Cassidy Schoenfelder, or Poppy, (Oglala band of the Lakota Sioux) is a Minneapolis-based artist, geographer, and art historian. Raised in the Midwest, she traveled to complete her undergraduate degree in art at the University of Montana and then further west where she recently graduated with her Master's in the History of Art and Architecture from the University of Oregon. Her research applies ecocritical analysis to observe artists’ relationships to rural sites and ecoregions, particularly contemporary field-based artist residencies and their participants. As an Indigenous woman actively navigating her reconnecting journey, this intimate time in more-than-human spaces is also complicated by her passion for outdoor recreation. For Schoenfelder, a site’s complexities are often matched by the complexities living within one’s self.