Sentient Meat is a non-profit organization registered in Ohio that represents a collective of artists across all disciplines. Our mission is to foster growth for communities and artists through creative partnership, performance, and education.
We facilitate arts residencies, workshops, and community initiatives designed to foster creative skill-sharing, mutual aid, and peer-led learning in shared, educational settings. Our Artist Residency Program is offered through a revocable, license-based agreement and is explicitly non-tenant, provided in support of artistic collaboration and education.
Our organization is centered around the idea that people work better together, and that artists work better when they have access to the resources necessary to subsist. Supporting the arts strengthens the community in real and tangible ways, and when art is treated as the important work that it is, the benefits reach far beyond individual creators.
In a society where artists are often devalued, where institutional racism and inequality exists, and where social safety nets are heavily restricted and even more heavily stigmatized, it’s important to organize and create the resources we need to support each other and let communal effort prevail. We support artists through collaborative residency opportunities, shared studio and learning spaces, and access to tools and resources that help artists sustain their creative practice.
It’s a vast, cold, uncaring world out there. But as sci-fi fan writer Arthur D. Hiavaty once said, the whole point of society is that it’s supposed to be less unforgiving than nature. We have the ability to be more and to make it better by accepting each other and letting communal effort prevail. That’s where we come in.
