Maggie Leininger is currently a faculty member at the Art School at DePaul University and the founding director of the Chicago Center for Craft. Formerly, Leininger served as the director and curator of galleries at DePauw University in Greencastle, IN, where she also launched 10 Fold Projects, a community-centered art space serving the rural community of Putnam County. Organizing exhibitions, hosting workshops, and artist residencies was the primary goal of 10 Fold Projects, which concluded programming in September of 2025 when the renovated space was sold. Previous academic experiences include serving as the director of the International Honor Quilt, a companion piece to The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago, and as a visiting professor in the fibers department at Arizona State University. In addition to her studio practice, Leininger hones her textile design skills at Considered Cloth, a design studio promoting intentionally designed textile goods for home and body.

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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.