Journal History

This journal, which is managed by the Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Language and Arts, Universitas Negeri Medan, was first submitted for p-ISSN in 2007, with the p-ISSN submission ID 1180427379, precisely on Tuesday, 29 May 2007 with the publication name ‘Seni Rupa’. Where this journal has been given permission to be able to publish articles in printed form with its first issue since 12 August 2004 with Decree no. 0005.664/Jl.3.02/SK.ISSN/2004., starting edition 2004-08-12).  When applying for this p-ISSN, the contact person was Alm. Drs. Dwi Budiwiwaramulja, M.Sn., he was a Fine Arts lecturer at that time, who had enormous dedication to the formation of this journal, which we will never forget as the successor to the management of this journal. Finally in the same year, 2007, this journal received its p-ISSN licence with the p-ISSN number 1829-8230 (print media), with a 6-month publication period, where this Journal was included in the ‘Art Category’. However, due to constraints that we cannot write about here, the publishing process of this journal only runs until 2014. Responding to this is a problem and it is unfortunate if this journal must be lost in time because there are no more publications until 2023. We are here to rebuild this long-dead journal, with the hope that it can keep up with current developments, namely presenting it in the client version. However, there are several things we have to do for that, one of which is taking care of the online publishing process by taking care of the e-ISSN, of course, it must be able to publish two volumes of journals first, then it can be submitted, and we are in the process of fulfilling one of these requirements for this, by fulfilling two volumes of publications in one year, namely in the July-December 2024 period, volume 1 number 2 and the January-June 2025 period, volume 2 number 1. We did this because we could no longer re-enter the previous articles that had been published in the printed version, the file could no longer be found, so for this reason, with the jin of the department and faculty leaders, we came up with a ‘new taste but still with the old packaging’. Currently we have published one volume with 5 articles for volume 1 number 2 for the period July-December 2024, and so on we will continue to consistently publish articles in the next volume, number, and period.