MBA; Marketing and Corporate Development, University of California, Anderson Graduate School of Management, Riverside / Palm Desert.
Marek joined Idyllwild Arts as the Associate Dean of Admission and Financial Aid in January of 2004. He currently oversees the recruitment of students into the Moving Pictures, Music and Theatre department as well as marketing for the Admissions Department.
Marek resides in Idyllwild with his wife Michaela and their two children, Pierce and Easton.

Tara attended the Idyllwild Arts Academy as an Interdisciplinary Arts major for four years, graduating in 1994. In 1998, Tara graduated with honors from UC Santa Cruz with a BA in Psychology and an emphasis in dance. She received her Masters in Education and PPS credential from the University of Redlands in 2005 and is a member of the Pi Lambda Theta Honor Society. Tara has worked for the educational tour and airline industries in Boston and Austin, and has had her own massage therapy business. She has traveled extensively throughout the world, including Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Central America, the South Pacific, Africa and North America. Tara has worked in the Admission Office at IAA since 2005. Her passions are dance, travel, hiking and mountain biking.