About

Jess Santana is an interdisciplinary artist from Northern New Jersey, focusing largely on illustration, papermaking, printmaking, photography, and sculpture. Through her works, she strives to find the humor in less-than-ideal situations and aims to provide comfort within these uncomfortable topics.
Santana received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from William Paterson University and is currently pursuing an MFA in Printmaking from Tyler School of Art and Architecture within Temple University. She has exhibited at Wassaic Project and has had photographs used in articles for National Audubon Society. She has received awards from groups such as International Photography Awards.
She has interned at EFA’s Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop as a teaching assistant and has been part of Snowfarm: The New England Craft Program’s work/study program. She previously worked as a Photographer at Morris Animal Inn and as a Production Assistant at book bindery Conveyor Studio. She continues to do freelance photography and currently works as a studio assistant/instructor at Mud Clay Studio, and a teacher At One River School.