Gifted in bringing life to static museum collections, Traci Klainer has lighted objects that range from motorcycles for the Guggenheim Museum in Las Vegas and at Rockefeller Center in New York, to a whale skeleton for the Nantucket Whaling Museum. Other installation work includes exhibits at the Jewish Museum, the Chelsea Art Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, all in New York, and both traveling and special exhibits for the Smithsonian, including the Smithsonian's 150th Anniversary Tour.

Traci is active in the museum community and has chaired or been invited to speak on several panels at AAM, AASLH, and ASTC conventions with topics ranging from exhibitry in historic homes to designing and managing events in museum spaces.

Traci has a parallel reputation for her varied theatrical lighting design. She is credited with lighting over 100 productions - assignments that have taken her from Broadway, Las Vegas, and regional US theaters to Scotland and Japan.