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"Of People and Of Place" in Art in the City Revisited (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2009)

Contributor to Rethinking the Public in Public Art (Taipei: Dimension Endowment of Art, 2006)

"Musing on the Place in Art," in The Snow Show (London: Thames & Hudson, 2005)

Paula Toppila, interview with Mary Jane Jacob, "A Moment of Sharing - and Interview on Making and Mediating Public Art," Framework: the Finnish Art Review (2/2004)

Carolee Thea, interview with Mary Jane Jacob, "Bringing Art to the People: A Conversation with Mary Jane Jacob," Sculpture (March 2003)

Malcolm Dickson, interview with Mary Jane Jacob, "Kick Out the Jams: Mary Jane Jacob on Socially Engaged Practice in the U.S.," Matters (Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh), issue 16 (Spring 2003), p. 7-10

Contributor to Fugitive Sites (San Diego: InSite, 2002)

“On Locating the Public in Public Art,” in Sur l’experience de la ville: Interventions en milieu urbain, Marie Fraser, Diane Gougeon, and Marie Perrault, eds. (Montreal: Optica: un centre d’art contemporain, 1999)

Contributor to Public Art Review11, no. 1, issue 21 (Fall/Winter 1999), pp. 27-30

“Quem dono da cultura?” in Arte Publica (Sao Paulo: SESC, 1998)

“Points of Entry," The Carnegie Institute/Three Rivers Arts Festival (Ram Publications, Santa Monica, California, 1998)

“The ‘Public’ in Public Art,” in La Citta degli Interveni, Roberto Pinto, ed. (Milan: Comune de Milano, Progetto Giovani, 1997)

Essay in St. Paul Cultural Garden (St. Paul:  Place Press, 1996)

"Culture in Action: New Public Art in Chicago," Sculpture Chicago (Bay Press, Seattle, 1995) [essay “Outside the Loop” reprinted in El arte último a través de sus exposiciones manifiesto 1980-1995, Anna M. Guasch, ed. (Madrid: Editorial Akal, 2000)]

“Art on Location,” in Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennial v 1 (Melbourne, 1993)