Pacific Art Persistence, Change, and Meaning

Cristian Arevalo Pakarati is a graphic artist and the great-grandson of famed Rapa Nui informant Juan Tepano. He joined Jo Anne Van Tilburg's Easter Island Statue Project in 1989, where he is Project Artist. His work on Rapa Nui includes award-winning participation in the annual Tapati Rapa Nui arts festival Joshua Bell is currently completing a DPhil at at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford Liz Bonshek is the Collection Manager for the Anthropology collections at the Australian Museum, Sydney, where she has worked with the Pacific Islands collections since 1987 Shirley Campbell is currently a Visiting Research Fellow with the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University George A. Corbin is Professor of Art and Chairman, Department of Art, Lehman College (CUNY) Barry Craig: he has been Curator of Foreign Ethnology at the South Australian Museum since 1995 Philip J.C. Dark, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale William H. Davenport is emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania Judy Flores is a research associate with the Richard Flores Taitano-Micronesian Area Research Center at the University of Guam Peter Gathercole is an Emeritus Fellow of Darwin College at Cambridge Phyllis Herda is a Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand Anita Herle is Curator for the anthropology collections at the University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Steven Hooper is Director of the Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK Carol Ivory is Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Washington State University, where she has taught since 1992. Adrienne L. Kaeppler is Curator of Oceanic Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC Eric Kjellgren is Evelyn A.J. Hall and John A. Friede Assistant Curator for Oceanic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York Carol Mayer is Senior Curator at the Museum of Anthropology and lecturer in the department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of British Columbia Vincent Megaw is Professor of Visual Art and Archaeology at Flinders University of South Australia Roger Neich: Has been the Curator of Ethnology at Auckland Museum for the past fifteen years, and has recently been jointly appointed as Professor of Anthropology at the University of Auckland Angela Neller is Curator of Collections for the Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Philippe Peltier is Curator of the Oceanic Collection at the Musee National des Arts d'Afrique et d'Oceanie in Paris. Marcus Schindlbeck is Curator of the Department of Oceania at the Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin Nick Stanley is Director of Research and Postgraduate Studies at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England Karen Stevenson is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Victor Totu is a cultural officer working for the Guadalcanal Provincial Government in the Solomon Islands JoAnne Van Tilburg, FRGS, is Director of the Rock Art Archive, a research unit of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles Eric Venbrux is Senior Research Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Nijmegen, and teaches economic anthropology and Pacific studies Deborah B. Waite is Professor of Pacific Art History at the University of Hawai'i. Virginia-Lee Webb is Associate Research Curator in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Robert L. Welsch is a Visiting Professor of Anthropology at Darmouth College and an Adjunct Curator of Anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, IllinoisHerle, Anita is the author of 'Pacific Art Persistence, Change, and Meaning' with ISBN 9780824825560 and ISBN 082482556X.