Amie Laird McNeel received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and her MFA from the University of California at Berkeley. She has taught sculpture in four academic institutions, serving as the Chairperson of Sculpture for fourteen consecutive years at the University of Utah and the Cleveland Institute of Art. She  currently teaches sculpture within the new 3D4M (3-Dimensional Forum) Studio Program at the University of Washington in Seattle.

McNeel has served on the Board of Trustees for the Salt Lake City Art Center; the Editorial Board for A Broader View, a journal of thought, criticism and debate in the visual arts; has served on several Public Art selection reviews; and has lectured widely at universities in the United States.

McNeel specializes in combining metal, clay, wood, and glass and has experimented with various materials as an artist in residence at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; The Studio at The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York; Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, Washington; and the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington. Her sculpture is in the collections of the Museum of Glass and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center and at Hahn & Loeser Parks in Cleveland and Cincinnati, Ohio.

Her work was recently featured in New Glass Review 34.