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Learing Mind: Experience Into Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009)

Contributor to Presence (Louisville, Kentucky: Speed Museum of Art, 2006)

"Cultural Gifting," in Bik Van der Pol - with love from the kitchen (Rotterdam: NAI Publishers, 2005)

Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004)

Nicholas Drake, interview with Mary Jane Jacob, "The Art of Listening," ai:performance for the planet (Spring 2001)

“Competing for an Audience: Entertainment versus Education,” in Directors Choice: The Sixth Annual Directors Forum Transcripts (New York: American Federation of Arts, 2000)

Conversations at The Castle: Changing Audiences and Contemporary Art (Cambridge and London: The MIT Press, 1998)

Suzi Gablik, interview with Mary Jane Jacob, “Removing the Frame, interview with Mary Jane Jacob,” in Conversations Before the End of Time, by Suzi Gablik (London: Thames & Hudson, 1995)

“An Unfashionable Audience,” in Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art, Suzanne Lacy, ed. (Seattle: Bay Press, 1995) [reprinted in L’art exposé: Quelques réflexions sur l’exposition dans les années 90, sa topographie, ses commissaires, son public et ses idéologies, Bernard Fibicher, ed. (Kusnacht: Cantz Verlag and Musée cantonal des beaux-arts, Sion, 1995)]