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?

Joy Tan

The most impactful project I’ve contributed to is the award-winning film “Backlog,” which delves into issues of social justice. Read more>>

Siobhan O’Loughlin

My show in a bathtub, Broken Bone Bathtub, is a show in a bathtub in someone’s home, and an immersive experience for an audience of however many people can fit in the bathroom. Read more>>

Dj Reall Krazy

My last album meant a lot to me. I got really personal in this one and it made the music a little bit more emotional as well. Read more>>

Nova Pooler

The introductory E.P. that I currently working on is the most meaningful project thus far. This project technically began in 2016/2017 when I began making a song called “TBD”. Read more>>

Patrick Putze

I am a veteran who retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2011. I moved to Chicago to attend grad school at the Art Institute of Chicago. Shortly after graduation, I began work at the National Veterans Art Museum (NVAM) as their Web Developer and Media Coordinator. Read more>>

Corinna Bellizzi

I started my podcasting journey at the precise moment when I felt I lacked a meaningful project. At the time, I was nearing the end of my first year in pursuit of my MBA at Santa Clara University, when George Floyd was brutally murdered. Read more>>

Bree Fish

As a portrait photographer primarily in the music industry, I have had the opportunity to work with many inspiring and passionate creatives. Read more>>

Affy Varona

My most meaningful projects were often those that I didn’t get paid for. Though I’ve been acting for years, I’m considered new to the industry, particularly after moving cities. Read more>>

Fritz Schaper

Well first I’d like to start by saying that every project is meaningful in some fashion – even if it just a stepping stone to something else – I think the most meaningful projects for me as an artist are the ones that are personal Read more>>

Kim Reese

Artistically, it is challenging to match the type of projects that would inspire me with the actual client work that I do. Most inquiries are driven by images of what has already been done and an interest in repeating it. Read more>>

Katusha Jin

Every project I have worked on has been meaningful to me in its own way. They differ in medium, genre, and in the people I get to work with, but I always try to reflect on what I have learnt from the process, and what its impact will be in the long term. Read more>>

Kelly Q Anderson

If you want any project to carry meaning, you must believe in it all the way. All. The. Way. The world is chock full of naysayers and distractions. Create something that is weird, original, and entirely yours. Read more>>

Madison Girifalco

Holding Space is the culmination of my personal journey through grief and loss, deeply influenced by my own experiences and the collective challenges of our time. Read more>>

Lisa Bogart

Funny, my most recent project is always the most meaningful to me. I dive in to a creative pursuit and it’s all I think about for weeks or months. Currently I am working on self publishing my illuminated manuscript. Read more>>

Maria Fabrizio

One :: The most meaningful project that I’ve worked on for myself would be the Wordless News illustration based Blog I started in 2013. Read more>>

Georgia Florena Shaban

This past year I designed and painted 2 murals at the Rhode Island SPCA. For the last few years, I have been exhibiting my art & goods at their annual fundraiser, called Paws in the Park. Read more>>

RODERICK WEBB

I have been creating music for most of my life. I knew at an early age that music was a part of me. I love to create and use music as a tool to express myself, it’s therapeutic for me. Read more>>

Sandrien De Bruijn-Mesman

The most meaningful project I worked on is 20 Men Project. Right after George Floyd was murdered in June of 2020 a group of concerned Chester County residents came together on ZOOM ( because we were in the midst of the global pandemic) to talk about about what was happening so far away in Minneapolis and if this could happen in our community. Read more>>

Paul Mauro

Writing, recording, and performing original songs with Brother Other has been the most meaningful project I’ve worked on. Brother Other started in 2018 as Matthew Saccoman and Paul Mauro. Read more>>

Christopher M. Allport

What is the most meaningful project I have ever worked on? Well, the word most is rather superlative in my creative judgement. Read more>>

Brian Landis Folkins

Being a character actor, I seek out stories that matter to me. Subjects that are difficult, that challenge ideas and the way we think. I like characters that are difficult and roles that scare me. Read more>>

Kari Petsche Suzannah Snell

There were several projects that really stand out to us as pivotal moments in our creative experience and portfolio building. Below we talk a bit about our creative process and you can see more about our process on our website colorpunchcreative.com. Read more>>

Alissa Zavalianos

As an author, I’ve had the chance to work on many meaningful projects; it’s hard to choose a favorite or one that sticks out the most. But I think I’d say working on my debut novel The Earth-Treader was the most meaningful since it’s the book that got my foot in the publishing door. Read more>>

Stephanie Waxman

My first outing as an author was a children’s sex education book, What Is A Girl? What Is A Boy? It was published by a small California press, then immediately published in Canada, Australia, Israel, and years later, Japan. Read more>>

Lauren McElroy

It is my highest intention that my work be meaningful, healing, and to raise the collective consciousness with thought provoking words and imagery so that we all can work according to our ability to create this world in peace, truth and Justice. Read more>>

Laura Drake

The book that enticed an agent to represent me agreed with me that it was Women’s Fiction. Half the editors at publishing houses she submitted it to thought it was Romance, the other half agreed with us. Read more>>

Yuntong (Momo) Wu

Project 1: In collaboration with Paul Williams Gallery, we launched a community project that provided free painting classes to children who live in the community of downtown Ontario. Read more>>

Keidrick ‘Sensei’ Alford

Every executed creative project or curated art exhibition we deploy, we attempt to make our most impactful. So we believe our most recent artistic deployment is our most meaningful. Read more>>

Natalie Reyne

The ‘Happy Nation’ series is a deeply personal project that I’ve recently embarked on, with three pieces completed so far: ‘Happy Nation,’ ‘Good Lie,’ and ‘Numb.’ Read more>>

Leean Pan

Shared Ice is a collection of stories about our childhood nostalgia for the shaved ice desserts we grew up eating. Read more>>

Emily Haavik

A couple years ago, I had the privilege of creating one of the most meaningful projects I’ve ever been a part of, with a group of amazing women. Read more>>

Raissa Palacios

All my projects are meaningful to me but there was this project I really felt honored to do, it was to capture the emotions and design of a wedding invitation and transform it into a hand embroidered Design.. Read more>>

River Cody

I’ve always been slightly obsessed with creating a visual a tory people can connect with. On September 11, 2010, I turned 11… and all I wanted for my birthday was to make a movie. Read more>>

Chris Henderson

Several have had to do with truly dark subjects.. I’ve worked with a young family struggling to say goodbye to their stillborn daughter in the birthing room, a young woman with fresh bruises on her face from when her boyfriend beat her. Read more>>

Bruno Falcon

This is actually a relatively new awareness for me. I was speaking to friend and fellow freelancer about burnout and the challenge of being a self employed creative. Read more>>

Dana Varon

One of the best things I have created (and I have created and curated many things) was the children’s book(but also for adults) I wrote, illustrated and published for my rescued dog Jelly, he passed in 2014 right after we had moved from downtown NYC to Laurel Canyon, LA. Read more>>

Lori Heninger

My life and my work are best described by Viktor Frankl’s idea of our primary drive is making/finding meaning, combined with Martin Buber’s idea that “all real living is meeting”. Words for Women is a demonstration of this combination in the form of poetry. Read more>>

Calvert Miles

The most meaningful Project that I’ve been a part of is my second film Yasuke Descendents. It took four years to make. I’ve always been the type to always create a job for myself. Read more>>

Jacoub Reyes

There have been many meaningful projects I have been a part of. During my time as a Ma’s House BIPOC Artist-in-Residence on Shinnecock Indian Nation, I created a mural that honored the work of the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers. Read more>>

Clarisa Kirk

V’NO Couture is an Elegant, hand crafted wine glassware line, that is embellished with beautiful Crystals. This is such a meaningful project because it allows me to bring a little sparkle to everyone’s lives and homes one glassware at a time. Read more>>

 

Žygimantas Sivilevičius

My most meaningful project is the one I will drop this year along with my producer and long-time friend yearnthedayaway (YTDA for short). Read more>>

Barış Fert

My current film project holds profound significance for me. Set in Ankara during 1997, it unfolds the narrative of a grieving family amid their mourning process. Read more>>