Are you an emerging leader in the arts and art education world?   Then consider submitting a chapter to this exciting new book “20 Under 40: Reinventing the Arts and Arts Education in the 21st Century.”   The book will feature 20 essays by emerging leaders in the arts about the future of arts and arts education.  This is a great way to focus on your own beliefs and ideas while getting some publicity under your belt. Please visit 20UNDER40 for more info or join them on Facebook.  Good luck!

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Editor/Project Director: Edward P. Clapp, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Project Advisor: Eric Booth, The Juilliard School/Independent Arts Consultant

In light of the impending generational shift in leadership the field
of the arts and arts education is about to experience, there has been
much talk about the future: who will be our new leading arts thinkers,
administrators, policymakers, and practitioners—and in what social,
cultural, and political landscapes will these individuals operate?
While there is great concern surrounding this matter, little is being
done to provide a platform for tomorrow’s leaders to share their ideas
with the larger field.

20UNDER40—a new anthology of critical discourse—endeavors to collect
twenty essays about the future of the arts and arts education, each
written by an emerging leader under the age of forty. In doing so,
this collection of essays will provide a unique arena for new ideas by
formally gathering the thoughts of young artists, teaching artists,
administrators, researchers, and other arts and arts education
professionals— legitimizing the talent of young leaders by bringing their ideas out
of the margins and into the forefront of our dialogue.

Who is a Leader?

Artists, teaching artists, arts administrators, curators, arts
advocates, arts researchers—anyone who has an idea or vision for the
future is considered a leader under the aegis of 20UNDER40. If you are
a young arts professional under the age of forty and want to make an
impact on the field—we want to hear from you!

Suggested Themes

20UNDER40 is interested in publishing essays focused on a wide range
of topics. The intention of this anthology is to be as inclusive as
possible concerning forward-thinking theories, visions, and models for
21st Century arts and arts education. Successful chapter proposals
will identify a problem within the field and pose a solution;
highlight a need and articulate a new vision, and/or; debunk an
accepted theory or practice and posit a new one. Suggested topics may
include (but are not limited to) the following:

General Themes

•     Developing new visions for arts and arts education
management and institutional structure.
•     Transforming the arts and arts education to meet the
demands of the information-era.
•     Envisioning the role of the arts and arts education in a
global economy.
•     Employing the arts and arts education as a tool for social
justice in a globalized world.
•     Bridging the gap between the multiple facets of the arts
(professional artists, arts educators, arts researchers, arts
policymakers, etc.) to foster intra-sector alignment.
•     Investigating new approaches to arts and arts education advocacy.

Specific Themes: Arts Practice

•     Envisioning the changing role of the arts in 21st Century
society and culture.
•     Hypothesizing about the future of the disciplines.
•     Making art relevant to information-era audiences.
•     Discussing the future of intellectual property and
authorship in a digital re-mix world.
•     Developing relationships between the arts and other
industries/domains.
•     Exploring the arts and cognition in light of advancements
in neuroscience research.
•     Hypothesizing the pros and cons of a “post-art” world.

Specific Themes: Arts Education

•     Developing new pedagogical models for arts teaching and learning.
•     Applying arts education to “21st Century Skills” …and beyond.
•     Discussing the intrinsic vs. the instrumental value of arts
education.
•     Crafting new methods to measure the quality of an arts
learning experience.
•     Exploring the future pedagogical function of the arts in
times of high-stakes testing.
•     Arguing for and against the formal certification of teaching artists.
•     Redesigning BFA and MFA programs to better equip aspiring
artists with the skills necessary to be most efficacious in a 21st
Century cultural economy.

Submission Guidelines

Individuals wishing to propose a chapter to 20UNDER40 will undergo a
two-step peer-review process.

STEP ONE: Submit a 1-2 page (double-spaced, one inch margins, 12 point
font) chapter proposal via our electronic submission process
(www.20UNDER40.org) by 11:59 p.m. EST on Friday, August 31, 2009.
Authors will be notified of their acceptance status on or before
September 25, 2009. Successful chapter proposals will identify a
problem within the field and pose a solution; highlight a need and
articulate a new vision, and/or; debunk an accepted theory or practice
and posit a new one. Please include your name and email address on
each page of your chapter proposal.

STEP TWO: Selected authors will be invited to submit full chapters for
a second round of peer-review. Full chapters (4000-6000 words) are due
from invited authors on or before January 15, 2010. Guidelines for
full chapter submissions will be sent to invited authors. Twenty of
the full chapters received by invited authors will be selected for
publication. The target date to notify invited authors of the status
of their full chapter submissions is April 30, 2010.

All chapter proposals must include an electronic submission
coversheet.  (See website for details: www.20UNDER40.org)

The core ideas of all chapter proposals/full chapters must be the
original work of the author. Chapter proposals/full chapters must be
written in English. Multiple chapter proposals are permitted—please
submit each proposal separately. Submissions must be electronic word
processor documents (i.e. Microsoft Word documents). Please use the
following format to label your submission: “LASTNAME.doc”. Do not send
“.docx” files.

Who is the Audience?

20UNDER40 aims to be a readable volume of essays published for an
educated, though not overly academic, audience. This volume is
designed to serve a broad inter-generational readership including:
artists, teaching artists, arts administrators, arts advocates, and
arts researchers—as well as non-arts individuals ranging from parents
to national policymakers. While 20UNDER40 will not restrict
contributors to any particular tone or mood, we suggest prospective
authors craft their prose using language that would be suitable for
publication in The New York Times.
Eligibility

20UNDER40 welcomes chapter proposal submissions from individuals
practicing at all levels—and in all capacities—within the field of the
arts and arts education. In order to be eligible for inclusion in
20UNDER40 an author must be under the age of forty by the chapter
proposal submission deadline (August 31, 2009).

If you have any questions regarding our submission guidelines or
would like to learn more about this project, please visit our website:
www.20UNDER40.org