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?

Deejay Mixx

As a deejay (@DjMixx305), one of the most meaningful projects I have worked on to date has been the coordination and execution of my event series, The Potion. This event series fuses a Caribbean dance party, an independent vendor market and a live music showcase from selected local artists. Read more>>

Brooke Costello

I came to write and illustrate Little Bear, Big Feelings during a season when the little things suddenly mattered most. After my youngest child, my daughter, was diagnosed with autism, our world gently shifted. We stepped into a new space—one filled with big feelings, quiet moments, and a deeper kind of listening. Read more>>

Deuandra Brown

My feature film Temps Figé was especially meaningful to me because I literally traveled the world to film it. Every location shaped the story in a real way, and each moment I captured could never be recreated. The journey pushed me creatively and personally, allowing me to grow not just as a filmmaker, but as a global storyteller. Read more>>

Keldamuzik Diva

One of the most meaningful projects I’ve worked on is **Diva Talk Tonite**, because it represents so much more than a show — it represents my journey, my voice, and my purpose. The idea came from years of being in the industry and realizing how many artists, creatives, and entrepreneurs don’t get the space to tell their real stories. Read more>>

Lorin Lee

Lately, I have poured my heart into a wide range of creative projects, from music and film to social media storytelling and volunteer work. While each has shaped me in different ways, two stand closest to my heart: my debut EP and the launch of my creative marketing agency, both set to release this year. Read more>>

John Babcock

Two projects come to mind when I’m asked about meaningful projects. First, ‘Independent: John Cassavetes & The Birth of American Independent Film’. It’s my first full-length play. I had written sketches, short plays, and copy before, but never an hour and 15 minute play. It was also meaningful because it was about an actual person: filmmaker John Cassavetes. Read more>>

Svitlana Bortnik

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is my children’s book series Little Fox Luka and the Key Through Time. Across the Pages of American History — and the broader creative world built around it. I created Luka as a character children could identify with. He is not a distant hero or a perfect guide. He is curious, sometimes unsure, learning as he goes. Read more>>

Rick Dixon

My first book- Embers & Altars started as a daily writing discipline with a completely different purpose. It started as something small and private, done wherever life happened. Over time, it stopped feeling like a task and started becoming a place of formation. Read more>>

Nathan Griffin

My most meaningful project wasn’t something I set out to create, rather it was something I felt compelled to protect. In October 2025, our County Mayor proposed lifting federal protections on more than 500 acres of Enterprise South Nature Park, the largest public park in our area and one of the reasons my wife and I moved to Chattanooga, TN. Read more>>

Nika Urban

That’s a tough one because there have been so many. Tattooing itself is meaningful to me each time, regardless of what it is that I’m tattooing. It’s a unique and sacred exchange. I’ll spare my ramblings on that for now! I remember one particular session when I tattooed a memorial piece on someone. Read more>>

Jennifer Dihel

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on isn’t a singular moment, but rather each and every wedding I’ve been honored to be a part of. At every celebration, I’m deeply aware that I’m being entrusted with celebrating something sacred. Read more>>

Fanni Somogyi

One of my most meaningful projects I’ve worked on recently is a public sculpture created during a two-month residency at the Franconia Sculpture Park in the summer of 2025. I built a large-scale steel and copper work that now lives in the park’s prairie, and the project felt like a convergence of many threads in my practice. Read more>>

Maggy Simon

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is the Dream Quartet, a group I co-founded alongside three incredible musicians and friends out of desire to reimagine what a string quartet could be and who it could be for. Read more>>

LadyVee DaPoet

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on as an open mic variety show curator, hostess and performer would have to be the ‘Upscale Expressions: Giving Back in Style’ event. It is a formal attire show that allows independent performing artists to donate money or items to nonprofits. Read more>>

Jose Peña

It would have to be the documentary i directed ‘Where’s My Inheritance?’. I was just quitting my corporate job at the time, it was the tail end of 2017 – skip one month ahead to January 2018 and i was on a plane with a small film crew to Guyana to film our very first feature documentary. Read more>>

Valencia

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is my recent collection, The Primordial Blade. It was born from imagining womanhood in the Cenozoic era. An age of instinct, dominance, and raw survival. I wanted to explore a world where the wild doesn’t intimidate the feminine figure, but instead acknowledges her power. Read more>>

Kathy Dupuy

We are currently in the process of building a performing arts center with 430 seats to serve the Austin creative community! There is a huge lack of venue space in Austin, and we ourselves have struggled for years to find places to have our recitals, Nutcracker performances, and company shows. Read more>>

Jeewon Kim

Since moving to the U.S., I’ve created a lot of work about my identity as a foreigner, immigrant, and Korean, and Adapter Irregular is a typeface project related to that theme. The U.S. has different plug shapes, so I brought a lot of adapters, known as ‘pig noses,’ from Korea. Read more>>

Sierra Coleman

Hiiii! Sooo the most meaningful project that I’ve worked on thus far would have to be my short film “Not Gone Fail”. It’s basically about my life and how everything came crashing down at once, I literally lost everything from my home, vehicle, job all in a short period of time. Read more>>

Cas Richey

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is honestly what I do every day. I’m a curly hair specialist, and that has been incredibly impactful for me. I have curly hair myself, so I’ve gone through the same struggles my clients have. Bad haircuts, not knowing what to do with it, straightening it every day. Read more>>

Giana Abreu-Christopher

The most meaningful project I have worked on so far was being a part of the Madras Symposium held in London October of 2024. I was invited by the University of Edinburgh to represent my madras brand and share the history of madras in the Caribbean and its cultural uses specifically in the Virgin Islands. Read more>>

Saladin Allah

I cannot say that there is a project that I’ve worked on that is the most meaningful to me. All of the projects that I have done, and continue to do, are meaningful. Read more>>

Carla Contreras

Every project I work on holds meaning in its own way, but one that feels especially close to my heart was inaugurated just this past January 2026 at the Woodruff Arts Center. Read more>>

Aliyah Garza

One of the most meaningful projects I’ve worked on was a mural created for a girls’ shelter in Belize. I had the opportunity to create this mural with a public art group named ‘Freewalls’. The space supports young girls who have experienced instability and trauma, so it was important that the artwork felt empowering rather than decorative. Read more>>

Tina (Katharina) Siemens

After becoming a wife, mom and grandma, I started my writing career, currently Auther of three of my own books and co-author of two, because of my love of history. I dreamt for 20 years of opening up a museum. That dream came true in 2023 when I was able to open the doors to the West Texas Living Heritage Museum. Read more>>

Ruth Hertz Weber

Right now the most meaningful project I am working on is a Carnegie Hall tour that I will be leading the San Diego Jewish Men’s Choir on in just 2 weeks! The non-profit choir is a made up of a diverse group of 25 men from over 8 different countries, and with an age range of 28-94 years of age. Read more>>

Kevin Bruinsma

We got a call from the Down Syndrome Association Northwest Indiana. They were looking for some video production work as part of an awareness campaign. I was invited to attend one of their craft nights at their “Friendship Center” in Schererville, IN to experience who the DSANWI is and get a better understanding about the down syndrome community. I walked in as a complete stranger. Read more>>

Chanya Vitayakul

The most meaningful project I’ve made is a work titled Everything I Would’ve Taught My Now Aborted Child. The piece is a long silk organza scroll printed with excerpts from my personal journals, suspended so that viewers have to physically walk alongside it to read. The text is quiet, fragmented, sometimes illegible. Read more>>

Antino Art

I’ve always been more ronin than Samurai. In other words, I work solo. My pen is the sword I live by — whether at my 9-to-5 writing ad copy for colleges and universities, or as a poet writing for inner peace. That all changed in 2025. Read more>>

Georgiann Honey

A project with a top client of mine, LifePlus, has been the most meaningful project I’ve worked on so far, and it came at a really specific moment in my career. For years, I’d been intentionally building my portfolio toward wellness—brands that promote healthy habits, thoughtful routines, and a more grounded way of living—because that’s the kind of work I genuinely want to be surrounded by. I kept saying I wanted to collaborate with companies that felt aligned, not just aesthetically, but in values and mission too. Read more>>