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.

Rome da Luce

I recently released a reimagining of ‘El Tango de Roxanne’ from Moulin Rouge, produced by Scott Welch and featuring the inimitable Jasmine Crowe on violin. We released a video on YouTube and it will be available for streaming soon! Read more>>

Caroline Gray

I have a number of projects. Two are represented in my ongoing show, Undercurrents, which focuses on my underwater series of dancers together with some California landscapes. Read more>>

Jesus Trevino

Last summer I founded an art nonprofit called Frontera Arts in Bloom to fund an artist-in-residence program in my hometown of Brownsville, Texas called the Flower Shop Art Residency. Read more>>

Olivia Simmons

I’ve been really fortunate to work on a few meaningful projects very early in my career, but two definitely stick out. One of them is a film called “You Can’t Run Forever,” which is coming out soon. Read more>>

Karen Watson

In my lifetime of being a visual artist, writer, and poet, I have had many projects that are deeply meaningful to me. I am grateful and excited to pair my haiku poetry with my fine art photography. Read more>>

Rachell Ellen Wong

The most meaningful project I have worked on is starting my ensemble, Twelfth Night. Named after the Shakespeare play, Twelfth Night is a historically informed ensemble, and we perform music from the early baroque to the contemporary. Read more>>

Kiamonique Martin

I never do anything just because, it must be for a purpose that aligns with my God given purpose for the purpose of God’s plan for me to be completed. Read more>>

Kelsey Blackstone

As a singer-songwriter, I get a special attachment to the songs I create. Many times, the song passes through a lot of trusted hands to get from my journal to streaming platforms. Read more>>

Hilary McAlister

The most meaningful project I have ever worked on is Storytellers: a show I created, directed, and choreographed. Here is the story about the birth of Storytellers. Read more>>

Marie Lestrange

Writing and creativity have truly been my guiding lights, leading me to a place of profound transformation and self-discovery through the completion of my debut Historical Horror Novel, Crimson Cobblestones. Read more>>

Ronnie Colquitt

The project that holds immense significance for me is my forthcoming body of work titled “Heaven Can Wait.” I’ve been intermittently working on this project since 2020, a year shadowed by the heartbreaking loss of my beloved little sister, Robin. Read more>>

Kai Gordon

There’s this new project that I am going to be introducing the rebrand/new way of how I’m going to be creating my work I’ve been working on the journey to creating “NEW SAINT” was a tumultuous one, marked by my personal failures and professional setbacks. Read more>>

Mike Fogleman

Pasadena has been a slow burn of a creative project. In 2019, we were pretty inactive as a band, if we were even a band at all. We were asked by some friends if we would be interested in reuniting and joining them for their show in the upstairs room at Smith’s Olde Bar. Read more>>

Agnes Chavez

The most meaningful project I have worked on is Space Messengers. Space Messengers is an Immersive Mixed Reality installation and international youth exchange exploring the universe through art, science and technology. Read more>>

Grace Hartrick

I have a few & both are symbolic to me for the same reason. I got an opportunity to make promo assets & a lyric video for Chelsea Cutler’s album When I Close My Eyes. Read more>>

Yanis Zambeis

I have been working on a project that I started in 2016. It is a continuous drawing on a 10 yard mixed media paper roll that sits on a special easel/display I built in order to show it and continue to work on it any were I take it. Read more>>

TyKaia Riley

This is a hard question to answer. Every project I’ve worked on has carried meaning to me, however, I would say the one I’m developing right now might be the most personal. Read more>>

Mo Osunbor

Build a Seat – A collective art project created for, and led by Black Creatives at Burning Man & beyond. Linkit.Black A project that encourages folks to use their own online platforms as media to promote diverse talent. Read more>>

Michael Lamarche

I’d like to think that if I knew my life was coming to an end soon and a loved one were to ask me what my most meaningful project has been I’d reflect on the massive project that is understanding my self. Read more>>

Eric Tomlinson

One of the more recent projects that really stands out as being meaningful is our very first Carousel figure as our own company. While my wife and I were building All Around Carousels, we started doing traveling work since we didn’t have a shop space yet. Read more>>

Xueyang (Lyncis) Niu

Reflecting on my journey as an indie filmmaker, one project stands out as particularly significant – my most recent film, “Before Firework.” Read more>>

Jared & Nicole

Eden Supper Club was created to be space to cultivate creativity. A platform to create experiences unlike those spent at restaurants. Read more>>

John Thornburg

The most meaningful project that I have worked on is actually being completed as I write this! My band Asterhouse is finishing a 15-song record. Read more>>

Jolly Gonos

Currently in work on my third full length album. I’m completely independent and record all of my music at home. My last album, Run debuted at #42 on the AmazonMusic Hip-Hop charts and #51 on the iTunes Hip-Hop charts. Read more>>

Hailey Reinke

I am grateful that in my career, so far, I have had the chance to be in some incredibly meaningful projects. Starting with the first project I was ever a part of, was the Netflix film White Noise directed by Noah Baumbach. Read more>>

U.S. Praveen

As an actor, you are only as good as your last work. That’s what the world will remember you by. There are many a times when some actors best works gets buried by their later work and sometimes its not for the best. Read more>>

Walt Anderson

I’ve lived in Prescott, Arizona since 1991, and for 27 years, I was a Professor of Environmental Studies at innovative Prescott College. In addition to ecology and conservation classes, I taught a course in Interpreting Nature through Art & Photography, as I have deep roots in the arts as a powerful complement to the sciences. Read more>>

CC Weske

My most meaningful projects to me have been the two short films that I have co-wrote and directed, Out of the Quiet (2019), and Planted (2023), both multi-award winning short films. Read more>>

Don Strong

The most meaningful project that I have worked on to date it is the documentary film My Summers of Love. It is an autobiographical and personal look at a youth camp-based approach to youth empowerment during the late 1960s, as well as the metamorphosis that I personally had as a troubled bi-racial teenage. Read more>>

Maria Dominguez-Morales

My most meaningful projects have been those where I include the community in the creation of a mural. These include students, members of a given community and collaborations which include other artist. Read more>>

Allison Duine

So many of our projects are meaningful, we focus on nonprofit and love projects with purpose. I think recently the most meaningful was a new online presence for The Good Samaritan Mission. Read more>>

DTO Music

Producing the yoga album “Nameless Energy” by DTO was profoundly meaningful due to its fusion of artistic expression and spiritual themes. Read more>>

Ker Chen

Growing up in a multi-religious family and being the first-generation college student in my family, coupled with my current life in a diverse city like New York, has sparked my interest in the ever-changing nature of cultural identity and the role that modern technology plays in shaping our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Read more>>

William Harris III

I’d have to say my most meaningful project was one from last year. I had a client/close friend who was getting married and needed a look for her rehearsal dinner. Read more>>

Lynn Buckmaster

Nature has always been my sanctuary. I suppose that would have been the case anywhere I lived but I was born and raised in NW Indiana. So peaceful landscapes especially those of the Indiana Dunes has inspired much of my work. Read more>>