Jane CH Jacob is Founder & President of Art Vérité, a multimedia production company passionate about protecting artists’ rights through educational documentary films, curricula, and symposia that interpret the power of the law to protect artists. By illuminating art through the lens of the law, Jacob’s cinematic non-fiction narratives utilize artists' stories and combine legal and artistic expertise to navigate the realm of creative expression, with the objective of transforming the arts profession.

Jacob has over 30 years of experience in the fine arts profession, including positions at the Dallas Museum of Art, Worcester Art Museum, Deputy Director of the Terra Museum of American Art, and President of Jacob Fine Art, Inc., where she counsels clients on provenance, title disputes, misattributions, fraud, and the art market. Jacob also served as a professor at New York University for 16 years, leading curriculum development in the arts and writing program, and co-founded the annual Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Symposium at the School of Law. Her expertise in criminal and civil art cases revealed significant gaps in arts policy. Jacob said, “Art is a multi-billion-dollar business, and artists are at its center; however, they suffer copyright and fair use infringements, theft, forgeries, nonpayment, and dis-empowerment. The fact that these issues are not going away is what prompted me to launch the Art Vérité Film Library.”

Jacob’s passion for empowering artists and defending their rights reflects her family’s legacy of fighting injustice. A recognized leader in the visual arts, Jacob collaborates with internationally renowned art experts and organizations to drive meaningful change.