Fearless Faces: Workshop with Dayna Collins

Fearless Faces: A Workshop with Dayna Collins

One-day class: Saturday, September 27, 2025; 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Workshop fee: $125 

Materials fee: $25 

Please bring a sack lunch for our 30-minute lunch break.  

Dayna’s idea for Fearless Faces started in 2011 when she was discovering her artist voice. With no formal art training, but several years of taking art classes and a strong sense of curiosity and a bold spirit of exploration, she began painting a series of crazy, colorful faces. She painted these faces on the pages of an over-sized atlas and found pieces of wood. Since that time, her art practice has blossomed into the life of an abstract painter and collagist.   

This September during her Artist-in-Residence (AIR) at the SAA, Dayna will be diving back into her Fearless Faces, excited to explore this topic using the skills she has developed over the past 20 years of a dedicated art practice. As part of her residency, Dayna will be teaching a one-day workshop where participants will paint their own version of Fearless Faces.  

Using prompts, warm-ups, and lots of art materials, Dayna will guide everyone through loose drawing and painting to create Fearless Faces. This workshop will be a fast-paced, lively day of artmaking, with a focus on color, abstraction, and pushing limits.   

Materials fee includes the supplies that will be provided:  

• Acrylic paint 
• Paper for warmups 
• Substrates for Fearless Faces 
• Pencils and a crazy amount of mark making materials 
• Brushes and palette knives   
• Reference photos 
• Handouts 

Students to bring:  

• Journal for notes (and warmups) if desired 
• Paint clothes or an apron if you are messy 
• If you have favorite brushes or palette knives, please bring them.  
• A spirit of exploration and curiosity 
• Sack lunch and something to drink

Please note: This workshop is limited to 12 individuals! We recommend registering sooner rather than later.