Maggie Leininger is a visiting professor at Arizona State University and teaches woven structures, sculptural techniques and digital processes to students exploring fiber and materials. Some of Maggie's prior experiences include being an arts administrator and artist teacher at Marwen Foundation providing visual art instruction to Chicago youth and as an artist in residence at Snow City Arts providing hospitalized children with art education. Maggie also served as an adjunct faculty member at Roosevelt University where she developed and instructed courses focused on using the arts and art making experience as an activist and community building tool. She recieved her B.F.A. at School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her M.F.A. at Arizona State University, and exhibits nationally in group and solo exhibitions. Maggie has also been awarded several public art commissions with the most recent from Scottsdale Public Art where she developed a durational interactive work that invited audience participation while simultaneously constructing a textile referencing the place of Scottsdale, AZ. International exhibitions include a recent exhibition of Found Objects in Cairns, Australia. A recipient of several artist project grants from both the Illinois Arts Council and the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Maggie has traveled to Japan to visit indigo dyers and weavers as well as to the Jacquard Center in Hendersonville, N.C. to produce digitally designed Jacquard woven fabric. Maggie's current work encopmasses the development of ARTivention, a concept that explores the situational placement of art objects, interactive media, public collaboration and social action.