Mimi McPartlan received her BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2012. Since then, she has assisted KleinReid in New York City, been a resident artist at Künstlerhaus Stadttöpferei Neumünster in Germany, Shangyu Celadon Modern International Ceramic Art Center in China, and The Clay Studio in Philadelphia. Mimi has made work for the retailer Anthropologie and published in Ceramics Monthly. Recently, she has completed an MA in Contemporary Design at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland and graduated in 2020.