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?

Chimen Kouri

I think the most meaningful project I’ve worked on is a story I’ve been co-writing for a long time. Overall, I believe it’s a romance about two people who want to be together, but there are too many outside forces keeping them apart. Read more>>

Tyjeane Christian

The most creative project I’ve done was having the chance and opportunity to bring an overall vision to life. This concept goes from music videos to concept videos telling an overall story. Read more>>

Bridget Anthony-Hlioui

‘What is Home?’ is my most meaningful project to date. It’s more than a project; it’s this essential question I continually ask myself. It’s become a compass of sorts that guides my artistic work. I first remember asking myself this question while sharing my bedroom with a refugee family, not your everyday kind of experience for a rural American girl about 7 years old. Read more>>

Julia Leggent

From November 2018 to April 2022, I painted my birth control pill every day before I took it, creating 1227 paintings in total. The paintings were made on two-by-two-inch panels, with the background color fluctuating from green to pink as a record of my menstrual cycle. Read more>>

Sally Rose Monnes

As both a touring musician and the founder of a self-defense nonprofit organization, my rawest passion comes from speaking up on social issues and creating safe spaces wherever we travel. My nonprofit is called “Fight Like A Grrrl Club” as an homage to the riot grrrl movement. It is our mission to not only provide free self defense training to folks in need, but to also foster a community where individuals feels safe both in their bodies and in society. Read more>>

Alex Marshall

Making Michelle Obama dinnerware as a birthday gift from her interior designer. We had worked with Michael S. Smith on a couple of previous projects and one day we got an email requesting a phone call to discuss a “birthday gift for a very special person“. Read more>>

Chloe Janowski

I’d say that my most meaningful project so far is my most recent painting: Artist and Muse. Read more>>

Purvi Shah

I used to design movie posters. A project that still gives me goosebumps is a documentary film called “Breathing Lessons,” directed by Jessica Yu. Based on the true story of Mark O’Brien, who contracted polio when he was six years old, the disease left him paralyzed from the neck down, and he used an iron lung to breathe; Read more>>

Zoe Pappenheimer

I started creating hand-painted paper dolls during the pandemic. It was a way of coping with my feelings of being cooped up. The more I worked on these dolls the more I enjoyed them. Because it was a personal project, I could be as outrageous as I wanted. I made outfits that were very silly (sunny side up egg bra) and others that were cute (doggie fanny pack). Read more>>

Emma Steiger

I grew up immersed in the world of arts. My mother was a dancer and painter, my sister is a poet, my brother a musician, and my dad a screenwriter and producer. I grew up in a very LA way – running around tv sets and dreaming of the day I could stand up there just like those I admired. Read more>>

Shara Kay Johnson

The two documentary-oriented projects I’m most pleased to have worked on are an ethnographic account of a peasant village in northern China, and facilitating a documentary film, “African Witchfinder,” profiling an inspiring Namibian, Berrie Holtzhausen. But choosing between the two for “the most meaningful” I’d have to go with Berrie. Read more>>

Paul Angone

I’m about to see a really meaningful project release into the world–my fifth published book, “Listen To Your Day: The Life-Changing Practice of Paying Attention.” Read more>>

Cie Hoover

There have been a lot of meaningful projects during my time as a professional artist, however, a current project I am working on is probably the most significant. Read more>>

Marcus “Ritmo” Figueroa

The most meaningful project I’ve had the privilege to be involved in was a movie score for a contemporary silent picture. The concept really lured me in. A silent film with 6 separate composers that allows the viewer to have the option of choosing which soundtrack would accommodate the film as you watch. Read more>>

Anquanizia Hall

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is my latest project, a production of Drinks on Me by Prince Duren. Drinks on Me is a compelling play that explores the dynamics of relationships and the measures individuals will go for the deep affection of love and money. Read more>>

Arianna Ugalde

Starting my business was the most meaningful project I worked on. I started making jewelry as a hobby and a coping skill of mine to cope with my narcolepsy. I eventually legitimized my business because I wanted to spread more awareness about the effects of narcolepsy and share my art with anyone Read more>>

Charlie Dane

While getting my degree in Music Production & Engineering at Berklee College of Music, I started shooting and editing music videos for myself and my friends. Making music and visual art had been my entire life until that point, so making music videos came naturally to me. Read more>>

Abbi Ruppert

During the summer of 2019 after my third year of undergrad, I built my first public sculpture for a wonderfully unique program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville called Sculpture on Campus. I put my blood sweat and tears into that sculpture, Revival, a 12-foot-tall abstract work I fabricated from steel and mortar. Read more>>

Dechen Hawk

Whatever creative endeavor I’m immersed in is my most meaningful project. That is to say that engaging in creative acts connects me to my purpose and is therefore meaningful. The act of creating is an interactive process. One cannot be anywhere but in the present moment when creating. Read more>>

Mike (The Positive Gaines) Gaines

The most meaningful project that I’ve worked on would be writing children’s books. I had started a podcast and after about a year, I decided I wanted to write a children’s book. I wasn’t sure where to begin, what story to tell, how to publish it etc. I centered around telling stories that I went through, with a twist. Read more>>

Nicole Bonasoro

Whenever I’m going through a difficult time I turn to art to help me get through it. I’ve been doing the #The100DayProject founded by Michael Bierut and spread by Elle Luna, where you’re meant to come up with a theme and make something inspired by that theme every day for 100 days. Read more>>

Hasmik Movsisyan

As an Armenian born during the first Artsakh war of independence in 1991, war has been a constant but often dormant part of my existence, since most of my life I have lived in relative peace. But my reality and the lives of 10 million people suddenly changed on September 27th, 2020 and the ensuing war shaped a new reality, one where the idea of war had metastasized from a distant possibility to an immediate threat. Read more>>

Alex Zelenka

I have worked on many projects across two decades with so many talented artists, i am very grateful and humbled by the body of work, so many great songs, This new wave of songs are really exciting, There is a bunch of collaborations but with this new artist i’m working with his name is Kontrol Phreak from IL USA like myself we met in Florida and started making some heavy Techno tracks. Read more>>

Pearls Daily

This May 1st, 2023 will be my fifth year sober. To Celebrate I am partnering with an incredible mocktail company Curious Elixirs to produce a fabulous burlesque show and party! I want to create more creative community spaces that welcome everyone and don’t make others feel pressure to drink. Mindful consumption is important. Read more>>

Lisa Cirincione

So in order to give you context on some of these meaningful projects that have truly transformed my life, I want to rewind and start maybe not the very beginning, but from some of the formative moments that brought me to where I am now. Read more>>

Joel Siegel

The most meaningful project I have worked on so far is Linktober. Linktober is the social media based Legend of Zelda themed art event that I started in 2015. It manifested as an alternate to the other drawing events of October. Read more>>

Shawn Vinson

In May, I’ll celebrate 25 years since co-founding the Vinson Gallery on Decatur Square, six miles east of downtown Atlanta. Two years prior to that, I produced a pop-up show during the 1996 Summer Olympics, long before anyone was using the term ‘pop-up’. Read more>>

Diamond Israel

Back in 2020, I decided to take a leap and make one of my ideas come to life. It was the thought of hosting an event with a diverse group of women aged 18+ to discuss discrepancies within the beauty industry and redefine what womanhood and sisterhood should look like. Read more>>

Michael Herman

Honestly….The Call of the Void Podcast. Back in 2020, my wife and I had this crazy idea to make a fully-immersive fiction podcast. We had no sound design experience, no producing experience, no money, but we had this gorgeous story in our heads. So, one lazy summer afternoon in Michigan we looked at each other and said…maybe we make this thing. Read more>>

Connor Legg

During my last semester of undergraduate education, I had the privilege of teaming with peers to create a gallery exhibition. While we worked as a group to create an overarching team and title for the show, we worked individually on what art we wanted to include and how we would present it. The latter is the project that comes to mind. Read more>>

Jason Poncio

All the projects that I have worked on whether Music or Movies have been meaningful. You get the opportunity to create and bring your vision to life and also grow from each project. Read more>>

Ameshia Stokes

My most meaningful project is “A Plus” a community based on going art project. Read more>>

Michael Newberry

What does rapture look like? “Transparency: The Space Series” is a life-size figure painting project that I started last year and is still ongoing. It features figures in different states of connectedness, creation, and fulfillment, set against backgrounds of nebuli, stars, and planets. Read more>>

Akqra Smith

Event planning pop up shops it was meaningful to me because it gave me a opportunity to expand as a creative . I also was able to contribute & build a community and be around other like minded entrepreneurs and businesses owners. . Read more>>