We are pleased to announce that Pacific Arts, vol. 26, no. 1 has been released as an open access, peer reviewed, online journal published through the University of California’s eScholarship platform. Content details are included below. You can view/download the individual contributions or the full issue.

We have an ongoing open call for submissions on the arts of Oceania and its diasporas focusing on visual arts, material cultures, and heritage arts (including research-based creative work). The scope is temporally broad, highlighting both historical and current topics while engaging with a wide range of creative mediums, forms, and subject matter. Pacific Arts encourages interdisciplinary approaches to examining the political, social, economic, cultural, aesthetic, and environmental stakes in the production and study of Indigenous visual and material cultures in Oceania, past and present. Please send full-length submissions and an abstract to pacificarts@ucsc.edu (see Submission Guidelines for more info).

Pacific Arts is also accepting reviews of books, media, and exhibitions that relate to visual and material cultures of Oceania. Authors, artists, museums, and publishers interested in having their work reviewed and anyone interested in writing a review should contact pacificarts@ucsc.edu.

We hope you will renew your membership or join the Pacific Arts Association. Your membership supports open access and the very existence of Pacific Arts and contributes to diversity, inclusion, and access in Pacific Islander visual and material culture studies. To join or renew, please visit the Pacific Arts Association website.

We are grateful for your support and hope you enjoy reading Pacific Arts. Please share the journal link with family, friends, and colleagues!