

Painter was elected a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association in 1991 for her distinguished service to the field of Psychology.

A specialist in cross-disciplinary education, she served as guest professor and critic for an International Studio at the Bauhaus in Germany. Painter was a tenured associate professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, where she taught in the Psychology Department and the Schools of Architecture and Industrial Design. She received the Year 2000 Teacher of the Year award.


As a faculty member at the UCLA Architecture/Interior Design Program, she taught Fundamentals of Interior Design and Human Factors in Design, and, along with her design partner, Constance Forrest, Psy.D., developed and taught the first university-based course in Design Psychology.
