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Mary Jane Jacob is a curator who holds the position of Professor in the Department of Sculpture and Executive Director of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. As chief curator of the Museums of Contemporary Art in Chicago and Los Angeles, she staged some of the first U.S. shows of American and European artists. Shifting her workplace from the museum to the street, she has critically engaged the discourse around public space, organizing such site and community-based programs as “Places with a Past” in Charleston, “Culture in Action” in Chicago, and “Conversations at The Castle” in Atlanta. With the book Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art (University of California Press, 2004), she furthered her research into the nature of the art experience; her new anthology is Learning Mind: Experience Into. Her forthcoming co-edited anthologies are Learning Mind: Experience into Art (University of California Press, 2009) and The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists. (University of Chicago Press, 2010) At the 2010 College Art Association conference, she will be awarded the Award for Achievement in the Field of Public Art from Public Art Dialogue.