Jennie Lea Knight (March 31, 1933 – March 23, 2007) was an American sculptor. Knight was a native of Washington, D.C., and received her artistic training in that city, beginning her studies with classes in design and music at the King-Smith School of Creative Arts. She then studied painting with Kenneth Noland at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, from which she graduated in 1951. She then spent four years at American University, during which time her instructors included Robert Franklin Gates and . In the early 1950s Knight turned her attention to work in three dimensions, and by 1964 was active exclusively as a sculptor. In the summer of that year she spent time working in the bronze foundry at the , casting and finishing her own work using the lost-wax method; she returned in 1965. She