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?

Tryst Red

The most meaningful project I have worked on has been my last few installations. I consider each one an iteration from a larger body of work, focusing on personal moments made shared sensations, addressing themes of home, memory, presence, and loss. Read more>> 

Ann Adams

For many years, I wrote music by ear, by pure spirit channel but I didn’t seem to really believe in my songs or their potential. I was just writing them to better understand myself. Writing for love and singing to the sound hole and my knee. Read more>>

Jorge ‘Thriller’ Gomez

On September 16th, 2023, The Money Studio presented Palomitas de la Revolución. A curated art experience celebrating powerful Latina women throughout history. The event showcased work by creatives from Inglewood, South LA, and East LA. Read more>>

Amelia Meyers

There are so many meaningful projects I have been fortunate to be a part of as an artist. One of the most meaningful was shooting a music video for the song “Never Enough” when I was pregnant with my daughter, Lilah. The song took on an entirely new and deep meaning once the lyrics became about her. Having a video immortalizing that special time is something I will be able to share with her forever. Read more>>

LeeAnne Bauer

First and foremost, creating and participating in projects that have profound meaning and themes are truly what drives me as an artist. I’ve spent the better part of this year focusing on two projects that portray strong female lead characters and their emotional journey in what would typically be a male-dominated environment. Read more>>

Susan Dynner

Every project I work on is meaningful in one way or another. You end up spending years on each project, so you need to be passionate about them all. “Brick” was meaningful as it was the first film I produced, and it won the Originality of Vision Award at the Sundance Film Festival. Read more>>

Ayo Omolewa

One of my most meaningful projects, so far, is a personal one about me. When I was in High School, I used to make custom music artwork almost as an inside joke to share with my friends. Over the years, I would think of all these ideas I thought would make great album covers and store them down in my notes app. So, when I first started photography in 2017, one of my biggest goals was to get a chance to shoot album covers. Read more>>

Arianna Barton

My current project is my band “Arianna & The Bourbon Britches”. We are an all female trio consisting of myself on rhythm guitar/ lead vocals/and songwriting, Anna Blanton on fiddle and harmonies, and Kelsey Lee on drums and harmonies. We started The Bourbon Britches after my previous band had come to an end fall of 2022. Read more>>

Essence Enwere

My first font was one of the most meaningful projects I have ever worked on. It is the font that started it all and has led me down the graphic & type design world. I have a deep passion and love for typography, and as I began in 2019 to find what my niche would be in the design world type stuck out to me. Read more>>

Marcia Lorente Howell

I’m an oil on canvas artist. I have a career in marketing and advertising and I wasn’t ready to hand out a massive commission to a third party so I started Surfergirl Gallery as a way to represent myself. I then realized that showing other artists added value and made exhibits so much more interesting. Read more>>

Monica “MG” McCollough

I am a graphic designer, visual artist and new author. My journey into the creative sphere is rather boring. It begins with me drawing characters and story ideas as a child and just continuing to nurture that imagination and desire for artistic expression through art and design course work throughout high school and into college. Read more>>

Pete Majors

Opportunities to create and collaborate don’t always happen when you expect them. It’s exciting and very flattering to be asked to participate in something unique and possibly challenging. Having someone you respect acknowledge your talents and wanting to harness them for something special should be embraced. I recently was invited to record vocals on a fresh and exciting project that merges genres unlike anything I’ve heard before. Read more>>

Amanda Pace

Meaningful projects speak to me. I love adding tiny details connected to pieces that people have no idea are even in the design, perhaps by adding sand from a certain place into the grout or using sea glass or driftwood connected to the client or design. Living on an Bahamian out island, I salvage a large portion of my supplies including discarded tiles from old buildings, broken plates, sea glass, shells, driftwood, anything that sparks my creativity. Read more>>

Kyung Eun You

In 2019, I made artist’s book “where are we now” published by Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, NY. It is comprised of 2 sets of 25 images portraying aftermaths of my mom’s passing in Los Angeles in 2009. The images depict my dad’s alcoholic behaviors, my depression, and our struggle to find answers to where we were as newly immigrated family from Korea that come back in circle. Read more>>

Charles Ruggiero

I’ve worked on a lot of meaningful projects, but I think the one that has to take the cake is my most recent album. It’s called Charles Ruggiero, drummer composer. I have seven records out as a leader, but I’ve never recorded any of my own music. Drummers always get a bad rap when it comes to writing music. Read more>>

Britton Welsh

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Michelle Hamilton

In the latter part of 2018, I undertook an ambitious project, committing to create 60 custom glass artworks for a pediatric hospital in Florida. This occurred during a period of professional transition as I navigated the demands of a new position at a design firm, requiring the strategic allocation of my time to ensure project deadlines and financial parameters were strictly adhered to. Read more>>

NewBrese Dance Project

I think the project we are working on currently has been the most meaningful and exciting. We are currently working on an evening length work inspired by Salvadore Dali’s painting “The Persistence of Memory”. I have been fascinated with this idea about the passing of time and the distortion of it. Read more>>

Alex Forero

Ever since the pandemic, I started a Twitch show called “monsterbeats” . in this weekly show i have a diferent artist invited, that artist brings a sample thats uploaded to our website and we conduct an interview with the guest that lasts 45-50 minutes. in that time span, the audience has to dowload the sample, remix it and send it back before the timer runs out. after that we react with the guest and listen to all the demos Read more>>

Allie Crawford

One of the most meaningful projects I ever worked on was back in 2015 when I made a video for The UN to end hunger, poverty and climate change. It wasn’t a particularly long job, maybe only a 3-day job, combining footage and big, impactful text and then sizing it correctly to fit the billboards on the skyscrapers of Times Square and Broadway in NYC. Read more>>

Holli Hornlien

I am in the process of developing the Los Angeles premiere of a modern, Latine-inflected adaptation of the ancient Greek tragedy, Antigone. The working title is Antigone’s Last Birthday, and I am REALLY excited about it. Read more>>

Jocelyn JC Zhao

n my professional journey, I have consistently sought out meaningful projects that align with my values and allow me to make a positive impact. Very recently, I embarked on a new and exciting endeavor by taking on the role of a producer for my friend’s indie feature film. This experience has ignited a profound sense of excitement within me, as I navigate the intricacies of film production and witness the creative process unfold. Read more>>

Philip Yuzhong Ge

“WORTHY” is a short film emerged from a tapestry of personal and collective experiences within the Latinx community. It was an endeavor that aimed to portray the deep connection between a young Salvadoran boy and his first dog. My role as a producer for this heartfelt project was to ensure that every element on screen was as true to life as possible. Read more>>

Astin Stratoti

One of the recurring collections I bring to the Sunny Fox Apothecary is my “Maker’s Mashup” series. The product I am most known for is probably my “Stained Glass Halo Hat” – a wide-brim hat that I put acrylic panels and wooden frames into to give it the illusion of stained glass. They went viral over the internet starting in May of this year and the ride hasn’t slowed down since. Read more>>

Zhen Chen

I have several projects in mind. But one of the most meaningful project to me is the feature film I sound designed back in 2013 called “Split Gas”. It’s my first time sound designing a feature film all by myself and it’s my first feature film too. Before that are all shorts. It’s a really low budget independent film about 2 grad students Jack and Oliver, went on a road trip to San Fransisco. Read more>>

Brianna Wheeler

My most meaningful project to date has been publishing my memoir, “Altogether Different.” It’s the culmination of my late grandmother’s lifelong genealogical work braided into a memoir of her passing. In her work she discovered an ancestor named Dangerfield Newby. Newby was the first man in John Brown’s army to die during the raid on Harper’s Ferry, the incident that begat the Civil War. Read more>>

Jason Winters

In the Summer of 2020 I was blessed to embark on a music project that I would soon find to be my favorite music endeavor yet as a songwriter and musician. As the world was sitting around at home unable to go to work because of the Covid-19 shutdown, my friend and co-producer Jon Hasz decided to use the time to tackle an album that we had been discussing for over two years. The songs were ready, the studio was available, and now we found ourselves with plenty of the time we needed to take the venture of seeing this project through to the end. Read more>>

OGUZ CAN OZCANLI

I was deeply honored to serve as a jury member for the “Outstanding Turkey International Music Competition,” hosted by Berklee College of Music’s Online Program, one of the world’s most prestigious music institutions. The competition aimed to discover promising musicians and composers in Turkey, providing them with a platform to showcase their talent on the global stage. Being a juror for this competition entailed considering a set of crucial criteria. Read more>>

Trauma Beatz

Immortal Men Clothing. Immortal Men Clothing is a clothing line that Kunal Khorana & I created with a authentic message. With this brand we’re bringing awareness to the fact that Hip Hop is in a sorry state greatly because a lot of the artists are dead or in jail. “Art Never Dies” is one of our brands slogans and we treat our merch like art. Delivering luxury designs and quality material. Read more>>

Will Carter

We took a different approach with our latest album compared to our previous works to stand out from the current norms in the music industry. I value the way the energy and chemistry of the band can be felt sonically on the record. That personal, authentic and raw touch of a live band can often be lost in translation due to the style of today’s digital recordings. Read more>>

Ezekiel Bridges

The last movie I did is called Camera. It is one of the most meaningful projects because I had the opportunity to act with my father. He has been coaching me in everything for as long as I can remember. (Sports, acting etc.) So essentially, it’s like getting play in game with coach! An amazing experience all around and a bit emotional for me to be acting with my him. Read more>>

Peggy Tucker

I have always loved blown glass and came across Dale Chihuly phenomenal work about 30 years ago and was blown away, no pun intended. Read more>>

Janae White

I am excited to share with you a new project that is currently in the works – a self-care coloring book for adults! Coloring books have become increasingly popular in recent years, as people have recognized the meditative and stress-relieving benefits that come from this simple activity. With this coloring book, we aim to provide a tool for adults to practice self-care and mindfulness through the act of coloring. Read more>>

Sarah Terrill

In September of 2023, my vision to present a brand new three-part series of my artwork came to fruition in the form of my Night Of Abstracts Art Show & Gala event. This was an event I had envision three years prior. The plan was to host the event in 2020, but everything came to a screeching halt as a result of the Pandemic. Read more>>

Matthew Heaton

My real name is Matt, but I perform under the name “matthias.” and I am in the process of releasing my second album. My newest album, “idk, idc.”, will be out in late November. This particular project is meaningful to me because I proved to myself that I can continue to be creative. When I released my first full-length album last year, I was excited, but almost instantly I wondered, “what’s next?” Read more>>

Frankie Campisano

Earlier this year, my alma mater Elon University launched its inaugural alumni production fund. Alumni were invited to pitch, and three winners were selected to partner with current students to bring their projects to life. Read more>>

Christina Martin

Every customer project is meaningful to me, but a few have been especially meaningful to my clients. I preserve flowers. I dry them and press them and then encapsulate them into resin to be adored forever. I am lucky enough to have helped numerous brides turn their bouquets into a piece of art that they can admire every day. Read more>>

Tati Colombo

The most meaningful projects Ive worked on as an actor are Under The L, “Mi Viejo Ahora Despues” (My Dad Now and Then) and Rent. I love working on projects that tell untold stories, that work with themes that as a society we don’t want to see and talk about. I feel like theater and film should definitely entertain and make us have a nice time but it should also invite us to think, re-think and meet with what we don’t want to meet in real life, face to face. Read more>>

In Shallow

We’ve put a lot of specialized time into each thing we create – in general, we put out the music we want to hear, and a lot of time goes into each project because of this – but one of the more meaningful projects we’ve done as a band is creating our latest single Upside of Being Down. Read more>>

Virginia Mason Richardson

The Magic Guide is an ever-unfolding story that I started writing in 2018, and really, it started on a whim. Inspiration struck, and the next thing I knew, I was launching an online publication. It’s evolved over the years, but here I am, five years later, and it’s still going. Every time I sit to write, it feels like I’m answering a calling. Read more>>

Cora Worthington

The most meaningful project I’ve ever completed was a large stippling drawing I made to represent mine and my husbands’ marriage. Drawn on 19×24 cardstock, taking 176 hours and made of 2.2 million dots, the drawing looks like a still life drawing of a couple pairs of cowboy boots and some stringed instruments. It grabs the attention of many guitar players, music lovers, or country people everywhere. But few people know the story behind the dots. Read more>>

Sarah Guarino

As I transition more of my focus on being a photographer rather than modeling, I wanted a long term project that resonated with me that helped fill slower periods in my craft. Being part of a collective as well, The Hub Agency, it can be easy to get lost in that work and not focus on your own. I looked deep into myself for something I could turn into an ongoing project that meant something to me. Read more>>