Mary Ann Sampson is an American artist living and working in Ragland, Alabama. Sampson is a book artist, specializing in miniatures and broadsides most of which are unique or one-of-a-kinds. She explores the book as a means of expressing visual ideas that stem from recollections of personal events and experiences that have been derived from living in her rural environment of Alabama. Sampson received her Master in Books Arts from the University of Alabama. Sampson founded the OEOCO PRESS (One-Eye Opera Company), whose mission is to make limited edition, letterpress books, bookbinding and unique (one-of-a-kind) books. Exhibitions Sampson's work has been exhibited in more than 50 venues since 1983 including locations in Germany, Canada, Atlanta, Birmingham, Chicago, New York, Washington, New Mexico. Her work has been shown extensively in galleries specializing with book arts venues including Agnes (gallery), Center For Book Arts, The Newberry Library, R. R. Donnelley Gallery, Sarah Moody Gallery, University of Alabama, University of Chicago, Birmingham Public Library, Wells Book Art Center, University of North Alabama and Syracuse University among many others. Sampson's work was included in "UPsouth" which traveled to several venues across Birmingham, including Space One Eleven, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Visual Arts Gallery, and Agnes. It showed the work of artists Emma Amos and Willie Birch and writer bell hooks, as well as Ann Benton, Priscilla Hancock Cooper, Karen Graffeo, Janice Kluge, Lee Isaacs, J. M. Walker and Marie Weaver. The exhibition was funded through the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts. She was included in "ABeCedarium: An Exhibit of Alphabet Books," juried by noteworthy peers William Drendel, book artist and Guild of Book Workers member; Paul Gehl of the Newberry Library and "ABC Books Then" curator; and Pam Spitzmueller, book artist and conservator at Harvard University. Sampson's work was exhibited alongside Emily Martin, Lucas Samaras, Claire Jeanine Satin, Christopher McAfee. This exhibition included a full catalog. In 2010, Sampson was selected to be part of "'A Reader's Art,'" curated by Jon Coffelt for Susan Hensel Gallery in Minneapolis, MN. This was a 10-year survey of artist's books including works by Pinky Bass, Janice Kluge, Joan Lyons, Qi peng, Luce, Beatrice Coron, Buzz Spector and Sara Garden Armstrong. This exhibition included a catalog. Works "Book Arts: Four Approaches" 1991 collaboration with Edith Frohock, decorative papers and binding by Paula Marie Gourley, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. "Ragland Birds"