After months of review, the twenty chapters for the 20UNDER40 anthology have finally been announced. The provisional titles for each of the chapters, the authors of those chapters, and brief descriptions of those chapters appear below.

The chapters in the anthology cover a wide array of topics that universally affect the arts sector, coming from young arts leaders representing dance, theatre, music, visual arts, and the literary arts as well as individuals working in film, digital, and new media arts. Despite the specificity of any one or another chapter, the issues addressed by each author have implications that stretch across our diverse field.

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1. Inventing the Future of the Arts: Seven Digital Trends that Present Challenges and Opportunities for Success in the Arts By Brian Newman

In this chapter Brian Newman first analyzes seven trends that have the potential to profoundly influence the future of our arts organizations and then provides recommendations for how to capitalize on these trends.

2. The Epoch Model: An Arts Organization with an Expiration Date By David McGraw

Why do we design our arts organizations to last forever? In this chapter David McGraw lays out an argument for what he terms a "limited lifespan" organization—a unique approach to establishing arts organizations with predetermined end dates.

3. Redefining "Artistic" Administration By Sue Landis and Jessica Rivkin

Using original empirical data, Sue Landis and Jessica Rivkin articulate what is artistic about arts administration, and how the next generation of arts leaders can capitalize on these findings in new and exciting ways.

4. Structures for Change: Recommendations for Institutional Reorganization Based on the Workplace Interests of Young Arts Professionals By Edward P. Clapp and Ann Gregg

Based on a pilot study of the career interests of young arts professionals, in this chapter Edward P. Clapp and Ann Gregg first present the five big issues they found to be of the most importance to tomorrow's arts leaders and then offer suggestions on how we can change our arts practice today to best foster the growth of our field's highest potentials.

5. Please, Don't Start a Theater Company!: Next Generation Arts Institutions and Alternative Career Paths By Rebecca Novick

In the past fifteen years the number of non-profit theater companies has doubled while audiences and funding have sharply declined. In this chapter Rebecca Novick explores alternative pathways for emerging and mid-career artists, introduces new models for arts institutions, and posits a 21st Century definition of "sustainability."

6. Audiences at the Gate: Re-Inventing Arts Philanthropy Through Guided Crowdsourcing By Ian David Moss and Daniel Reid

The explosion of amateur and semi-professional art in the Internet age presents deep challenges for the sustainability of traditional arts funding structures. Ian David Moss and Daniel Reid propose a new model that would open up the philanthropic decision-making process far beyond the ranks of professional program officers and four-member grant panels.

7. Failures, Losers, and Screenwriter Wannabes: Storytelling for the Screen in the 21st Century By Michelle Bellino and Michael Bellino

While websites devoted to user-generated content give the illusion that anyone can make it in the movie business, brother and sister filmmakers Michelle and Michael Bellino question whether this is the case, especially when the gap between those who have power and those who are powerless in the profession of film is daunting—and growing.

8. Ctrl C + Ctrl V: The Rise of the Copy and the Fall of the Author By Casey Lynch

In our digital era the concept of cut, copy, and paste is changing how we understand notions of originality, copyright, and intellectual property. In this chapter Casey Lynch problematizes the idea of originality in 21st Century art making while discussing the challenges digital technology poses to traditional notions of artistic authorship.

9. Embodied Anatomy as a Method For Igniting Kinesthetic Empathy By Shannon Preto

As dance become increasingly reliant upon digital media to develop more visually extravagant performances, Shannon Preto argues that dance is becoming disembodied from its visceral roots. By presenting an argument for embodied anatomy and kinesthetic empathy, Preto proposes a return to the corporeal experience in dance.

10. Arts Participation in the 21st Century: An Administrative Perspective of Arts Participation from Portland, Oregon By Elizabeth Lamb

Based on original qualitative research, Elizabeth Lamb highlights what innovative arts organizations in Portland, Oregon are doing to capture the attention of Gen X and Millennial arts audiences.

11. The "Why" of Arts Organizations in the DIY Era: Institutional Support for the Do-It-Yourself Artistic Generation By Claire Rice, Michael Mauskapf, Forest Juziuk, and Charlie Hack

How do old-school arts organizations capture the attention of the under-forty DIY set? In this chapter Claire Rice, Michael Mauskapf, Forest Juziuk, and Charlie Hack present three case studies from Michigan's University Musical Society that successfully give agency to audiences by offering radical young arts presenters a seat at a time-honored table.

12. The Art of Higher Learning: The Creative Campus and the Evolving Phenomenon of University Arts Engagement By Eric Oberstein

In this chapter Eric Oberstein takes a careful look at the Creative Campus movement—first investigating a series of case studies that apply the interdisciplinary arts program to various higher education contexts and then offering suggestions as to where the Creative Campus movement may go next.

13. Riding through the Borderlands: Sustainable Art, Education, and Social Justice By Marissa McClure

Having identified a gap in pre-service training for arts and visual culture educators interested in working in non-traditional settings, Marissa McClure highlights the best practices of an ongoing program that places university students in contact with a bicycle salvage community arts organization.

14. Re-thinking Critique: Questioning the Standards, Rethinking the Format, Engaging Meanings Constructed in Context By Mariah Doren

Mariah Doren examines how the idea of originality is presented to students in art schools and how meaning construction and objective assessment work at cross-purposes in traditional critiques. This chapter argues that an emphasis on originality in college art teaching is an impediment to a more open dialogue about meaning in artwork.

15. Half a Million Years of Art History: How the Human Origins of Art Can Change Arts Education Today By Jeff Lieberman and Eric Gunther

In this chapter Jeff Lieberman and Eric Gunther review the evolutionary purposes of the arts and advocate for a greater sense of symbiosis between the arts and the sciences to keep aesthetic development at the core of our survival as a species.

16. Creating a Fourth Culture: Methods for Developing a Symbiosis Between the Arts and Sciences to Address Climate Change and Cultivate an Interdisciplinary Future By Rebecca Potts

Noting the environmental crises of our times, Rebecca Potts argues for stronger bonds between the arts and the sciences for the purpose of establishing a fourth culture that has the capacity to more artistically—and effectively—address our climactic conundrums.

17. The Conflicted Brain: The Impact of Modern Technologies on Our Cognition and How Arts Education can be the Keystone to Whole-Mindedness By Jennifer Groff

In this chapter Jennifer Groff combines new research in digital media and neuroscience to make a compelling case for Whole-Mindedness—the utilization of the brain's multiple coding and processing systems through exposure to the arts in educational settings.

18. The New Fundamentals: Introducing Computation into Arts Education By Kylie Peppler

Will the ability to creatively code be the foundation of our personal, aesthetic, and professional futures? In this chapter Kylie Peppler discusses how to artfully prepare students for life in the digital world.

19. Adults, Appreciation, and Participatory Arts Education By Danielle La Senna

As adult arts audiences grow and change, we must account for how we design our adult arts education programs for a population of learners that spans 80+ years and have drastically different needs. In this chapter Danielle La Senna discusses key elements of the new adult arts education.

20. Handprint Turkeys and the Cotton Ball Snowman: Is There Hope for an Artful America? By Bridget Matros

In this chapter Bridget Matros first looks carefully at how art-o-phobic parents and early childhood educators are squelching the creative capacities of students (before they even reach kindergarten) and then offers us advice on what we can do to foster a sense of creative exploration in the youngest amongst us.