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?

Alex Ippolito

The most meaningful project I’ve ever worked on is my personal annual Russtober drawing challenge, where I make one drawing a day based on a word list of drawing prompts. I’ve done this every October for the past five years. The project is named after my original character I created named Russ. Read more >>>

Vicente Garcia

For me, Glimmer has been one of the most meaningful projects I’ve ever worked on for many reasons. At its core, the film is about a “glimmer” — a term that describes the opposite of a trigger. A glimmer is a moment of connection, joy, or transformation that reminds us of who we are and what gives our lives meaning. Read more >>>

Linus Manchester

Carving out time for passion projects has been a consistent focus throughout my freelance journey. I love working with clients and helping to make my peers’ projects happen, but what truly keeps me fulfilled is pursuing and telling my own stories. One of those stories sticks out as a particularly meaningful project. Read more >>>

Christy Knudson

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on would have to be from the summer of this year. I packed myself, my gaffer, and every single piece of equipment I could fit into my sedan and drove 14 hours out to Colorado to shoot my first indie feature film. Read more >>>

N.D. Byma

I’ve been very fortunate to have worked on a lot of projects through the years. I have 15 current physical releases of my own, but I’ve also created a comic series and helped other authors bring their projects to life. As far as which one was most meaningful, that’s a tough question. Read more >>>

Yian Lin

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is Versita, an assistive drawing aid designed for people living with Cerebral Palsy. This project represents everything I believe design should be: functional, empathetic, and genuinely life changing. The backstory starts when I was exploring disability and assistive design. Read more >>>

Yuko Fukushima

One of the most meaningful projects I’ve worked on recently was my collaboration with The Light Committee on a promotional campaign. It wasn’t just modeling — the studio had recently relocated, and the promo video involved creating actor headshots and interview shots. Being on set gave me firsthand experience of professional production, and I learned so much about teamwork, timing, and capturing the perfect shot. Read more >>>

Patty Blue Hayes

When I was growing up, there were a lot of stressful and emotionally intense scenarios playing out in my family. In 5th and 6th grade I’d write my feelings in my diary and write short stories as a way to express myself. It was at that age, for some reason, I knew that I wanted to write a book that would help ‘grownups’. Read more >>>

Noe Kuremoto

PROJECT DOGU LADIES A talisman for the history she makes. Interviewer: So, Noe — Dogu Ladies. What’s the story behind them? Noe: It really started with me thinking about how we talk about women, ambition, and motherhood. For women like us — who’ve built careers, studied hard, travelled — motherhood almost feels like a plot twist. Read more >>>

Ssu-ya Hsiung

During my journey in metal craft, I often found that the intricate and repetitive processes gradually wore away my initial passion for creation. This experience led me to question myself — Why do I create? What is the true purpose of my art? Read more >>>

Denise Jones Adler

The most fulfilling aspect of founding Pictor Gallery, a collective, artist-run space in May 2021, has been fostering a community where artists support and inspire one another. The shared commitment to collaboration and mutual growth has allowed the gallery to flourish as a platform for diverse voices, creativity, and dialogue. Read more >>>

Ye’ela Wilschanski

I currently have a solo exhibition at the Union Gallery, Wagner College: Luteal Phase At Sunset. The quilt is stretched on the gallery’s ceiling. On the floor a mat invites visitors to take their shoes off, lie down and look up at the quilt horizontally. The 19.6 x 19.6 feet quilt’s pattern are inspired by the sunset and fall foliage. Read more >>>

Soumya Wagle

One of the most meaningful projects I worked on is the first book I designed. It’s a children’s book called “The Adventure of Your Feelings” and follows the story of an ice-cream cone, Scoop. It goes on a roller coaster ride, and throughout the ride, it experiences a range of emotions, including fear, surprise, joy, and excitement. Read more >>>

Zhu Gaocanyue

When principles are framed and generalized as knowledge, how do we view everything when the unknown remains infinite? In The South Is Infinite Yet Finite, I try to visualize my perplexity and thoughts regarding understanding binary and hierarchical systems of knowledge production. I arrived in the United States in the summer of 2023. My obsession with formations of knowledge materialized into a packed Google Calendar. Read more >>>

André Ramos-Woodard

Hmm.. well, I guess the most meaningful project I’ve ever worked on a project called ‘a mediocre-ass nigga’. It’s a project that I started in graduate school when I was kind of at my lowest. Read more >>>

Lily Li

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is my fine art series Northbound. It began with a question that has never left me: is nationality real, or just a convenient lie? In this series, I built a fictional space called Yuliu Palace—a place that feels both luxurious and decayed, suspended between past and present. Read more >>>

Victor Sargissian

The most meaningful project I’ve been a part of is our ongoing effort with Soul Infusion Sessions. Read more >>>

Catrina Higgs

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is Honest & Free Studio. I’m a mother and an artist living in rural Kentucky, and for years I felt that constant pull between wanting to raise my kids with creativity at the center and also needing a place where I could actually show up as an artist. Out here, there aren’t a lot of spaces that do either — let alone both. Read more >>>

Morgan Hamilton-Lee

2024 was a big year for me. It was the year that I decided to jump into freelancing, trying to be a Producer and work in the creative industry in almost any aspect I could. Read more >>>

Maya Rosalia

“Up Down & Around” has been one of the most meaningful projects I’ve created recently. The song was born in an unexpected moment: I was at the piano with someone close to me, listening to an R&B track on a winter night. Read more >>>

Suzan Shutan

The first project was in 2014 when I was invited by Curator and filmmaker Jacek Malinowski to Warsaw Poland to create an installation at Zacheta National Gallery of Art. From the outside the museum was historic and grand. Read more >>>