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?

Christina Ng

The most meaningful project I’ve had the opportunity to work on is the, “Seeds for the Future,” school garden grant program put on by Berry Good Food. This project is near and dear to my heart because of its focus on teaching students of all ages about the essential connection between the garden and the kitchen. Read more>>

Gordon Downs

The project I’m currently working on is the most meaningful and largest in terms of scope and production. For the past year I’ve been researching the animated sitcom, American Dad! from a merchandising perspective. There isn’t much official merchandise for American Dad! Read more>>

Nina Averbeck

One of my favorite meaningful projects has been something called “Dancing for Good”. This is a blend of my MYSFIT dance fitness classes + donating to local charities. Each time we do a “dancing for good” month, we choose a new charity and then host multiple classes where those who attend can choose to participate and get entered into a drawing to receive free MYSFIT classes/swag in return. Read more>>

Younes Aomari

The most meaningful project I have worked on this year is definitely “7ed L’Klam FL’uZine” a monthly slam café that I had hosted and co-organized as a member of D’KLAM with the collective VIS’ART and the cultural center L’uZine here in Casablanca,Morocco. After the success of “D’KLAM Morocco’s Poetry Slam 2022”, the community of spoken word poets grew bigger and stronger on the national scale which gave birth to the need for a poetry space. Read more>>

Kat Dion

In 2022, I launched my inaugural French project, the “Miroir” EP, a culmination of my desire to express through the beauty of the French language. As a proud French-Canadian, I felt it essential to honor my native tongue. In 2020, an incredible opportunity emerged as I signed with my debut record label and met music producer Louis Coté. Read more>>

Codi Smith

My most meaningful project I’ve ever worked on was the ‘in the meantime’ – EP. That project is is now getting expanded into a full body of work called ‘MADE UNDER CIRCUMSTANCE’ dropping September 7th! The ‘in the meantime’ EP was cultivated in preparation for a heart surgery I had just discovered I needed like 10 months prior. Read more>>

Ryan Spears

My most meaningful project is the most recent one I dropped titled Headspace 2 which is a follow up project from the first headspace Ep I made in 2020. The backstory to this project is really simple, the name Headspace represents the current mind state I was in during that time period of my life while I was making all of these songs. And It’s also a play off my name ‘La Head’. Read more>>

Shannon Stutenroth

I’m currently working on a new knitwear collection for So Squish called Teenagehood. It’s been one of the biggest collections I’ve made so far and a huge undertaking. Every time I visit home, to rural Pennsylvania, I come back with inspiration, usually taken from colors, shapes and textures I see in nature. After my visit home this summer, I left with a different feeling this time. Read more>>

Kelly Lenh

When I was 18, I went on my first international trip as an American-born with my family to Vietnam. My mom hadn’t been back in her home country in about 20 years. We both learned a lot about how we want to live our life going forward through this trip. I recorded the whole trip and I never did anything with the footage until 2022, when I created “Tóc Nửa Nâu Nửa Bạc (Half Brown Half White Hair)” For me, this project is meaningful in a multitude of ways. Read more>>

Cristin Drescher

The most meaningful project I’ve done was my first custom order soon after starting Lark & Loe. I developed a mini capsule collection with the client for their nephew who was just born out of the state. A mini capsule collection is a few garments (4-7 pieces) that coordinate to maximize wearability. Read more>>

Nazz Raidience

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Mike Woo and Ardi Samonte

Back in 2016, I was graduating college and moving back home to San Francisco. I started working a job I didn’t really like and that didn’t fulfill my passion or my purpose. I was also going through a lot of personal changes and my mental health was not the best. It was a confusing time. Read more>>

Lynnea Holland-Weiss

One of my most meaningful projects was creating a mural inside a public hospital. This project was organized by LAND Studio for MetroHealth Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio in 2022. It felt like such special and impactful place to have my artwork because people from all walks of life are there seeking healing in some form or helping others to heal. Read more>>

Lauren Little

In 2019, my Nan passed away. She was one of my best friends and like a second mother to me, help raised me. My Nan made London her home after coming from Jamaica in the 60’s, when she was just 19. In short, she got married, had kids and set up her life as a carer and seamstress. Read more>>

Shayla Tabor

Prior to launching my creative studio, my background was in multimedia journalism. I pursued a journalism major in college because of my passion for getting to know people, and sharing their stories through writing and media. Read more>>

Shiouwen Hong

One of the projects that means a lot to me personally and professionally is my short doc ‘A Porvenir Story’ filmed in Honduras. This was my first doc film that started my journey as a documentary filmmaker, it was exciting, challenging and one of the most rewarding experiences. Read more>>

Julie Goldstein

I have always created bodies of work that involved women and the sea and often they became semi-autobiographical. When I was pregnant with my son Frankie, I took time away from my process and spent time researching. I spent 9 months diving deep into stories about women during the early 1900’s who challenged men to swim across the Hudson River, this was a time when women weren’t allowed to wear swimsuits nor swim in public. Read more>>

Hillary Leftwich

Since publishing my first two books, Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock and Aura, I have learned a lot about being an independent press author and what goes into this, including self-promotion and marketing. We have to promote ourselves to get the word out because no one else will do it for us (some indie presses, along with local bookstores, do a fantastic job at helping to promote and spotlight authors). Read more>>

A Purple Life

When I started my blog in 2015 I didn’t see a lot of black women writing in the financial independence space so I wanted to share my journey in case it helped someone else. Luckily since 2015 this space has become a lot more diverse. Read more>>

Atticus Stockdale

For the last year my band, Those Dogs, has been working on our first full length album. It has been an intense, busy, stressful, but ultimately very creatively fulfilling experience. To finally have it out for people to hear is a huge relief and we are really proud of what we were able to create. Read more>>

Rachel Weber

This summer I had a really meaningful engagement session at Zion National Park with Tucker and Lesley. When we started talking about their engagement session they mentioned how much travel means to them and their relationship. They floated out the idea of taking photos at Zion and I was immediately down! Read more>>

Dana Mathios

I am all about behind the scenes. After the 2018 renovation of the Colorado Snowsports Museum, I had some time to review each exhibition we produced and think about areas that could be improved. One exhibit, in our 10th Mountain Division bay, showcased several overseas handwritten letters to and from World War II soldiers and their families. Read more>>

MeloDious

July 14, 2023 is a date we remember well. After over a year of hard-work, we anxiously waitied for the clock to hit 9pm. Our debut album project “Is It The Way: Volume I” was finally ready to be released into the world and we couldn’t be prouder. Read more>>

Sandra Encaoua

It’s essential that my projects make sense, that they allow me to further my thinking. One of my series is particularly meaningful to me: my Judaica painting series. It asks me about history, my family’s history, the history of which I am the heir. Read more>>

Geoff Mitchell

Although my first love in art was painting and it remains the core of what I do as an artist, I have taken many diversions over the years from it to explore different ways of being creative. From filmmaking, puppetry, miniature dioramas and props for parade floats, some of these projects have been extraordinarily meaningful to me. Read more>>

Vik Kovacs

I sometimes wonder whether there’s something wrong with me. Throughout my professional career as a musician I’ve played second fiddle to someone else in the group. On a surface level, I realise that can come across the wrong way, but after thinking about it, the reason why I find it difficult to collaborate with other artists is because my vision is so vivid to me. Read more>>

Malora Johnwell

It is my passion to help and teach others. Read more>>

Dallys Newton

The most meaningful project of my circus career (so far) is a troupe called The Tiny Traveling Circus. It’s so meaningful because it was the first time I ever lead a troupe. I wanted to create a circus show that had a meaningful message, interactive elements, and a sense of whimsy. Read more>>

Elthia

“wildfire” is my most recent single, and it is truly the most in-depth I’ve ever worked on a song. A few years ago, I had a dream of a little girl sitting by the door of a cabin. A wildfire blazed outside as she looked out and sang the line, “I am broken down without you.” I imagined that she was waiting for her mother to rescue her, and that the two would spend their days searching tirelessly for one another. I wrote this story to honor the girl I saw.  Read more>>

Alan Goldsher

Prior to Covid, I executive produced Emmy Awarded series for PBS stations in NYC including Best Places To Live and Faces of Philanthropy. Read more>>

Jia Wertz

When I was about 20-years-old I read Rubin Carter’s book The Sixteenth Round, and was very moved by his words. Carter was wrongfully convicted of a murder he didn’t commit, and after losing all of his appeals and really having nowhere to turn, he wrote the book as a last attempt to seek help from anyone that would listen. Read more>>

Larenzo Floyd

One of the most significant and meaningful projects in my life was my first EP, “From Me To You.” It marked a transformative period for me, filled with valuable lessons and guidance from my peers. Creating this EP from scratch was an immensely enjoyable experience that captured my growth and development. Read more>>

PJ Riley

The most meaningful project I have worked on is a Documentary called Mission Fish: A Deep Dive into Healing. The story embarks on a profound journey alongside, a good friend on mine Brian Barber, a Retired Marine veteran navigating life after service. I had the privilege to witness his inspiration in creating Mission FISH—a nonprofit 501C aimed at guiding veterans towards mental healing through the medium of fishing. Read more>>

OZS

There’s been good and bad moments in my life that have sparked music I’ve created! That’s why all of my projects have deep meanings to me. The most recent EP I put out (Black and Gray) is a project that definitely has the most meaning to me. The first song on my EP, “My Pretty Little Lover” is very special to me. Read more>>

Joonie B

On August first I released my EP “Ironwood Springs.” The project shares a name with a christian camp I attended as a child. I wanted to make a piece of work that conveyed summer. Not the typical summer depiction but the true season in all of its duality. There is a whole spectrum of feelings you can experience from basking in the sun to feeling isolated and alone. Read more>>

James Abud

Every project is meaningful if you care about what you’re doing. My original albums have all been extraordinary creative experiences, the bands I’ve played with have been hilarious adventures, and the community events that I’ve created and hosted have been beautiful collaborations of spirit with excellent individuals. All that said, I’m very excited about the project I’m currently involved in and I’d like to talk about that. Read more>>

Emily Bertucci

At the end of the 2022 school year, a sense of excitement and creativity filled the air at Community Roots Academy (CRA) in Laguna Niguel, California. Eager to celebrate the distinct essence of their classrooms, students embarked on a school-wide competition that would spark their imaginations and inspire future students. The objective was to select a single word that would encapsulate the spirit of their classroom environments. Read more>>

Erick Acuña

I was born and raised in Peru. The last decade I’ve been living in Washington DC. During the day I work at a non-profit human rights organization. The rest of the time I work as a comedian, writer and producer. Read more>>

Alessandro Gentile

A meaningful project is my most recently directed short film, “Della”. I was approached by an old neighbor Rachel Ellner, who was interested in producing a short film about two estranged sisters. I had just completed my first film titled “Lodo” that had done well on the festival circuit. Read more>>

Nick Azzaro

This is a tough question, but a great one. There have been many projects I’ve felt very strongly about, so it’s hard to assign a hierarchy. I feel my most recent project, however, is among the most meaningful because it’s happening in real-time. I’m finishing up a site-specific installation that comments on the current state of public education. It’s called “Simple Math, Too”, and is a follow up to my show from 2019 called “Simple Math”. Read more>>

Natasha Soto-Albors

One of my priorities as a screenwriter and producer has always been to align myself with projects that I feel great personal resonance with. In 2018 I had the opportunity to collaborate with director Pam Nasr on the screenplay for her short film “Clams Casino”. The goal of the film was to explore the phenomenon Mukbang, which is a type of online broadcast where a host eats large quantities of food on camera while interacting with the audience. Read more>>

Katie Thompson

I’ve found that all of my projects have to really speak to me on a deeply personal level, or be some sort of service to those in need or underrepresented. Read more>>

John Koller

One of my most meaningful projects was being selected for the Group Study Exchange program, sponsored by Rotary International. The program is a team-orientated exchange between countries where people from diverse backgrounds share their stories and professional experience. I was selected as the resident “artist” and my team was hosted in Iceland for a whirlwind tour of presentations and exceptional sightseeing. Read more>>

Baz Francis

I think that all artists have to deal with condescending remarks from careerists who only view success in business terms, but without passion or meaning then I fear music would become just another number crunch to me. It has therefore always been essential for me to involve myself in work that is both fulfilling and meaningful, and a great example of this is something that I am currently working on with my dear friend and author, Julia Peters. Read more>>

Alix Oliver

I would say there were three projects that were meaningful and impacted me. The first one would be The Conjuring 3. It was my very first time working on a bigger production than I was use to . I learned a lot and got fantastic connections and built relationships that I still have to this very day. Read more>>

Peishan Huang

One of the most personally meaningful projects for me is called New Bai Words, a project about the language of my ethnic group.One of the most personally meaningful projects for me is called New Bai Words, a project about the language of my ethnic group. Read more>>

Giulia Corda

The most meaningful project of my career is the one that I’m currently working on. I’m part of a writing team (writer/director Federica Cellini, writer Mirko Cetrangolo, and I) that is adapting Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story “The Boundary” into a feature film. The project is supported by the Ministry of Italian Culture. Jhumpa Lahiri is a Pulitzer Prize winning author, and “The Boundary” opens her upcoming collection “Roman Stories”. Read more>>