Lanora Pierce has worked for the Georgia Museum of Art in the department of exhibitions and design since 1996 and has installed hundreds of exhibitions and facilitated many traveling exhibitions. She holds a BFA (1996) and MFA (2005) in drawing and painting from the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art where she received a research and performance grant from the Center for Humanities and Arts (2005) and was recipient of the Mike Nicholson Scholarship for study abroad in Cortona, Italy.  As an artist, her paintings and sculpture have been included in numerous exhibitions across the U.S. as well as in Italy. Most recently her work was in the juried exhibition, Looks Good on Paper, 2007 at the Spruill Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia. She has also shown at the Fay Gold Gallery, a premier contemporary art gallery in Atlanta and Chicago, Illinois.  Pierce has also been an active committee member, officer and volunteer for the Univeristy of Georgia staff council, executive staff council and the Carter-Coile Country Doctor’s Memorial museum in Winterville, Georgia. Currently she is a member of the Lyndon House Arts Foundation board of directors in Athens, Georgia.