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?

Madison Mitchell

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is my film UNDER HER SKIN. It’s a psychological drama and horror short that explores the internal battle many young Black women experience when navigating Eurocentric beauty standards and the constant pressure to be “enough” in a world that was never designed with them in mind. Read More>>

Yossett Daniels

One of my first clients was with a woman who attended my church. She asked me to take photos of her family as a gift to her husband. It was so sweet because she was only my second paying client and at the time I didn’t know she would pass away a little over a year later. Read More>>

IAlejandro Gomez

First, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to participate in this interview. Some of the most meaningful projects I had were; Nidia Barajas Mexican singer-songwriter For her upcoming projects. Gina Vallejo Mexican-American model from San Diego. We had worked on previous projects. Michoacán cultural roots. I wanted to represent my mother’s culture of Michoacan in Tijuana, Mexico. Read More>>

The Abbey Stories

For both of us, the project that changed everything was The Fix. We started out in the industry as actors, and for a long time that was our entire world. But we reached a point where we wanted to stop waiting to be given opportunities and start creating them ourselves. Read More>>

Karl Hibbert

I recently wrapped up merchandising ‘GOD DOES LIKE PARADISE’ tour for Young Nudy, alongside JID – It’s my 6th tour with Young Nudy in 9 years and finally feel as though I’ve fully emersed myself in the fashion*creative pocket. Read More>>

Paria Peyravi

In recent years, I have been working on digital book-reading projects involving augmented reality to ask readers to participate and become a part of the narrative through their responses in an arts-based study. This way, I add layers of meaning to storybooks through augmented reality design and applications, expanding the stories and images beyond printed illustrations. Read More>>

Chesley Allen

The Deacon Board! The Deacon Board is a band I started in 2019 for myself and I’m trying to take it to the next level! Read More>>

Bobbi Cool

My most meaningful is traveling the world as a graduate student and able to capture the memories in a professional and creative setting all in to an Album. This type of duality is consistent with being ‘Cool’. These accomplishments are the catalyst for the those who are pursuing a higher levels in their respective industries. Read More>>

Lewis Park

One of the most meaningful projects I’ve ever worked on is the “TOO LATE?” project with my music partner, producer Dollarsignpark. I’m finishing it up soon and planning to release it in a couple months. This project is really meaningful to me because I started to work on it to try to free myself and survive one of my darkest times. Read More>>

Rose Lederer

I’m actually in the middle of working on the most meaningful project I’ve ever done. It’s also the scariest project I’ve ever done. I’ve written a number of songs talking about my traumatic experiences with my ex, abortion, and sexual assault, as well as the sexual assault I experienced as a child, but I never released these songs. Read More>>

Ali Lazik

My Masters thesis exhibition, “Bandaid Pink”, was a considerably vulnerable project. I explored different mediums, pushing past my typical paintings and applying impasto style to sculpture, sculptural elements back to 2D, and was able to form interactive moments throughout. “Bandaid Pink” was a pastel world full of poetry, codes, and textures that seduced viewers in and tempted to touch.  Read More>>

Julianne Cerreta

“This is Ballet: an exploration of ballet, identity, and power” was my MFA choreographic thesis at The University of Roehampton. The work premiered in May 2024 at the Michaelis Theatre in London, and excerpts have now been performed in New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. Read More>>

Waverly Lucas

The most meaningful and important project that I worked on and created was and is The Leopard Tale. As the signature full-length African ballet it tells a vibrant and vivid story of mankind’s coexistence with nature and wildlife. Read More>>

Hwayoung Shon

One of the most meaningful projects I’ve worked on was a collaboration with research centers in the UK and Germany, involving composing and performing alongside field recordings of Antarctic glacier collisions. This project was not a typical concert performance; it was an exploration of how to truly listen to nature. Read More>>

Kharissa Love

My ‘Elixir of Love’ Substack has been the most meaningful project I’ve worked on. This Substack started back in December 2023. I had already started another Substack platform called Table #666, which is a fictional creative writing platform written in the perspective of myself hosting the reader to sit and connect with me. Read More>>

Karen Christians

Jewelry can be a vessel for far more than adornment. In the right hands, it becomes a carrier of knowledge, generosity, and shared experience. Throughout my career as a metalsmith and educator, I have been fortunate to participate in many meaningful projects—founding a jewelry school, fabricating technically demanding award commissions, and teaching students to navigate the moment when technique finally clicks and understanding takes hold. Read More>>

Alix Jean-Francois

All projects have meaning, I’m not sure if any are the most meaningful. Each one helps you learn and grow. My first project, ‘Love’s Sweet Thing 2004’ had meaning as a stepping stone to expanding and learning about independent films and film festivals. Read More>>

Lenisha Metayer

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is my 1st Book , I’m self publishing next year. Taking leaps without a literary agent or publishing house isn’t for faint hearted individuals. I’m confident in each word I’ve written in ‘ From Mental Mess to Gods Best ‘ book ability to help transform the lives of each reader . Read More>>

Jorge Ramos

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on, so far, is *SOHO*, an orchestral work premiered on 2 July 2025 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) under the baton of Juya Shin. SOHO was written during a very particular moment in my life. Read More>>

Kim Carr

Today, I’m an author, farmer, photographer, and publisher creating true, nonfiction stories centered on farm animals and life around the farm. My first children’s book, Dandelion My House Chicken, introduced readers to the idea that farm animals are individuals with a ton of personality. Read More>>

Faith Roden

My creative portfolio is, overall, a mosiac of my personality, story, and self. Every project I work on, whether it’s one that is made by myself or someone else, is a reflection of my truest self. That includes all of the imperfections, mistakes I’ve made, and things I haven’t done. A lot of times, my creative works are my second chance. Read More>>

Rachel Cartwright

While I love all of our songs, ‘Prove You Wrong,’ which is currently our most played song, stands out as exceptionally meaningful. I (Rachel) was bullied several times in my life, especially in high school. Their relentless, heartless words and actions inspired the song’s lyrics. Moreover, the recording process went really smoothly. We worked with Barry Magner at ROFO Records. Read More>>

Chaeyeon Kim

One of the most meaningful projects I am currently working on is producing and performing in an AAPI-focused musical concert, taking place on January 22 at Green Room 42 in New York City. This project is significant because it allows me to share stories that have often been presented through limited perspectives, while centering authentic Asian and Asian American voices. Read More>>

Dayle McLeod

The personal documentary that I am distributing right now, The Day of my Death, about my initiation as a medicine woman in my ancestral lands of South Africa with elder African shamans has been the most meaningful project that I’ve worked on thus far. Read More>>

Joe Cunningham

I recently wrapped principal photography for a father-son drama film I wrote, produced, directed, and starred in called ‘The Sentinel.’ My son plays my son in the film and we filmed it over the course of 5 years. We shot in sequence and began when he was about 7, so much like Richard Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ he grows up over the course of the film. Read More>>

Samantha LaCroix

I just completed my most meaningful project to date which honestly feels like a cumulation of all my training, work and life experiences rolled into one. I am very happy to say that just finished post production on a feature film that is very near and dear to my heart. Read More>>

Jacob Randall

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is a shared animated universe I’ve been building for the past five years, based on characters I first started creating all the way back in first grade. Read More>>

Krishawna

The most meaningful project(s) I’ve worked on is creating music that uplifts people and represents my faith. I accepted Jesus into my life at a young age. I grew up in the church, but it wasn’t until I sought the Lord for myself that I began to really experience all of His goodness toward me. Read More>>

Maya Mackey

Co-creating spaces for marginalized people to be able to dream and conjure new futures and increase in leisure and joy as a birth right has connected me to the legacy I’d like to leave behind. Read More>>

Hranush Mashakaryan

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on was participating in the Digital Exhibition Week of Women in Art in 2023. It was my first experience stepping outside my comfort zone and presenting my work in a public, professional space. The process pushed me to reflect on my creative voice and take responsibility for how my work is perceived. Read More>>

Juan Villegas

One of the most meaningful projects I have worked on is not a single artwork, but an evolving social sculpture. ArtUs Co, which I co run with my wife Rosemary, began as a response to a lack of spaces in Austin that truly supported art that explored consciousness in a sincere and non commercial way. Read More>>

Mikayla Monnie

I work as an American Sign Language interpreter. This has put me in many different situations and areas of interpreting. I mostly work in K-12 education. It’s consistent, familiar and comfortable. I’ve been trying to grow my skills and areas of experience by working additional jobs. It’s common for interpreters to work for several companies. Read More>>

Hsuan Chung

Currently, I am working on a fine art photography series titled ‘Edge-North Atlanta Ocean’. The idea of the project is ‘time with nature.’ Since ancient times, human beings have continuously given life to land and civilization. We constantly create stories and memories in each land which has its own temperature and culture. Everything on land experiences a cycle of weathering, squeezing, and accumulating. Read More>>

Pako Pablos

One of the most meaningful projects I’ve ever worked on is the first-ever National Digital Art Contest that bears my name. The backstory is deeply personal. I grew up in a time when creativity didn’t have a clear path. Read More>>

Ashten Freeman

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is Anomaly. It’s my most personal body of work and the clearest window into who I am. People used to ask me all the time, “How can I really get to know you?” My instinct was always to say, “Listen to the music.” I’ve always been good with words, but not necessarily with saying them out loud. Read More>>

Jessica Mathis

It may be a strange way to answer, but the most meaningful project I’ve ever worked on was myself. Working on truly understanding myself and working through early life trauma allowed me to better understand the human soul, where behaviors originate from, how people think, feel and act and create from a place that resonates with others. Read More>>

Nathaniel Allenby

The most meaningful project I have worked on is the creation and publication of The Cycle of Kindness. This book emerged from an incredible journey that became a deeply personal period of reflection, life transition, and a growing awareness of how small, intentional acts of kindness can have a disproportionate impact on people’s lives. Read More>>

Travis Helms

In 2018, I was having coffee with a dear friend — a poet and highschool English teacher, who tends to approach questions of meaning from a Buddhist framework. I had recently been ordained as an Episcopal priest and received a PhD in poetry and theology from a fancy university in the UK. We were discussing our shared love of poetry, and how empty and transactional poetry readings can sometimes feel Read More>>