Jeanne Quinn earned her B.A. cum laude in art history from Oberlin College and her M.F.A. in ceramics from the University of Washington. She has exhibited widely, including the Denver Art Museum; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Grimmerhus Museum, Denmark; Sculpturens Hus, Stockholm; and the Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan. She has been a resident artist at the MacDowell Colony, the European Ceramic Workcentre, the Archie Bray Foundation, the International Ceramic Center in Denmark, and the Kahla Porcelain Factory and the Ceramic Center-Berlin in Germany. She has lectured widely, including UCLA, USC, the Kansas City Art Institute, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and many others. She is a Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado. She lives and works in Boulder, Colorado.