Maggie Leininger is an artist and educator utilizing visual art as an engagement tool to activate and strengthen communities. Leininger's studio practice explores the concept of opulence, specifically as it relates to textiles. Opulence visually represents the interconnected relationship between economics, labor, inequity, extraction, beauty, ethics, and consumption. Exploring pattern and decoration as a part of opulent representation, Leininger considers the role of textiles in representing wealth, status, and gender, all concepts she explores in her textile design practice, Considered Cloth. In tandem with her studio practice, Leininger runs 10 Fold Projects, an artist studio and gallery space in Greencastle, IN offering artist residencies, workshops, curated exhibitions, and other art-related programs. 

Leininger has been awarded numerous grants, fellowships, and artist residencies. Notable residencies and fellowships include support from Kala Institute in Berkeley, CA, The Present Group in San Francisco, CA, Scottsdale Public Art Commission, the Kentucky Historical Society, Mansfield Institute of Social Justice, Illinois Arts Council, and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Leininger has exhibited her work nationally including at the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, NM, the South Bend Museum of Art, and the Bridgeport Art Center in Chicago, IL.