Welcome Yishay!

Yishay Mercy is an artist from Des Moines Iowa. She is a costume designer, marionettist, mask maker, and performance artist. Yishay has a love for historical costume, Victorian era history and culture, shadow puppetry, and the circus. She has worked previously in Washington state as an art teacher for afterschool programs, as well as leading a nature education program in the state of Iowa. In Vermont, she worked with a local children’s theatre, designing costumes and directing plays. In her free time, she likes to sing, play music, and create theatrical performances with her friends. She can often be found working on various art projects, with her cat Alamere, and two rabbits, Jacques and Poiret, snuggled near her.