 She was one of the women invited to participate in the "National Indian Women's Art Show" hosted at the Via Gambaro Gallery of Washington, D. C. in 1980.The next year, she and her sister were participants in the Kennedy Arts Center′s exhibition "Night of the First Americans" in Washington D. C. The following year, the Indian Arts and Crafts Board hosted a solo exhibition, "Painting by Jane McCarty Mauldin" at the Southern Plains Indian Museum in Anadarko, Oklahoma.In 1985, Mauldin participated along with her sister Valjean and Mary Adair (Cherokee), Jean Bales (Iowa), Joan Brown (Cherokee), Sharron Ahtone Harjo (Kiowa), Ruthe Blalock Jones (Delaware-Shawnee-Peoria), and Virginia Stroud (Keetoowah Band Cherokee-Muscogee Creek) in the "Daughters of the Earth" exhibit which traveled for three years (1985–1988), touring in the United States and Europe.