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.

Ricky Wood

The most meaningful project I’ve ever worked on, believe it or not, is the project I’m working on right now. A play called “Mr. Wood’s Safe Space”. Reminiscent of shows like Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, but taking surreal inspiration from PeeWee’s Playhouse and Andy Kaufman. Read more>>

Kerry Schwartz

Helping people has always been something that gives me true happiness and fulfillment. There was a time in my life a few years back where I suffered from a Mental Health crisis. Read more>>

Josh Hogan

Andy & I came from a band called The Mowgli’s. We were a group mostly comprised of people who grew up together, so the connection was deep within our band. Read more>>

Allis Chang

My most meaningful project is called “Come Together” is a photography set that explores human connection. Though it is still unreleased, it was born from a desire to explore the multiple dynamics of connection visually. Read more>>

David H. Parker Aija Penix

The most meaningful project I’ve had the privilege to work on is the strategic planning initiative with Birmingham Black Repertory Theatre Collective (BBRTC), powered by Cricket Island Foundation. Read more>>

Mike Carbone

Many people seek happiness which is a fleeting emotion. I think it is better to seek meaning and life becomes fulfilling because a person has purpose and value. Read more>>

Lilwen Jones

At the moment, my most meaningful project is that of “Rose and Marrow”. A beastly adornment that was crafted to conjure images of how wild the earth can be. Read more>>

Kayla Shorma

Four years ago we began offering classes in our dance studio focussed on children with all abilities. For over a decade we had been operating as your typical dance studio and had an over 200 student client base. Read more>>

Ashley Antolin

As I’ve invested years into honing my craft and working on myself as a whole. In recent years, I have been much more interested in curating my clientele and the type of projects I work on. Read more>>

Larry Love

Won an international anti-tobacco poetry competition. Resulted in video/PSA being made. Meaningful because I had recently lost my mother to a lung disease. Read more>>

Mike Larry Draw

The most meaningful project I’ve worked on in my music career has to be a project I literally just finished one 3 weeks ago from Feb7 2024. Ive been working on this project for the last 4 years. Read more>>

Lisa Shalom

I have had the opportunity to speak my poetry on concert, festival and slam stages all around the world. It has been a trip. Spoken word poetry has served me so well on so many levels that I devised a program to share the medium. Read more>>

Emily Tolipova

A lot of the work I create falls at the intersection of education and conservation. I do wildlife illustration of both endangered and local species but a project that combined all these things while helping to educate and get people interacting with their environment was Austin Bird Bingo. Read more>>

Brandon Russell

I have plenty of meaningful projects currently out now available on all streaming platforms, and I’m excited to announce my new project, “MIND Over Matter” will be released on March 13, 2024! Read more>>

Susan Morgan Cooper

My film to the Moon and Back shows how Bill Browder, an American born financier and political activist, lobbies Congress to pass the Magnitsky Act …sanctioning Russians guilty of human rights abuse. Read more>>

Nicole Pierman

My first book, A Patriot’s Tale, took about twelve years to finish because I started it when I was twelve years old. I had no idea what I was doing, but that’s to be expected when you’re so young, so I don’t regret taking that long to finish it. Read more>>

Britta Cabanos

Producing Ethical Fashion Festival- in 2017 I started producing events around sustainable fashion, which lead to forming the annual Ethical Fashion Festival staring in 2020. Read more>>

Elizabeth Coplan

Elizabeth Coplan is a 40+ year marketing and public relations veteran whose career began as a struggling actor in New York City in 1972. After realizing that she could either eat or pay rent but not both, Elizabeth completed college and then became the managing editor of Chief Executive Magazine in New York. Read more>>

Allissa Logsdon

One of my very first music projects consisted of 6 singles and 2 music videos. These songs were written during a particularly challenging, lonely, and broken time in my life. Read more>>

Katherine Leung

The most meaningful project I have ever worked on is Canto Cutie, an art and literature magazine that I started in 2019. We’ve published seven issues and published the work of over 150 artists of the Cantonese diaspora. We’re now preparing for our eighth issue. Read more>>

Rumwolf

In 2023 I embarked on perhaps my most meaningful project to date. “The Big Free Picture”, an interdisciplinary multi-gallery installation and performance piece. Read more>>

Kitty Harvill

As a Signature member since 2009 of AFC – Artists for Conservation (https://www.artistsforconservation.org/artists/1364), I find that painting with purpose adds a level of passion to the work. Read more>>

Patrick McNamara

The most meaningful project I’ve been able to work on is a film I created in Ireland at a historic lighthouse. I was a passion project or spec film, so I did it primarily for the love of filmmaking. Read more>>

Kenya Feel Me

The most meaningful project I’ve done to date would be “The Queen’s Table”. I started this platform as a safe place for black women in Montgomery, AL to be their authentic selves. Read more>>

Michael Dolce

The most meaningful project I’ve ever worked on is my creator-owned, flagship comic book The Sire. It’s the story of a superhero forced by his own costume to fight evil. Read more>>

Maddie Witler

I’ve worked on many projects that were meaningful to me. Meaningful gigs, meaningful albums I’ve worked on, but one thing I think about is how to find meaning in whatever project I’m working on. Read more>>

Havish Ravipati

The most meaningful? Throughout my acting career, I have done so many that it is hard to choose! However, one production that comes to mind when I think of meaningful impact would be the 2021 production I performed in for Bay Area Drama Company called Our Stories. Read more>>

Jie Jian

For my degree project at RISD in Graphic Design, I created the project Sinful Magical Girls to celebrate girlhood. I wasn’t always comfortable about being a girl. My internalized misogyny slowly faded as I watched more magical girls’ cartoons. Read more>>

Candace Printz

In 2016 my students and I received the honor of being the sole winners in the nation for a community service project that promoted environmentalism and art. Read more>>

Jennifer Deann Scott

Between 2020-2021, I built a solo music performance project, Jennifer Deann Scott, or JDS Live for short. The concept was a live, multi-media, luxury listening experience comprised of mostly electric violin over backing tracks that I produced in my home studio, accompanied by Lightform projections*, and adorned in rhinestones and spandex costumes. Read more>>

Angelina Cintron

When you start off chasing your dreams at a young age in the music industry, you often will get many executives, higher ups, and anyone with more experience try to steer you in THEIR direction. Read more>>

Christine Rasmussen

One of the cool things about being an artist is that I’m always working on a meaningful (to me) project. In my current series of paintings, I’m exploring the idea of spaciousness and stillness as an antidote to the overwhelm, urgency and constant distraction of our phones/social media/24-hour news cycle. Read more>>

Gabrielle Archambault

One of the most important aspects of being a creative that I’ve learning in the last year, is to identify your why. What drives you as an artist. For me, its using my art, whether its acting, or writing, to reach out to my audience and help them feel as though they are not alone in their experience. Read more>>

Johanna Telander

The most meaningful project and a pivotal chapter of my career has been the creation of “Kalevala the Musical”, my debut as a composer and lyricist for large-scale works. Read more>>