I knew I had to honor the vision given to me and go forward with making it. Black man in America tells the very unfortunate story of what happens way too much in this country. Where others are given leeway to maneuver through life, black men and women are constantly and unjustly punished for simply being. It’s an uncomfortable and heartbreaking reality and I hope that by sharing the piece it can become a catalyst to having difficult but necessary conversations. Read more>>

Jack Ghostel

Over the years, I’ve worked on many projects aimed at challenging how we see and value one another. One of the projects I hold closest to my heart is my “Offensive Acceptance” series. The concept revolves around painting the bodies of everyday women, capturing every unique detail that makes them who they are, and celebrating the idea that beauty exists in all shapes and sizes. I’ve always questioned the notion of a universal standard of beauty—who decided that? Why do we allow people in power to dictate what is or isn’t beautiful? It’s damaging, especially to women. Society profits off insecurities by making women feel like they’re not enough, and I hate that. Read more>>

Andrea Durfee

During the summer of last year, I began sinking into intuitively channeled art creation and began my ‘Intuitive Goddess Sessions’. I have long pulled symbolism and understanding from the unseen world, and I had a desire to share this with others in a meaningful way. This intimate offering is a powerful blend of holding space for others, while honoring their gifts and experiences through the creation of a watercolor goddess, painted live in their presence. In these 60 minute 1:1 sessions, we explore the paths they have journeyed, reflecting on the challenges, strengths and intentions with which they walk forward. We sit together as I paint their goddess and what emerges is a watercolor painting that speaks directly of their sacred being. Read more>>

JIagengq Guo

1. Projects that create social infrastructure.
2. Projects that provide meaningful critiques of the predominant values of society.
3. Projects that are simply beautiful

These three aspects motivate my everyday work and life. I’ve been fortunate to work on projects such as SPARC Kips Bay at Dattner Architects (which I’m currently working on), Mechanical Time and Body Time at the University of Minnesota, The Orphan Heat at Columbia University GSAPP with Dean Andres Jaque, and a counterculture paper I wrote with Professor Mary McLeod. These experiences have shaped my thinking and made me who I am. Read more>>

Aimee McGuire

Every project I work on, I find some meaning in. Sometimes the material resonates with me on a deep personal level. Perhaps booking that job at that time was meaningful because I was losing steam and considering giving up. Or I meet someone on a job that is really meaningful too. I think everything that comes to us has a purpose. Read more>>

King Golden

The most meaningful project would probably be my first independent album titled “everything golden”. This album defines who i am the struggles i faced and how I’ve over came them. The ultimate story of perseverance. From parting ways from the label that helped me find my niche and my sound. To going through a divorce and custody battles. To losing jobs and family members. All to place it in my craft and persevere through it all. To be able to tell my story to give life and light in someone else’s. And to give thanks to the most high god that through Jesus christ all things are possible. I’ve learned so much about my faith and the strength that God placed within me through these times in able to come up with this album. Read more>>

Michael Bolger

Busking (playing music on the street) has been a constant inspiration for my musical career. I’ve turned to busking during to earn extra money, network, and practice. I even busk for therapy!

During the pandemic, I had a profound reason to busk for therapeutic reasons: my ex wife was diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer in Fall 2020. We have a child together. As the pandemic shifted the musical economy drastically, I capitalized on my busking act as a source of employment and a healthy source of therapy during that stressful time. Read more>>

Brendan Schroeder

The most meaningful project I have done so far is playing a role with the character having autism. I was diagnosed with autism when I was 13 months old. I had 6 plus years of intense therapy to get to where I am at now. I wanted to get into acting because my dream was to be on tv. The first big role I booked was on Dhar Mann playing “Sam” who was on the spectrum. The role portrayed Sam who everyone thought because he had autism wasn’t smart or good at sports. But once he was given the opportunity to show his skills everyone realized autism doesn’t stop him from doing anything he wants. Read more>>

Nick Thompson

Without a doubt, my most meaningful project is the feature film I’m currently developing, Decade. Unlike my last film Skagit, an experimental horror film, this is much more realistic and based closely on the lives of me and my friends after we graduated high school.

The movie begins in Seattle in 2010, and follows three childhood friends as they break, rebuild and forsake their bonds across ten years of romantic and existential disillusion, always trying to flee the party or find one. Read more>> 

Alima Botasheva

One of the most meaningful projects I have worked on is my collection of handcrafted ostrich feather handbags, which are now exclusively showcased in flagship Ralph Lauren stores and sell for $1,900 to $2,600 each. This project represents years of dedication to craftsmanship, historical techniques, and the revival of timeless elegance in fashion accessories. Read more>>

Max Wohlwend

At Alpine Supply Chain Solutions, we specialize in projects that solve customer challenges and drive operational efficiency. However, the work becomes truly meaningful when we take on projects that extend their impact beyond the companies that hire us. A prime example of this is our collaborations with SF-Marin Food Bank and the Greater Boston Food Bank. Read more>>

Nandan Pemmaraju

Several projects have shaped my journey as a designer, but more than that, the people, experiences, and unexpected turns along the way have made it truly meaningful.

PIVOT, the modular furniture design system I co-founded with Saloni Bedi—an incredible and humble designer—was born out of a deep-rooted desire to tackle global college furniture waste. Being selected by MIT Venture Mentoring Services was a proud moment, not just for the recognition but because it validated the potential of a long-lost idea I had first explored during my time at ArtCenter. This project gave me the courage to work with some truly inspiring minds, like Bala Ramamurthy, an ex-SpaceX flight safety director, and Nike’s retail design lead, Bridgette Hyde. Read more>>