Nancy L. Pressly received her master’s degree in Art History from Columbia University. Beginning her career at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she subsequently held curatorial positions at the Yale Center for British Art and the San Antonio Museum of Art. She was Assistant Director of the Museum Program at the National Endowment for the Arts; a visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts; and founded Nancy L. Pressly & Associates, a nationally recognized consulting firm specializing in strategic planning for art museums. She has authored numerous publications, most recently a book entitled Settling the South Carolina Backcountry (2016) and her new memoir Unlocking: A Memoir of Family and Art. She and her husband live in Atlanta, Georgia, close to their son and two grandchildren.