Missy Isely-Poltrock

I am a collage/assemblage and then some artist, and I focus most on angels and pigs. My Angels are more abstract and not as I “see” them, but rather how I perceive them. They form themselves and share several different messages depending on the day. Lately my angels have been full of sass, the words that they carry on their wings have simply become marks to be released to the wind. They want us to be kinder to ourselves, to speak our “peace”, to be seen. They are reminders that tranquility exists. There is some angel in each of us. Truth. We forget. I strive to remind people, and I believe in collective healing, meaning that any healing any of us does helps to heal the whole. Thus my affection for SoulCollage®.

As a SoulCollage® facilitator, that specific collage process speaks to me as much as it does to my participants. I appreciate how art can help people find their voices, unwind certain things too long carried and set them down in ways that cannot always be accomplished with words.

I also have animal loves in my work. Turtles for perseverance, snakes for regeneration and forgiving yourself, owls for patience and knowing. Cats because cats. But most especially pigs. Pigs are misunderstood, have huge personali...

Carthage College BA
SoulCollage® certified facilitator

Active in the Midwest art scene. The Anderson Arts Center Winter Juried Show, Watercolor Wisconsin at the Wustum, Above and Below at Two Fish Gallery in Elkhart Lake, Together: Racine Kenosha at UW Parkside, invitationals at the Spectrum Gallery in Racine as well as the Antioch Fine Arts Gallery in Antioch IL, and multiple juried shows at Blue Moon Gallery in Grayslake IL. Member of the Lemon Street Gallery in Kenosha WI.