Hometown: Easton, MD

Sarah Ann Jump is an artist born and raised on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Her work focuses on storytelling through interdisciplinary mediums, including photography, interaction design, and book arts. After a career documenting others’ stories for newspapers, she has recently turned to telling her own family’s tales.

During the Waterfowl Festival, Sarah Ann will be exhibiting “The Island”, an artist’s book with handmade paper pages made from phragmites — the invasive reed species taking over the Chesapeake Bay’s wetlands — embedded with nature findings and scented with Old Bay seasoning. The instant film photography within captures a private hunting island threatened by sea level rise and preserves its sportsman culture.

She earned an MFA in interaction design from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and a BFA in photojournalism from Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. She currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, and frequently returns to the Easton area to work on projects and visit family. See more of her work at sajump.com and follow along on Instagram @sarahannjump.