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?
Hannah Raye Adams
What’s the most meaningful project I’ve had the honor to work on? Last March I was found on instagram, asked to style hair for a tv show on USA NETWORK. I remember this day vividly, it was my sons 2nd birthday, we had just finished having his birthday party. I was cleaning up all the party decorations and was able to look at my phone for the first time all day. Read more>>
Leonte Stokes
The Lost Files (EP) was one of the most sentimental things I’ve ever put out , starting with the first song “My Love Interlude” was dedicated to my significant other and was a lot of true emotion I felt and feel about us and her , This project was my first and as of now my only project, it was the first time I put my all into something without asking for anything but a listen in return, Read more>>
Luke Frazier
The most meaningful work I think I’ve done so far is equally split between my work on PBS and my free children’s outreach touring. Over the last 3 years I’ve been able to create 18 original programs for PBS ranging from Opera and Musical Theater to World Music and classic hymns. Having grown up in a small town and spending my career in large urban areas I think I have a unique perspective on a broad swath of the viewing audience. Read more>>
Barbara Rocas
It’s hard to say that one singular project I’ve worked on is the ‘most’ meaningful – as an artist I strive to use my creativity to bring about new meanings and understand things through different perspectives. Much of my work revolves around art as a tool for revolution, both personal and within society. My first zine “Protomatter” focused on networking with local creatives whose work inspires me and highlighting their stories. Read more>>
Kerstin Rao
In 2021, I was commissioned to draw a sunflower bouquet as a birthday gift to celebrate the 60th birthday of a cancer survivor – a very meaningful request. The day I began the drawing, Russia invaded Ukraine. I learned that sunflowers represent peace and prosperity, so I infused my drawing with strength and good wishes for the Ukrainian people as well as for the birthday recipient. Read more>>
Chun Swae
I’m now two years into my career and out of all the opportunities i’ve had the pleasure of working on, I think the one i’m apart of now is probably the most meaningful! When I first started taking Content creation seriously and more so as a profession I noticed most projects I worked on were just for the money or for the moment that may have been trending. However the project i’m apart of currently is a brand ambassadorship with the clothing brand “Aliesha Renea”. Read more>>
Nathalie Fabri
I think that one of the most meaningful projects I have undertaken is the one called the Mission Kiss. The backstory begins during Covid, Trump was recently elected, there was a feeling of despair in my community. My art studio was in a San Francisco neighborhood called The Mission. Read more>>
Kourtnee Monroe
The most meaningful project that I have worked on has to be landing the cover of Coral Avenue Magazine. If you are a cover model then you also receive a Times Square billboard. Seeing my images and hard work advertised in NYC and in TImes square where the millions visit was so meaningful for me. Read more>>
Souls Extolled
It’s difficult to say the most meaningful project we’ve worked on between our last album MMXXII, and the Seraphic War EP. We can understand how most of you who know us would be surprised there’s any comparison, considering for MMXXII we got to work with big time producer Omar Vallejo for the first time, and we accompanied the release of the album with our first national tour. Read more>>
Zoe Liu
I recently finished an experimental animation about stories related to Asian women, for which I interviewed some women from different backgrounds and cultures. They told their stories and some of their own views on gender issues. This was a new experiment for me, and I gained a lot of unique insights. Also, I am inspired by the brave and energetic attitudes they showed in their daily lives. Read more>>
tenebrum (Tene” for short)”
In 2021, I made a resolution for this year: release a single. “A single” was a purposeful low-ball. I assumed that just getting started on a project would give me the momentum I needed to really start making music, to create a sound, to do all those things young musicians are obsessed with doing. Read more>>
Heather Kirtland
I would have to say it was creating and producing the book The Motherhood of Art with Marissa Huber. I struggled as a new mom and artist and even in 2011 that wasn’t something that was widely talked about. There was a stigma to women artists who also chose to become mothers. I felt a true identity crisis as a creative. Read more>>
Glenith Gomez
Definitely GG’s Custom Crafts has been my most meaningful project that I have worked on! Everything started some time ago in 2008 when I started attending to my current church and I received a word from God in a prayer group meeting that He deposited a huge responsibility in my hands but, I didn’t understand the message at that time. Read more>>
Raisa Nse Edjang
The most meaningful project I have worked on is “FACES” because I created and designed it to inspire, educate, and bring awareness of diversity to children. And it’s meaningful to me because it gives hope to kids in wanting to learn and for them to have the ability to express their individualism. Read more>>
Antania Jackson
In 2018, I learned that one of my favorite films was going to Broadway. Pretty Woman is a timeless classic and I could watch it everyday for the rest of my life. To obtain a media pass for a Broadway show was certainly a goal as an entertainment blogger. To have different genres of art under my belt is what I knew would classify me as a multifaceted journalist. Read more>>
Keith Carlock
It is still a work in progress. I call it a Photographic Portal Model. It has, on a low-tech photographic level, what I believe are the three basic qualities of an artificial portal:exterior cloaking, interior holodeck like photographic display and an interior photographic hologram display within the photographic holodeck. All of these three attributes can be translated into a high-tech application. Read more>>
Slayla The Purpose
I actually just released my debut EP entitled “Twelve Twentytwo”. It’s my baby, honestly. I’m so proud of it and I even grossed 100,000 streams my first month of the release. Everything, from the title to the EP cover, to the name of the songs, the interludes, the lyrics, all were intentionally crafted. Read more>>
Katy Tessman
At the age of 39, I was diagnosed with breast cancer after my first mammogram. My two sons were ages 3 and 6 years old. Since there wasn’t a book I could read to my children to help them understand, I found my own words to explain what was going to happen. Read more>>
Isaiah Silvia-Chandley
August 2021, I made my professional choreographic debut with Paramount Theatre’s production of Kinky Boots. We were originally scheduled to begin our process in March 2020… we all know how that turned out. When we began rehearsals for Kinky Boots in July 2021, we were the first theatre in the Chicagoland area to open a musical after the industry shutdown. Read more>>
Gary Grundei
Currently I’m working on a double-album concept album with my bandmate, Amy. Together, we make up the indie-rock duo, High Fiction. It’s meaningful because I’ve always loved the intersection between longer form storytelling and rock. We’re aiming to make an album that stands alone or stands as the foundation for a theatrical production or film. Read more>>
Joe Martin
I have just recorded my first album and am taking it on the road for a 14 date UK tour in April. I am a fully independent artist, so have self funded the album and booked and organised the tour myself. In a post covid era, establishing yourself as an original artists has agruably never been more challenging… But that doesn’t mean the challenge isn’t worth taking on! Read more>>
Nicole Maynard
Here is my elevator pitch for my recent series of paintings and drawings: “I use color and paint to create otherworldly, abstract places on the edge.” Of course, there is more to it than that, but that simple sentence is a door to my thinking. I don’t know what the places will look like until I’m finished making them out of oil paint, oil pastels, colored pencil, collage, or on my iPad). Read more>>
Cassandra Cole
My first album, “Steps,” was released this past May and has been an extremely meaningful experience for me. A few years ago, my whole life fell apart. During the time my husband was seeking sobriety, my father in law went missing and we still haven’t found him. Throughout those months, we lost our job and my mental health deteriorated into a complete breakdown. Read more>>
Andreas K. Georgiou
I think my most meaningful project was a lockdown shoot of my wife. Like for the vast majority of people, our “lockdown world” had shrunk to a unitary universe – and I was lucky to share mine with my other half, my wife. In moments, during this lockdown, I have loved my little universe with an intensity that was new to me. Read more>>
MelimeL
For ten years, from 2013-2022, I created and hosted the Annual Women Empowerment Event in NYC which was a networking and panel format event that took place during Women’s History Month. I had the idea of putting together this event for many years in my early 20s because as I came into my young womanhood after graduating college, working, getting married, Read more>>
Dr. Philip A. Woodmore
In 2017 I was in full swing working in my passion in St. Louis. I was teaching middle school choir to over 300 students a year, I was in charge of a dynamic music program at the Center of Creative Arts (COCA), I was running the music ministry at my father’s church (Trinity Community Church), I was the director of the St. Louis Metropolitian Police Department Choir, Read more>>
Crystal Pereyra
My most meaningful project is the first woman I embroidered. It’s what moved me to keep creating art that represents women with disabilities and normal body types beautifully. I had just had my life saving surgeries, had an ostomy bag, and a jp drain and I could not find images that represented bodies like mine. Read more>>
Socorro LeRoux
The most meaning full project that I’ve worked on thus far has been my album trilogy “Mulah Rouge”. The backstory on the project is that it started in 2018. It was my first solo musical offering. I went into it with no expectations, I just wanted to express myself as genuinely as I could. The first album in the series was an unexpected success which lead to the second installment Mulah Rouge II, Read more>>
Mel Guerrero
It’s hard to pick just one so to me, the most meaningful tattoos I’ve done are on my parents and my wonderful husband. All the tattoos are still in progress. Read more>>
Tim Penix
When I first became a creator on Twitch, I wanted to not only provide entertainment and show my passion for all things video games, but I wanted to give back in some way. In late 2014, I made my first nonprofit fundraising effort for Extra Life, the charity fundraising effort for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals (CMNH). Read more>>
Chanel Hardy
My most meaningful project has been The Black Girl Poetry Scrapbook. In 2020 during the start of the pandemic I started my very first magazine platform, Coffee Wine & Words. I started blogging in 2017 not long after I published my first book, and I ran that blog for 3 years but always knew I was meant to do more. Read more>>
Melina Farahmand
I recently launched my newest project titled Guardians Of Our Democracy (GOOD), a voting rights initiative I’ve been developing for the past few years. My three primary goals with this project are to get more people to show up at the polls, protect the fundamental elements of freedom and an informed electorate, which are crucial to any democracy, and fight against voter suppression. Read more>>
Pamela Gordimer
Three years ago, I applied for a grant with National Geographic to travel to Vietnam and paint about the ocean plastic pollution. Although I didn’t get the grant, the research opened my eyes to the horrific litter problem. This lit a fire in my heart to use my art to bring awareness to environmental issues. During the grant proposal process, I was connected with Keep America Beautiful and was invited to exhibit my paintings at their annual Vision’s Gala in NYC. Read more>>
John Logan Parsons III
Outside of my musical endeavors as the solo artist IMMERSER, I would say that CO-founding and running the Templar Collegia has been a very meaningful project for me. Creating an organization that gives people an opportunity to grow, and learn about the deepest parts of themselves has been incredible. Read more>>
Danielle Reid
While I love every project that a client presents to myself or my firm to be a part of and help execute their vision, the most meaningful projects are the ones where we are able to give back to the community. With our firm working for many nonprofit organizations, as well as social justice campaigns, we are always honored to be chosen to help further the mission of our clients. Read more>>
Cynthia Sorto
Since we received my son’s autism diagnosis, right when the pandemic started everything closed and we didn’t know what to do… I felt helpless… I had to bury the image and dreams of what I had for him and embrace this reality that was completely new to me and my family and just focus on keep moving forward. Read more>>
Barbara Techel
My most meaningful project has been working on self-mastery which I’ve done, and continue to do, through the wisdom of animals and oracles. Over the years it has been animals that have guided me to look at aspects of myself that I didn’t like and examine why. Read more>>
ilasiea gray
I have been incredibly lucky to have worked on many meaningful projects in my career. It’s amazing to reflect on and certain projects stick out for different reasons. Being a social practice artist with a lot of the work that I do being about making a difference and projects focused on social change, those are always top of mind. If I were to name a few, Read more>>