​An Artist Talk with Sheena Dham

​How does collaboration across disciplines shape the creative process, and what does it take to build a sustainable artistic practice?

​Musician, composer, and collaborating artist Sheena Dham will reflect on her practice as a freelance artist working across sound, visual art, and performance. Drawing from projects spanning dance, extreme sports, and documentary film, she will share insights into her creative and collaborative process, the role of resourcefulness in an emerging career, and how community can open new opportunities for artistic work.

​Through examples from her projects across different media, Sheena will discuss the possibilities and challenges of interdisciplinary collaboration, followed by an open discussion and audience Q&A.

​About the Artist

​Sheena Dham (she/her) is a Gujarati American musician, composer, and collaborating artist who uses sound to bring stories of the peripheral, emerging, and third-culture experience to life.

​Her practice is grounded in the framework of "musical rematriation," an approach centered on intentional listening, trusting oneself, slowing down, using resources mindfully, understanding physical environments, deepening familial roots, and supporting communal healing and joy.

​Her work and live performances have been featured at SXSW (Austin), the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the de Young Museum (San Francisco), Proyectos Públicos (Mexico City), and Harvard Graduate School of Design (Cambridge). She has also collaborated with outdoor brands including Red Bull, Burton Snowboards, The North Face, and Arc'teryx, and contributed to documentary films featured at CANNESERIES and beyond.

​Alongside her collaborative practice, she releases experimental, multi-genre music with Psychic Eye Records.

​Learn more about her work on her website or Instagram.

​This Artist Talk is part of our new Patch Bay series:

​A weekly series of workshops, demos, and talks for media artists creative technologists in the Bay Area

​​Wednesdays, 6 PM

​Patch Bay is a new weekly series for anyone in the Bay Area who wants to get hands-on with emerging technology, grapple with the big questions AI is raising in creative fields, and connect with the wider world of media arts, design, and engineering. It's a space to plug in for newcomers who want to get involved at Gray Area for the first time, and for longtime members of our community ready to share new, experimental work.

​We keep the format flexible from week to week, so there's room to experiment, talk, and learn. You might catch a workshop on building poetic tools for the web, a round of lightning talks on agentic AI experiments, an artist talk on immersive installations, or a live-coded audiovisual performance that turns code into sound and image in real time. No two weeks look the same.

​All Patch Bay events are sliding scale, NOTAFLOF.

​Got an idea for a future session?
Email learn@grayarea.org and tell us about it.
We especially want to hear from people who've been looking for a way to share their bold, critical, and creative work at Gray Area but weren't sure where to get started.

​Event Logistics:

​Talks are open to all ages. Children under the age of 16 should be supervised by a parent.

​This artist talk will be seated in the theater.

​View our FAQ page for more information, or contact us at info@grayarea.org with any accommodation requests.