Stacy Phillips | Disrupting the Image: Mixed Media on Cardboard

Instructor: Stacy Phillips

Workshop: Disrupting the Image: Mixed Media on Cardboard

Dates: March 25-28, 2027

Hours: 9:30am – 4:30pm

Level: Intermediate

Class Size: 10

Tuition: $1850

Includes: Complimentary lunches and drinks served daily in studio

A Note From Stacy

“This workshop isn’t really about portraiture, even though that’s often where I begin. It isn’t about landscape or still life either. It’s about learning to see possibility in an everyday material. Cardboard has a history. It has texture, shape, imperfections, and character. As we cut it apart, rebuild it, layer into it, and respond to what it offers us, it becomes much more than a surface, it becomes an active participant in the work. Whether your imagery is representational or abstract isn’t what matters most. What matters is learning how your materials can help communicate your ideas.”

—Stacy Phillips

What happens when the surface becomes an active participant in the creative process?

In this four-day immersive workshop, we’ll explore the possibilities of mixed media on cardboard—a humble, accessible material that invites experimentation, risk-taking, and discovery. While I often use portraiture as a point of departure in my own work, this workshop is not limited to portraits. Whether your focus is landscape, still life,

Cardboard offers a unique opportunity to rethink how images are built. It welcomes layering, sanding, cutting, tearing, sewing, gluing, painting, drawing, and reconstruction. It can function as both surface and structure, moving fluidly between two-dimensional and sculptural approaches. Rather than treating the support as something passive, we’ll explore how the material itself can influence decisions and open unexpected directions in our work.