Dena Haden is an installation and fiber artist from New Bedford, MA. She uses found wood, metal, fiber, wax, plant materials and kombucha culture to explore the natural cycle of something coming into form, living, ever-changing and malleable, and the residue it leaves in passing.

She views making art as a practice to connect; surfacing rhythmic energies and searching through sound, movement, material and her own state of awareness.
Haden received her BFA from UMass Dartmouth and her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. She has an extensive exhibition record with numerous solo and group exhibitions in Boston, Philadelphia, and around the Northeast of the United States. Haden has also exhibited internationally in Europe; Italy, Turkey and Japan. She was recently enrolled in a residency at the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Tennessee, Baroque Blue Residency in Nardo, Italy and is currently working in collaboration with Oika and the Maria Mitchell Association on Nantucket, MA as well as the Primo Piano Projects in Lecce, Italy. In addition to her own art practice, Haden is the founder and Director of the Co-Creative Center, a collaborative workspace for artists and is the co-founder for SuperflatNB, a Mural Arts organization in New Bedford, Massachusetts.