Chelsea Bihlmeyer is an arts-based researcher of communication studies. She is a Fulbright Alumni and a PhD student at West Virginia University who pushes the boundaries on what it means to create, research, and interact with the world. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies at University of Missouri – Kansas City and her Master of Arts in Communication Studies at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Her work fluctuates between art and scholarship and has been shown in Kansas City, Dublin, Bloomington, Fort Lauderdale, Helsinki, and other cities nationally and internationally.