Carley Schmidt is a multi-disciplinary artist motivated by her relationship to landscape. She utilizes aspects of printmaking, papermaking, photography and sculpture to explore place as part of a cumulative narrative about human impact and intervention. Schmidt attended the Glasgow School of Art in 2015 before graduation from Gonzaga University in 2017. Since then, she has exhibited work in places like Milwaukee, WI, Chicago, IL, and Sofia, Bulgaria. She has been the Artist-in-Residence at Ne’Na Contemporary Art Space in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and at the Tallgrass Artist Residency in Matfield Green, Kansas. Schmidt is a recipient of the Glenn R. Allen Art Scholarship and the Gabriele S. Haberland Travel Award. She currently lives on ancestral Ho-Chunk land in Teejop, where she is an MFA Candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Project Assistant at Tandem Press.