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?

Rachel Tribble

Several years ago I did some work for a large national retailer, who made journals with my paintings as the cover. Several months after the project went into the stores, I was contacted by a woman from a children’s cancer hospital in Texas. Read more>>

David Sasik

The most meaningful project that I’ve ever worked on is Miscellanea, an indie TV show created and produced by Katrina Cebreiro. Specifically, the episode, “Ghost Boyfriend.” Read more>>

Aseem Tiwari

Hands down, the most important project I’ve worked on as a former actor and now a screenwriter is called Normal. My director buddy, Mragendra Singh, and I would meet to work on a script and our discussions about what we call “poverty porn” – movies like Slumdog Millionaire or Lion, that glamorize poverty in India. Read more>>

Jason wisch

My name is Jason Wisch, and I am a location manager. For those not in the know, a location manager finds the location that film, tv, commercials, and music use to shoot at. I work mostly in commercials and music video side. Read more>>

Lauren Song

The most meaningful project I have ever worked on is definitely the Dear Watsoville (2024) short film, which I was the illustrator for. Read more>>

Nicole Hitchcock

The most meaningful project I have completed to date is a body of work called Elemental. This collection of art was inspired by the tapestry of the unseen that spans across cultures, eras, and the vast expanse of our world—acknowledging the enduring presence of an entire invisible existence. Read more>>

Da’Dreion Murrell

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on was a Foster Care Awareness Tour as an artist ambassador of Music Is Unity where I was the opening act for Earth, Wind & Fire. Read more>>

Cynthia Remick

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on was the Uncommon Knowledge exhibit for SACCA and Roche Diagnostics. The exhibit paired visual and literary creatives with a Roche patient in order to raise awareness around the importance of early disease diagnosis. Read more>>

Frank Merle

I’m very pleased to say that the most meaningful project I’ve worked on is my current one: a feature film I’ve written, directed and produced called Namaka. Read more>>

Fernanda Vilela

The most meaningful project I have ever done is the short film Amentalio. This year, I decided to write, produce, and act on my own movie, and this has been a fantastic journey. Read more>>

Emanuel Harrold

The most meaningful musical project I’ve worked on is ‘Liquid Spirit’. By Gregory Porter. As our back story starts many year’s prior in pursuit of musical freedom through expression in New York music scene in Harlem at 149th & St Nicks. Read more>>

Jeff Friedman

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on is the feature film I co-wrote recently with my friend and improv teammate, Jess Hagge. We wish to dedicate it to the mental health clinicians who have changed our lives directly and to all mental health practitioners. Read more>>

Jay Stargaard

2020 marked the 17th year of Stargaard Art hand-crafting one-of-a-kind metal sculptures from stainless steel, bronze, and copper. Read more>>

Jill Forie

I’ve been super fortunate to work on a lot of meaningful projects throughout my journey as a customizer, but I think the most important and meaningful project yet is the pair of shoes that I’m currently working on for my son. Read more>>

Rosalie Alspach

My debut short film, “The Hostess,” of course, was a very special project with it being my first, and the theme being important to me, but I’m going to say, the one I’m actively working on, “If We Be Friends.” Read more>>

Ray Nash

My producer friend Sinclvire and myself had been working on samples & beats together for some time, he’s in Alaska and I’m in LA so we would just send stuff back & forth. Read more>>

Juliet James

My most meaningful project that I’ve worked on to date has been curating the “You Feel Me?” Exhibition at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. Read more>>

Zoe Marinello-Kohn

My passion as an artist is creating works that reflect relevant observations of the world around me. As a choreographer I have used topics such as the Women’s Movement, Climate Change, long distance relationships and personal health challenges as inspiration for my pieces. Read more>>

Cassandra Houston

The most meaningful project that I’ve ever worked on was my short film for my music video “Face”. I wrote, and recorded this song hours before I was supposed to play at the Metro Music Hall as an opener for a drag show in Downtown SLC, UT. Read more>>

Ken Honjo

In Japan, there is a saying, “ichi-go ichi-e,” which means that each moment is a once-in-a-lifetime experience and should be cherished. This idea comes from the world of tea ceremony, but it also applies to filmmaking, as no two films are ever the same. Read more>>

Eden Rountree

Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of staging a 1920’s Spanish-style home at 1929 N Hobart in Los Feliz. The moment I walked into this house, I was in love. Read more>>

Kelichia Wellons

One of the most meaningful projects, I’ve worked on, is my stage play production, The Men That Stole My Soul. This production took me many years to prepare and layout. I initially wrote my script as a screenplay. Read more>>

ASTRO

Four years ago I created “Public Enemy”. This collection stemmed from being able to think for yourself and judge for yourself, “Self enlightenment creates a Public Enemy”. -Astro Read more>>

Justice Butler

The most meaningful project I worked on was my homeless documentary when I attended Houston Community College, because that was my life experience at the time. Read more>>

Crystal Glaze

One of the most meaningful projects I’ve had the pleasure to be part of is with Maplestreet Pix, our local documentarian photographers. Read more>>

NHUNG NGUYEN

Finding meaningful projects involves connecting with like-minded individuals who share your passion. It’s essential to seek out those who care about the same causes as I do. Read more>>

Hannah Sandler

A body of work that I hold near and dear to my heart was one that I developed as a product of my Senior Thesis entitled ‘reJoy’. reJoy is the conscious pursuit to seek and create appreciation for small moments and details in life, Read more>>

Maurico

One of the most meaningful projects I’ve worked on is my forthcoming album, ‘Greater.’ This album, almost two years in the making, is a body of work born out of some of the toughest challenges I’ve faced—financial, mental, and spiritual struggles all collided during this time. Read more>>

Deborah Aschheim

Raleigh Stories, a project I have been working on with Raleigh Arts since 2020, has been a transformative experience for me, really thanks to the generosity and openness of Raleigh community. Read more>>

Jurne Smith

I would have to say that my most meaningful project I’ve worked on was my very first dance film that I choreographed, directed, and garnered funding for. Read more>>

Frances Kenney

The most meaningful project I have worked on is a body of work I call, “Win with the Stickers.” The title is a play on words from the phrase “stick with the winners.” Read more>>

Adam Rousseau

Every piece of art that I work on seems to have an equal amount of “meaning” to me: some are more focused on conveying a specific feeling or idea, and some are kind of nebulous to the point that even I can’t really make out what they’re about. Read more>>

Zwia Lipkin

2020 was marked by general and personal turmoil. When the year started, I was still mourning my father, who passed away in 2019. Then the pandemic hit, followed by rivalries between nations, racial tensions and political frictions. Read more>>

Frank Czajka

Ah, Guttervision! That takes me back. It was one of those subversive gems from the early ’90s that graced the public access airwaves. For those who aren’t familiar, public access channels were a quirky slice of television history. Read more>>

Yanmei Jiang

I have two projects that mean a lot to me: “Me and Me” and my current work on energy and color. In traditional Chinese culture, there’s often a preference for boys over girls. Growing up in a big family with many conflicts and traditions, I felt guilty and lacked confidence as a girl. Read more>> 

Linda Pullinsi

A recent project that was very meaningful was creating a mural with grandparents who are caring for their grandchildren as a professional teaching artist with Free Arts of AZ. Read more>>

Zaire King

One of the most rewarding as well as meaningful projects I’ve worked on has been my sophomore album titled “The Sire.” Prior to this album, I was strictly a jazz guitarist and very much a purist in that sense. Read more>>

Lisbeth Cort

Horrified and feeling completely helpless by the atrocity of the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, I could not sit by and just watch that war half a world away. Read more>>

Ezekiel Wright

By far the most meaningful project I’ve worked on is my debut album, Eastward, releasing to all platforms September 7th. This will be my first full-length album, and is a folk-rock concept album influenced by all I’ve been through in the last three years. Read more>>

Stacy Keith

Lubbock Cultural Arts Foundation manages the Lubbock Music Friendly Community certification. This designation is given to a city by the Texas Music Office. Read more>>

Yuqin Hong

The short film I just finished recently with my pals is quite meaningful to me. It’s a poetic sci-fi mockumentary shot on Super 8 camera about the last moments of a man (the director himself in 30 years) who’s been ‘stuck’ in the past time. Read more>>

MaKaylah Meredith

I have an upcoming single called “Careful” that I wanted to share with all of my followers! This project is so important to me because depending on how this record is received it could potentially open more doors for me and my music career. Read more>>

Chrys Seawood

In 2019, I co-authored a chapter in educationist Michelle D. Devereaux’s critically acclaimed Teaching Language Variation in the Classroom. Read more>>

Jim Madsen

As a blues band, we’re always honoring the history of where the music came from and how it originated. I needed content for our social media pages that wasn’t about “me, me, me”.  Read more>>

Laura Jean MCLAUGHLIN

One of the most meaningful projects that I have worked on is creating a commissioned tile mural for the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. Read more>>