Lanie is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship, the Tennessee Arts Commission/Owens-Corning Visual Arts Fellowship, and the Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship. She has produced, independently, two books, Nom de Plume, a book of drawings, and Book of Ruby, a story with illustrations, published with funding from the Tennessee State Museum. Her work is included in, Scratching the Surface, Art and Content in Contemporary Wood, Guild Publishing, and The Penland Book of Woodworking, Lark Books. Lanie taught sculpture for 18 years at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. She maintains a public art practice, and personal art practice while caring for her family. Her work of late has shifted from years of making narrative sculptures out of wood to a new creative impulse of working with paper.