{"id":2,"date":"2010-02-16T21:50:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T02:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s89155.gridserver.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-09-14T16:54:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T20:54:19","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/leeannpaynterphotography.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About Lee Ann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lee Ann Paynter is an artist, activist and educator.\u00a0 She is a Kentucky native and graduate of the University of Kentucky with a B.F.A. in Studio Art.\u00a0 She holds an M.F.A. in Photography and Media from California Institute of the Arts.\u00a0 Serving over ten years at her alma matter the University of Kentucky, she is a Senior Lecturer of Photography, Video and Public Art in UK&#8217;s School of Art and Visual Studies.\u00a0 Her oeuvre consists of traditional and digital methods of photography, video, installation and art interventions.\u00a0 Lee Ann\u2019s work takes on social and political issues investigating the ideas and agency around intolerance and acceptance, inequality, gender roles, and environmental issues, as well as the media\u2019s role in those representations.\u00a0 Committed to social justice she has both an active socially engaged practice and an active exhibition schedule.\u00a0 Lee Ann\u2019s work has been exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paynter.myportfolio.com\/\">Student work in Public Art<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lapayn2.myportfolio.com\/\">Student work from Lens Arts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lapayn2uky2.myportfolio.com\/\">Student work from Lens Arts 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lapayn2uky.myportfolio.com\/\">Student work from Digital Art<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Student Work \u2013 Images\" href=\"https:\/\/leeannpaynterphotography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Paynter.PortfolioStudent.2.16.2015ResizedImagesSM2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Older Student Work &#8211; Images<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Student Work - Videos\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4vA1EIe05AY&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Student Work &#8211; Videos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>contact: lee.ann.paynter at uky.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Lee Ann Paynter is an artist, activist and educator.\u00a0 She is a Kentucky native and graduate of the University of Kentucky with a B.F.A. in Studio Art.\u00a0 She holds an M.F.A. in Photography and Media from California Institute of the Arts.\u00a0 Serving over ten years at her alma matter the University of Kentucky, she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leeannpaynterphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leeannpaynterphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leeannpaynterphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leeannpaynterphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leeannpaynterphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":55,"href":"https:\/\/leeannpaynterphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/leeannpaynterphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leeannpaynterphotography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}