Herb Jackson: A Door Is Not a Window was published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title held August 26, 2017 through January 28, 2018 at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design at NC State University, co-curated by Lia Newman, director and curator of the Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College, and Roger Manley, director and curator of the Gregg Museum. The exhibition was one of three inaugural shows marking the grand opening of the Gregg Museum's first dedicated, standalone museum building.