Visual Art – Kansas City

Ashley Bilke, graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, has participated in the 2016 and 2017 Kansas City Maker Faire and received the Silicon Web Costumers Guild Dreamcatcher award for Puppetry Innovation (2016). She has displayed work at Midamericon (Worldcon 2016), the Kansas City Fringe Festival, and has worked on numerous public art projects in Joplin, MO, including Spirit Tree, which was a memorial for the tornado victims of 2011. Ashley has worked with the Johnson County Public Library, Paul Mesner Puppets, and the Kansas City Renaissance Festival to produce puppets, costuming, set pieces, and sculpture.