Pattie Chalmers grew up and went to art school in Winnipeg, Canada. She received her BFA in printmaking from the University of Manitoba, and her MFA in ceramics from the University of Minnesota. Chalmers has exhibited in group exhibitions on five continents, in six countries and in thirty-four states and has had seven solo exhibitions in the past five years, most recently  Hinterland, at  Silverwood Park Gallery, St. Anthony, MN, and The Mudmaid Museum at the Sheldon Art Center in St. Louis.

Chalmers is a professor at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale where she teaches ceramics and is the Head of Graduate Studies. (Chalmers might be a little compulsive, and she definitely likes to laugh at her own jokes).