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?
Nina Covington
One of the most meaningful projects I have ever worked on was a photographic series I called Goals. Brainstorming a new series celebrating women ages 40 and over jump started some truly intense self-exploration. Read more>>
Abbey Giedraitis
The most meaningful projects I have worked on have been my imaginary landscapes. I have anxiety, which started back in 2018 during my first pregnancy. Read more>>
Cat Ekkelboom-White
I think my most meaningful project has to be one that I’m working on right now, called Photographers for People & Planet. Read more>>
Latrice Smith
Stlawardstheexperience this means a lot to me because I want to bring acknowledgment to those that’s doing great for our city. Read more>>
Paul Berg
Meaningful projects is my true motivation. If what you do, can bring meaning and correct something in your community, or someone’s life, then the only option is to do it. Read more>>
Kseniia Bilous
The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is my travel blog, which I created to showcase the beautiful and intriguing places across the United States. Read more>>
Mosamoa Tuiteleleapaga
To date, I think the most meaningful project I have worked on was my “Billy Milly” EP. Still the longest body of work thus far. It was a pivotal point in my creative career where I had just had the collective I was in snatched away by one greedy member and had to kind of reintroduce myself as an individual. Read more>>
Zhuoqian Yu
I once worked as a director, producer, and production designer to create a short film called BODY about eating disorders. While I can’t claim that the topic is the most significant, it held great importance to me at the time. Read more>>
Claudia Osteen
A current project that I am working on is looking at the impact of climate change on the South Caroline Coastline. My project, In Extremis, is a multimedia artwork that examines the effects of climate change and human impact on the South Carolina coastline and the ways in which the eroding salt marshes impact the surrounding landscape to create ghost forests. Read more>>
Joshua Martin
One of the most meaningful projects I’ve worked on is my latest single, “Sol y Chela.” The song has a special backstory. I wrote it after visiting Jalisco for the first time, the state where my father was born and raised. Read more>>
Jo Vega
I’ve had the privilege of working on several impactful projects, and today I’d like to highlight two. In one instance, a client entrusted me with creating a memory gnome from a cherished flannel shirt belonging to her late husband. Read more>>
Evan Romo
Without question, the most meaningful project I’ve worked on (and still am) is Emmeff Pearl Creative Studio. Emmeff, which is a spelled out version of the acronym “MF”, is a film collective that I founded in 2018. Read more>>
Lukas Purm
My most meaningful project is my web series currently in preproduction. After being pitched and close to production with studio backing in early 2020, it rested for a few years. Read more>>
Luis Calderon
My most meaningful project was the solo exhibition I created at the Tibes ceremonial ground in Ponce. I felt very close to my ancestors while I was planning and putting it together. Read more>>
Rachel Richards
Most of my family photo and film sessions are meaningful in one way or another. Sometimes families will book a session with me because they realize the season of life is about to change. Read more>>
Rich “JKR70” Lester
I met a singer songwriter at Davies Uptown Ramblers Club, Named Clay Hughes clayhughes.bandcamp.com The encounter was secretly set up by one of my best friends, Daniel “Lucid Flows” Bartle, thinking that a collaboration between the singer and I would be something to explore. Read more>>
Micah Delhauer
Right now, and I talked about this in the last interview, I’m finishing up my first feature, a horror movie that I produced with my brother. Read more>>
Bri Cirel
In the summer of 2022, I completed my first mural in downtown Los Angeles during the pivotal moment when the Supreme Court overturned “Roe v Wade.” Read more>>
Casey Joiner
I’ve been making a personal body of work for the past 3 years called “Surrounded By Natural Causes”. It started a few years into my Dad being sick with cancer, and has been my navigation of grief, memory, and identity. Read more>>
DaGuyInBlack
One of my recent projects HARVEST highlighted my experience leaving the military and returning home. Through the lyrics, cinematography, and even the beat i regurgitated the changes i was enduring. Read more>>
Shivawn Mitchell
At the top of the pandemic, I had recently moved to the city I had grown up in and didn’t have any community or connections. Read more>>
Disnie Sebastien
I have trained as an Actress and Performer for many years. In 2020, I unexpectedly found my passion and a new avenue in the entertainment industry as a TV Host. Read more>>
Rosa Antonini
The most meaningful project I have worked on is “Wonders Of My World.” I created this program, funded by the proceeds from my self-development book, The Zero-Sum Game Of You, to enable young adults in financial need to learn skills for a year or more. Read more>>
Heidi Little
The most meaningful project I have worked on is the mission of love, care and respect for all children of earth. I grew up in a home day care center with 27 other people’s children in Saskatchewan Canada. Read more>>
Kristin Kunc
Formally I am interested in ‘Oil Painting’- the legacy, the tradition, the connection with history as well as ‘the craft’. I paint in a manner known as classical realism which basically boils down to– I paint what I see. Read more>>
Avi Ram
The most meaningful projects I’ve worked on as a visual artist are those that allow me to merge my passion for murals and body painting with my love for nature and human connection. Read more>>
María- 7limones
“Arctic Diary” is an ongoing long term personal project where I explore the margins, solitude, and ice within the isolated landscape of Arctic lands. Read more>>
Angela Wenyang Hou
I’d like to share my recent project, where I collaborated with electronic musician LZ (Louzhang) as a VJ artist for his new album live show. Read more>>
Matthew Michael Ross
I’ve just finished producer and directing a feature film, “INVISIBLE.” I wrote the film based on real characters from my life and an unfortunate tragic story. Read more>>
Julien Wagner
My most recent project and first feature, September Babies, is probably the most meaningful project to me. I remember finishing a short film and thinking, “Okay Julien, graduation day. Read more>>
Jonathan Meret
The most meaningful project I’ve worked on to date is ‘Canary’ by PH Dallaire & Ben Therriault. It’s a 12 minute short film that the two directors had been shopping around for a while before landing at RodeoFX, who would finance and produce the film. Read more>>
Urban Scarlet
Leilani: Music has always been a part of my life which has allowed me incredible opportunities to engage in various projects: from performing with my family in a three- generational Hawaiian band, to performing with various musical, multicultural and vocal groups ranging in genres from rock/pop, indie, rap/hip-hop, gospel/church, jazz and classical. Read more>>
Kortney Jones
I grew up visiting my grandparents on both sides of my parents in Cortez, Colorado. None of my family is native but we were surrounded but Native American influences through friends and family of friends. Read more>>
Xianzhi (VIC) Fu
The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is titled “Mind Habitat,” employing video mapping techniques using MadMapper software. Read more>>
Hao Sun
The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is the film “MAYBE NEXT YEAR.” This project, which I produced in 2022, was incredibly significant for several reasons. Read more>>