Pacific Arts Journal

Pacific Arts is the journal of the Pacific Arts Association. It is issued twice annually in a new series begun in 2006. Members receive Pacific Arts as a benefit of their membership. If you are not a current PAA member and would like to receive Pacific Arts, go to Membership to pay online. Copies of some past issues are available for individual purchase. See contact information below.

Contributions to Pacific Arts
Pacific Arts welcomes articles on the art of the Pacific region, especially papers on all topics pertinent to the visual and performing arts of the peoples of Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, Australia, and Indonesia. The editors encourage suggestions for special issues devoted to particular topics or regions, as well as for books, exhibitions, videos, etc., for review. Articles should be no longer than 5,000 words, with no more than 10 illustrations. Reviews (exhibition, book, video, etc.) should be a maximum of 1500 words and may include 1-2 illustrations. Articles solicited and unsolicited, will be submitted for peer-review and authors advised in writing of the decision within a reasonable amount of time. Upon acceptance of an article or review, high-resolution digital files (minimum 300 dpi in a jpeg format) will be requested. Please do not send any original slides or prints that need to be returned. Please use The Chicago Manual of Style (15th edition, 2003).

Contacts:
2008 Journal Editors:
Anne Allen, Indiana University Southeast: aeallen@ius.edu
Carol Ivory, Washington State University: ivorycs@wsu.edu
Virginia-Lee Webb, The Metropolitan Museum of Art: virginia-lee.webb@metmuseum.org

To become a peer reviewer:
Anne Allen: aeallen@ius.edu

Membership/change of address, etc., purchase of volumes previous to new series (limited availability) please contact PAA Treasurer:
Molly Huber: mhuber@artsmia.org

Purchase of past issues of New Series volumes:
Volo Publishing
77 Cayuga Avenue
Atlantic Beach, NY 11509

Click on the links below to see the table of contents page for each of the New Series volumes.


We hope you have enjoyed Pacific Arts, NS 6 2007, with feature articles focusing on masks of the Pacific. Contributors include: Antje Denner, Susan Cochrane, and Pauline van der Zee.

If you have not yet paid 2008 dues and would like this benefit of PAA membership, go to MEMBERSHIP to pay online (note new rates, approved at the Quai Branly symposium).

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We hope you have enjoyed Pacific Arts, NS 6 2007, with feature articles focusing on Pacific architecture and guest-edited by Anne E. Guernsey Allen. Contributors include: Anne Allen, Deirdre Brown and Naomi McPherson.

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We hope you have enjoyed Pacific Arts, NS 3-5 2007, a special issue in honor of Jehanne Teilhet-Fisk. Contributors include guest editors, Ping-Ann Addo, Heather Young Leslie, and Phyllis Herda.

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Pacific Arts, NS 2 2006, included four feature articles focusing on Melanesia. Contributors include: Antje Kelm, Antje Denner, Pauline van der Zee and Ross Bowden. Also included were book/catalog reviews, exhibition reviews, a review of the 9th Festival of Pacific Arts and a video review.