Working on something meaningful is a common desire – but how? We started asking folks to share the story of how they ended up working on a project they felt was meaningful because we wanted inspiration but also because we wondered if hearing from people from across a range of industries would help us identify patterns making it more likely for anyone to be able to find and work on projects that they would find meaningful.

Rob Jackson

Demonstrating what it means to be a better, stronger, and wiser person and using innovative collaborative programs and services to advance goals. Read more>>

Risa B

Our annual Juneteenth BBQ is one of the most meaningful projects I’ve done. This event is important because it represent freedom. It represents the strength and resilience of our community. Seeing so many black folks congregate at the beach, surf, bring joy and culture in spaces that we were once banned from is amazing and inspiring. Seeing the kids stand up on a wave for the 1st time and how their eyes light up, motivate us to continue to go hard for them. Read more>>

B. Jareal

Although I have been singing, writing, and arranging music for many years prior to the release of my debut album “No Holds Barred,” I would consider this project to be my most meaningful. Growing up in a singing and musical family, it was inevitable for me to take on such a strong passion for music. Read more>>

Ashley Johnson

Honestly, the most meaningful projects I ever worked is I worked on two albums with two different artists (Rob Cobain & Goyard Gotti). When I first met both of them, we just got straight to work and we have grown a closer bond. Past couple of years we just kept on working on music. Read more>>

The Tiarras

One of the most meaningful projects we’ve worked on is our song called “Soy Chingona”. The song has a deep message of empowerment and sisterhood that we hold close to our hearts. Inspired by the women who have kicked down barriers throughout history and our lives, we made sure we pushed that fire forward with the whole production. Read more>>

Slick Shawn

My most meaningful project I have worked on is an Album I released in 2017 titled “Godspeed” It gave me a chance to be experimental and have many collaborators. In total I collaborated with over 20 people and It was a great piece of work one that I would still put up to my works Im doing now. Read more>>

Alexis Taylor

One of my most meaningful projects that I have worked on to this day has been my newest single “Let Me Leave”. It is a song that I wrote after coming out of a really toxic relationship back in 2020, and is something that I think more and more people can relate to these days. Read more>>

Justin Croninger

I just finished producing the High Holy Day services for Temple Israel in Memphis, TN. This religious organization has over 5,000 families as members and on the most important days of the year they trusted us to deliver their powerful presentations. Read more>>

Davey Cook

Every project I do is meaningful, as most of my clients are celebrating a big event and I get to make them feel their absolute best on their special day. However, one project/s sticks out in particularly. I have had the honor of working side by side with Riley Couture from The Morning Show on Hot 99.5 throughout all of her special moments – red carpets, her baby shower, engagement photos, wedding day, etc. Read more>>

Art Realm Tattoo and Gallery

At our studio, all of us tattooists try to make every project a meaningful one, of course for our clients who trust us to mark their bodies, but also for us as artists, in order to be motivated and inspired by the work we’re doing. It always comes out better that way–when client and tattooer feel equally invested in the outcome. Read more>>

Melicia Terrell

I would say the most meaningful project I’ve worked on is the one I’m currently working on at this very moment. It’s my first solo body of work and an introduction of who Qween Meek is and what she’s capable of doing. Though it’s short this EP will be setting the bar for my entire career as well give my potential supports a taste of my versatility. Read more>>

Paige Nethers

My goal with Two Peas Paper Co. is to create meaningful pieces of art for all stages of life, so most projects I take on hold a very special meaning to my clients! But one I hold especially close to my own heart is when I illustrated Homegrown Education’s Early Childhood Curriculum. Read more>>

Ordinary Things

We are currently working on our first full-length album. It’s been a dream for years that we just kept putting off due to a lack of time and funding. During the pandemic, John spent a lot of time working to learn how to record and mix songs at home. Read more>>

Sean Taylor

Being from a small town in South Carolina that’s always talked down on and left out of bigger conversations, I carried that chip on my shoulder. I wanted to show people that Orangeburg, SC is a goldmine and has so much to offer, so in 2018 I set out to document my city and the people in it. What eventually turned into the documentary-series “Welcome to the Burg,” started out as a collection of footage I took just hanging out with friends. Read more>>

Ray Smith II

Helping people find the confidence in themselves is probably my most meaningful project I’ve worked on. It is important to me because I, myself grew up with confidence issues. Sure, I was big and strong, but I was also perceived as the “fat kid”. So, to help people find confidence in themselves is a heartwarming thing for me. I find that the “weird kids” in school become some of the most creative people. I have many stories, but I’d like to share just one now: Read more>>

Dean Regas

Most people have never looked through a telescope. I want to get people to put their eye up to the eyepiece, look at the craters of the Moon, the moons of Jupiter, and the rings of Saturn and have that one-on-one experience with the universe. Read more>>

Angel Hart

In 2020 after the murder of George Floyd, I created a project entitled “We Are Your Voices: A New Generation of Black Power”. This project was meaningful to me for a few reasons; It embodied the feel of the Black Community at the time of a tragedy that shook the nation and it also allowed me to work with a few local artist that I knew personally to work on their crafts, in the areas of writing, singing and spoken word. Read more>>

Nancy Jo Haselbacher

Recently I worked with The Getty Center in Los Angeles to create two didactic prints for the exhibition “Blurring the Line, Manuscripts in the Age of Print”. The exhibition featured items from the collection where text and image first began to be used together in books during the 1500s. Read more>>

Elijah Horton

As I became better at my craft as an editor and a videographer, I started to realize how freeing it was to be able as artistic as I wanted to be. I could pace the content, figure out the color tones of the visuals, and put whatever music I wanted behind it to set the mode for whoever would engage in what I created. Read more>>

SILENT AVE

My most recent project Noisy Boulevard is the most meaningful project I’ve worked on. I wrote it in a state of depression and self doubt! So much was going on around me from losing relationships to falling out with family and friends. Read more>>

Anthony Sal

I felt like I was trapped in a cage. It was very overwhelming feeling stuck living the same life day by day without a change of scenery. This was a sign that I had outgrown my environment and needed to make a change. Read more>>

Talisha Kaye

I’ve honestly worked on so many meaningful projects over the years, but I’d say the most meaningful project was being able to do makeup for a breast cancer survivor showcase. It’s such an emotional situation to survive something, whether it’s any form of cancer, domestic violence or any of the many adversities that we all face… Read more>>

Nick Hansinger

I didn’t necessarily want to be a musician. I just didn’t have any better ideas, and it was something I was good at, so I stuck with it. And as committed as I was to it, I always had an idea that there was something beyond the box I put myself in. Read more>>

Miles McMahon

Since I started Theatre of the Imagination in 1998, I’ve had many opportunities to work with amazing young people. One of the most inspiring was a young woman named Haley. Haley has Cerebral Palsy and is very dependent on assistance to feed herself, get dressed and move around. But Haley has a fiercely independent spirit, and does not let anything slow her down. Read more>>

Taylor Rae

My debut album, “Mad Twenties,” has been the most meaningful project I have worked on. This album was conceptualized when I was 21 years old, coming into adulthood and realizing how heavy and painful life can be sometimes. Over the course of nearly a decade I wrote songs that were little windows into the lessons I was learning, and experiences I was having. Read more>>

Arden Cone

My creative process has always been one of constant evolution, making it hard to thread out individualities within years-long series of works. For that reason, my projects—be they paintings, sculptures, or installations—become a single conceptual thread spanning decades. It is here, in this rich vein of ideas, that my art takes form. Read more>>

Robby Perkins

The most meaningful projects I’ve had the pleasure of working on are the concepts that I’ve designed for Daniel Reed Hospitality. We enjoy the privilege of living and working in historic Savannah, Georgia. There is more meaning and depth when a concept is genuine. Read more>>

Kirsten Hoving

I have worked on a variety of photo-based series, most notably “Svala’s Saga” and “Fabricated Visions..” “Svala’s Saga” was a collaborative project I did with my daughter, Emma. Powell. We devised a photographic fairy tale about the disappearance of the world’s birds and our heroine, Svala’s, rescure of them. Read more>>

Kartel Stylez

So I got the opportunity to make a pair of custom boots ordered by the one and only Tech N9ne himself. These boots were so special to me because it was one of my first orders from a celebrity but also these custom boots were being auctioned off for musicians who are struggling during Covid. Read more>>

Yuri Juarez

In 2016 I released an album called “Guitar Sapiens” with several orchestral works and compositions. It was those kind of projects that any indie artist dream about it. I mean with your own music, arrangements, musical production an important highlight in my career, One hundred minutes of music with all the styles I was influenced by, I am talking about jazz, classical music, flamenco, fusion, Peruvian music (I am from Peru) a huge crossover that represented the pallet of sounds I was carrying in my heart and brain.  Read more>>

Bryan Lyrics

My current project, Dear Whoever, Sincerely Yours, would have to be the most meaningful project of my career so far. This album is based on real-life events that occurred with me or my brother. You won’t know whose story is being told at the time, but you can trust that it happened to one of us. Each story contains a lesson that can help someone during their journey in life. I consider myself a master storyteller and this is my first album fully devoted to that skill. Read more>>

Jaclyn Matikas

As a tattoo artist, each project I take on is extremely meaningful, especially to the client receiving it. There are, however, a few projects that provide tremendous value for me as an artist. A lot of people seek tattoos as a way to cover up urgent or elective surgery scars, accident scars, self-harm scars and more. Other times, people get tattooes to commemorate life events, milestones, living and non-living people, mantras and hobbies. Read more>>

Elise Hurst

‘The Storyteller’s Handbook’ is a book full of creative narrative illustrations that we have just released into the world. Although I have been working on images like this for over a decade, and have found a wonderful following for them online and through markets and exhibitions, it is the first time I have been able to merge them with my publishing career. Read more>>

Veshone Cunningham

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on has to be my latest album entitled “I’ll Wait”. The reason this was more meaningful than other projects is because God told me to stop doing music. I was being consumed by jealousy, envy, selfish ambition and often compared myself to other artist which would either make me feel superior or inferior and I didn’t want to feel any of these things. Read more>>

Carlos Gayotto

Cosmic Love is a song considered an Anthem in my original country, Brazil, and it relates to love in all its complex spectrum. Read more>>

ANNIE JULES

My NEW MUSIC ALBUM “The Evolution of Annie Jules” sparks a huge monumental meaning in my life which speaks about the growth & the stages of re-development and then finally an evolutional restoration. Read more>>

Symphony Swan-Zawadi

Professional I started my career as an art teacher. Art has always brought me joy. While working in schools I noticed so many gaps, so much so, that I went to get a graduate degree to pursue my principals license. Read more>>

Milo Davis

The most meaningful project I’ve had the pleasure of undertaking is the series that I’m currently building. It is a seamless culmination of the experiences and lessons I’ve collected to date and the previous work which reflected those experiences. This body of work also totally aligns with the healing work I’m presently involved in. Read more>>

Maya Elizabeth

I write, record and perform thought-provoking music that soothes and inspires so you can connect more deeply with who you’re meant to be! Music has helped me on a journey of healing my self-image enough to be confident in my voice, embracing my authentic/imperfect self, and being vulnerable enough love to let others love me imperfectly. Read more>>

Cedric Jeter

One of the most meaningful projects that I’ve worked on recently is creative directing and choreographing for independent artists, doing live shows and music videos. Taking a step behind the camera and watching the creative process of my own creative visions have been very satisfying to see. Read more>>

Schuyler Rideout

One project that comes to mind is moving my art and product to a larger audience. Last year, I dedicated myself to creating an Etsy shop, and I’m thrilled to have made 130 sales to date! My paintings are now creatively reproduced on home décor items, luggage tags and stationery. Read more>>

Samaiyah Abdur-Rahman

The most meaningful projects that I have worked on are the art healing workshops that SJL Creations LC has sponsored at an elementary school, a juvenile detention center, and a homeless shelter. I had a premonition to teach and I channeled it into art healing workshops. Read more>>