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?

Amalia Fleming

On November 4th, I am releasing my first 5 song EP “Shifting States.” This project transformed my songwriting, allowing me to explore some deep conflicts in my past experiences and relationships. This last Summer, I recorded and produced the songs in my home studio in California with my long-time collaborator and multi-instrumentalist, Alec West. I listed the tracks in the order I wrote and recorded each song so that my listeners could follow my emotional evolution during the biggest two years of my life. Read more>>

Rachel Gallagher

There are many projects that I have had the honor to work on, which hold importance to me. Of these I would rank memorial portraits at the top. Any time I am asked to create a portrait, it’s special of course. However, I take it as the highest honor when a client requests to have a painting or drawing done of a loved one who has passed on. That is an immense amount of trust to be laid on an artist, and not something to be taken lightly. Memorialization projects are where I see art taking on an entirely new purpose. One of preservation and remembrance of life. Read more>>

Joesph Erdossy

The most meaningful project I am working on is preserving and sharing the history of a local railroad and a industrial park. The project started back in the summer of 2019 when I was curious of what railroad was serving the local industries. Once I found out that it was Canton railroad I tried to find information about them unfortunately there was next to no information about them online. Read more>>

Nicholas Buamah

I recently starred in my very own TV show project called Nick’s House. I took my love for writing books and channeled it into writing tv show scripts. This was very meaningful to me because at 11 years old I am the creator, executive producer and star of a television series made for network TV. Nick’s House idea came about when I was interviewed on a talk show. The host had suggested that we create a 5-minute movie together. Read more>>

Faustine Lavie

All the projects that I do are meaningful to me, but I believe the most meaningful one was starting my own dance collective and choreograph my own pieces. It’s an adventure that started during the pandemic and allow me to really find my own voice and style in dance. I love exploring different aspects of choreographing, while also putting strong meanings behind movements. Read more>>

Jamaica Johnson

Throughout my high school years, which I would say is the time I was indulged in my art and using my art as a tool to serve advocacy for black youth, and the oppression of black people. It was always a concern in my mind and a weight that pulled the stings of my heart. The most pivotal moment in my life was my freshman year. Attending Pittsburgh CAPA, a performing arts school in my city, notorious not only for its strength of arts but its education of academics as well. Read more>>

Kimberly Holmes

The fog of fear. We all want to make to make it to the bright side. That commitment to end this internal conflict of striving to know what is best for me, what is going to be the positive benefit for myself and others. I was standing in my bedroom staring out the dusty window like I usually did when I felt a spark coming on. I should dust this window I thought… Or maybe I should never look out this window again feeling like this. This unknowing tingle… the questions. I realized that I never do what my heart wants to. And then it happened… Read more>>

Ra Jikotea Niaku’no Ruiz Leon

All of the projects I work on are meaningful to me, but my most recent one was releasing my first single “Idia Wadi”. It is sung in the Hiwatahia-Taino language. This Indigenous language is part of a language reconstruction and revitalization effort by the Higuayagua Taino tribe, which I am a member of. I am also a member of the language team. The song has received alot of positive feed back from my community so it makes me so happy and grateful to have their support. Speaking our Indigenous languages is so important and it makes me so happy to be making music in my language. Read more>>

Liz Floyd

Just recently I had the opportunity to work on a really fun project with Margie Sutton, owner of FLY Modern Apparel in Summerville. Margie has been a longtime supporter of my work, and FLY was the first store to carry my jewelry – making this project very special to me. Twice a year (Spring & Summer), Margie orchestrates an amazing runway show featuring the upcoming season’s fashions that she will feature in store. Read more>>

Jessica Horne

My first book, Tia’s Tingles became my most meaningful project. Creating my main character Tia brought about a meaning for my writing that surpassed previous projects. My writing now has a purpose to the world and to the part of society that I feel most passionate about. Tia’s Tingles was my first contribution to both of my fields. Read more>>

Nija Woods

Currently I am working on a series that highlights a caregiver’s emotions. Each piece acknowledges a particular emotion then redirects those feelings by using color psychology; unlike most of my other works which intensify the emotion. The goal of this series is to bring awareness of these emotions. Acknowledging that they are valid and very much allowed. It is so important to show yourself grace when carrying this title. Read more>>

Barbara Mosher

I currently am in the midst of my most meaningful project to date. Today The world is so divided and there is an emotional toll all around. From lockdowns, politics, financial stress to war, ramifications are felt by everyone. The project looks at 5 major categories and their underlying subcategories, to find commonality among us, resulting in what is called ‘common ground’. This project is important to me personally at this time as I feel we need to document, via art, how connected we all are in this human condition. Read more>>

Caitlin McCall

Most recently my artistic style has had a rather significant shift. I like to think I have a diverse aesthetic, but typically my paintings and sculptures are a combination of bright, sarcastic images mixed with recycled materials. Last winter I was in a real creative rut; there was one painting in particular that I couldn’t seem to finish. It began as a realistic scene of five female figures in a 1950’s office. I painted over the 3′ x 4′ painting at least four times. Read more>>

Dennis Negrin

Deciding to take the plunge and create our own house show network has been incredibly rewarding. I’ve always craved community, and admired individual artists for their tenacity, talent and passions. So when we had the idea to create a space for each other in our community, it just kind of made sense. You have to build the community you crave and invite others in, we’ve learned that if you just wait for someone else to build it, it might never happen. Read more>>

Carina Tenaglia

During the summer of 2020, a period of significant political unrest stemming from instances of police brutality including but not limited to Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and others, I struggled to process the current events taking place, and reconcile my own hurt and confusion for situation that wasn’t a struggle I have personally experienced, but one that felt very heavy and intertwined into everything going on in America. Read more>>

Brian Skalak

When it comes to meaningful projects, I think the ones that stand out most are where I’d built something from scratch and helped others to be able to show their work in new and unique ways as well. A few years into my exploration into projection, light and digital art forms, I realized that there weren’t any real outlets for showing these types of work. Traditional galleries are looking for physical pieces that need to have a price tag – while myself, and others, wanted to build experiences that people could see, touch, feel, and interact with – without any real means of “buying” the piece in most cases. Read more>>

Evan Bieber

The most meaningful project that I’ve ever worked on is my upcoming album Maybe I Thought About You Once. All of the songs are important to me and I feel like I’ve really grown as a songwriter and musician. This concept of the album was actually inspired by Taylor Swift’s album folklore. I loved that every song was a different story and from the point of view of various characters. I found it easier and more freeing to write from the perspective of someone else, while also putting my own experiences in the songs as well. Read more>>

Gemini DaPoet

This is a hard question because all my projects are near and dear to my heart because, I intentionally strive for all of my projects to inspire and motivate. But, if I had to pick I would say the free Summer Poetry Workshop with the Diatribe that we brought to Muskegon Heights for the first time in 2021 and we did our second successful year this past summer. About two years ago I was presented with the opportunity to join the amazing Diatribe of Grand Rapids. This invite came at a point in my career where I felt I wasn’t making the impact I desired and I had even contemplated taking a hiatus. It was truly the retightening of the flame I needed. Read more>>

Tracy Wilson

I have this friend, and really she’s my muse. She always asked me to do some thing for her art wise, that necessitate me stepping way outside of my comfort zone. Early this year she sent me a shot from someone’s Pinterest, of a Geode piece of art, and asked me if I would please make one of these for her. I had often seen these pieces and been very interested in learning to do them because I love crystals and glass and glitters… I’m kind of like a magpie in that respect. I told her that I would look around and see what I could come up with. So where did I go? YouTube University… Read more>>

Tessa York

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on to date was partnering with Send Chinatown Love, an incredible nonprofit whose mission is to create a digital community for New York’s Chinatown restaurants by creating support and assistance to combat ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. The piece featured matchbooks of their many merchants and 100% of the proceeds were donated to these businesses in need. Read more>>

Ali Woerner

Years ago, one of my parents’ best friends was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. He took a dance class specifically for those living with PD and loved it. I got a call from him shortly after asking me to figure out how to offer a class near us such as the one he took. I found I could be trained in Dance for PD in Brooklyn, NY through Mark Morris’s Dance for PD program. I received a grant, flew to NY, got trained, met with the Michigan Parkinson Foundation and Oakland University who agreed to help publicize and allow a free class on campus once a month. Read more>>

Ashlee Bankz

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is the one I’m currently working on now titled, “Misery Loves Company.” I’ve been working on this project for a while and didn’t realize it until I started healing. This project is meaningful to me because it reflects the current chapter of my life im in. This project is deeper than just music. It’s me facing my pain, trauma, accepting change, becoming more aware of my energy, surroundings, and welcoming growth. This project is unapologetically me. Read more>>

Austin McMains

I have this ridiculously talented friend @claramcgowan who has the most ethereal poems you’ve ever read. If you’ve never heard of her you have to check out her stuff. While on music video set, we were talking about fusing our creative passions (her poetry & my photography) into one project and she told me she had an entire manuscript already written for an unpublished poetry book from 2018. She gave me access to it and the rest was history! I’m excited for people to finally read it, the book comes out November 4th of this year and is called “THIS IS ALL I HAVE TO GIVE YOU” Read more>>

Carmen Grayson

The most meaningful projects that I have worked on are during the pandemic setting up shelter-in-place sites for the homeless and the underserved populations in San Francisco. The most recent project event that I participated in was the Jackie Robinson Celebrity Game honorary game held at UCLA on July 17, 2022, powered by Bumpbox and Barbara Sanchez of Elegant PR. Jackie Robinson’s impact on society is remarkable and immeasurable. Read more>>

Erin Palmer

One of the most meaningful projects I’ve worked on so far was working with a non-profit called Help 4 HD. Help 4 HD’s mission is to educate the world about Huntington’s disease and Juvenile Huntington’s disease. They serve the HD community and provide information, education, and resources. I was an honored to join them for an evening in Nashville. Families from across the country came to fellowship together. Read more>>

Carly Frei

I have had the honor of creating book art decorations for a few weddings and one in particular stands out as incredibly meaningful. The bride’s grandmother had recently passed away and was looking for a way to honor and remember her grandmother on her wedding day. They both shared a love of books and the bride asked if I could use some of her grandmother’s books to create flowers for her wedding. She decided she wanted some hair clips made with book paper flowers on them. Read more>>

Sabrina Powell

This book which is titled Letters To An Incarcerated Sista, I came up with this during the pandemic while I was looking at quotes on Pinterest and I just wrote one down and added my thoughts to it and I stopped for a while and got invited to the jail I was in, to speak on Mother’s Day weekend and I thought about when I was incarcerated how I would write ( I wrote before going to jail as well) but when your incarcerated you have to have an outlet and I just got the ladies some journals and put what I had wrote in them and they really loved it so I decided after being told by my counselor that you should write a book (and I was already thinking about it ) and when I went back for Christmas in 2021 the ladies asked did I bring them a journal just like the last ones, Read more>>

Amarachi Odinma

The most meaningful project that I have worked on, is my current project. It’s called “After Happily Ever After’ on BET network. This project has allowed me to express the realest, most authentic version of myself. It is a reality show about exes finding a new love for their past partner. I am one of the exes, who has gone through a recent divorce. It took a lot of digging deep and soul searching to allow my uninhibited emotions to show on television. I can speak for many projects that I have done, but those portrayed a character, a persona. However, this time, I was able to express my authentic personality. Read more>>

Surekha Surendranathan

I used to doodle a lot with black ink and never work with colors especially as a teenager. I was angsty and moody teenager who was plus size and dark-skinned in a country obsessed with beauty standards. When I moved to the US, I met very similar people who used their creativity as a form of expression. I started to make a lot of body inclusivity and feminism- based art and it was an amazing outlet. I feel very comfortable with my body and myself now and a huge chunk of it was due to a freedom to express. Read more>>

Caney Hummon

It’s hard to pick a single project as the most meaningful when there have been several that come to mind and meant the world to my clients and to me at the time. When a good friend of mine tragically lost his sister and asked me to draw a graphite portrait to give to his parents, it about ripped my heart out. Fairly recently, one of my mom’s best friends was diagnosed with cancer and another close friend of theirs commissioned me to make a painting based on the dream and poetic words of the sick friend, to give her strength in her time of need. Read more>>

Lucie Cizmarova

I have been engaged in amateur photography for several years. Now I work at a rescue and rehabilitation centre for slow lorises in Sumatra led by The Kukang Rescue Program organization where I also take photos of everyday activities underway in the centre. Thanks to slow lorises, I have stood face to face to the reality of illegal wildlife trade which is why I decided to address this issue. My wining photos maps the long-term work of Czech zoologists and animal conservationists together with the Indonesian team in the north of the island of Sumatra, where the program for the protection of slow lorises was created. Read more>>

Lucas Fischhaber

I have embarked on a journey that I never would have thought would be my road to take. I have stepped out in faith to climb a mountain that, up until a few years ago, was higher than I thought I could ever go. Before finding myself on a path of authoring this young adult fantasy epic, I had grown up to be a nuclear engineer who did everything I could to avoid English class. Writing would be the last thing I would ever do. Graduating from West Point, I served in the army and leaned into my engineering degree enjoying the comforts of math and sciences.. However, that isn’t my whole story. Read more>>

Christine Holton

Corpus Chromatic- The Anatomy of the Human Body Paintings, Drawings and Mixed Media 2021-present day In the Fall of 2021, I received a call to exhibit my paintings at the Brown Gallery at Duke University. Somebody had seen my paintings of human anatomy in bright, bold colors and recommended them. Read more>>

100 Rome

My most meaningful project right now would be my 14 song project I dropped called Dabi. It is a completely solo album/project I wanted to really introduce people to me & give them a little taste of what’s to come with my music. Literally every song speaks to a mood or vibe. Especially with my Melodies & how I’m able to bring a different dynamic to the beat & the song. Read more>>

Annie Ruth

The most meaningful project that I’ve worked on was creating art for a child care center, while the builders were still building the facility. During the 1990’s the was an architect who attended church in the neighborhood that I live in. He knew right away that he wanted me to create the art for this new and innovative child care facility. I was always volunteering in my community so I wasn’t a stranger to community engagement. Read more>>

Richard South

We are currently filming and appearing on the “Hallelujah Time” telecast. This program was launched in 2010 by Richard South Ministries and features the “Power Singers” ministry team, Hallelujah Time Choir, and band. This is an uplifting and encouraging thirty minutes weekly for viewers across the nation. Read more>>

Kristen Wheeler

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is doing iconography – paintings of the saints and holy figures – and turning it into a ministry, By February 2020 I had been studying traditional iconography for a while; its history, techniques, and prayer practice. I visited a small town that winter where I went to a Greek Orthodox church that had an icon shop next to it and spent several hours in awe of the colorful art and the little wooden icons. Read more>>

Ann Haley

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on thus far was my most recent exhibition; a two person show titled “HEAVY METAL; heartburn” with another artist, Chloe Harrison-Ach which opened at The Front Gallery in New Orleans, LA this past August. My contribution to the show was “HEAVY METAL,” which was a series of 7 paintings and two installations, that mirror what is left after peeling back the layers of healing physical and emotional trauma. Read more>>

Kyrsten Roseman

We have been a duo for ten years and in that amount of time it has been truly an uphill battle to record and release music. It was either financial difficulty that would hold us back or lack of finding like-minded producers that really understand and grasped our vision. From 2012 until the present time, we had only released one project. In 2014 we released a full length, fully produced album of ten original songs and we had high hopes for it. Read more>>

Brigitte Boulay

TD Place & the Glebe BIA in Ottawa, Canada did a call to artists for an art installation entitled “Season of Growth”. The cubes were to represent coming back to society and what that represented to us. – This piece entitled “Together we bloom”, was created to represent community. As we faced COVID, I witnessed so much kindness, generosity and support in our community that it humbled me. Read more>>

Coleen Hebert

The most meaningful projects I work on are always custom designs. Customers will send in their wedding flowers or funeral flowers to me to create special pieces to remember their special day or loved ones. It is always fun getting to collaborate with them to create a design around their specific flowers. Read more>>

Paul Askew

The most meaningful project that I have worked on has been my latest album The Book Of Paul. The backstory behind my album is the trials and tribulations of my life. I overcame the things that were meant to destroy me and for that I am grateful. Read more>>

Paul Niehaus

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on has been my work with St. Louis Soul Legend Roland Johnson. Roland is 74, and the first music we released with him was back in 2016 when he was 68. It was his first original music ever published in his entire career, a fact we are most proud of. To have the opportunity to work with a Living Legend at the top of his game was such a blessing. We still feel like our best work with Roland is still ahead of us, despite the health challenges he’s been going through the last couple years. Read more>>