It’s been nearly one year since we decided to take a hiatus from Idyllwild Arts’ annual Jazz In The Pines festival. Since that decision, I have met bi-monthly with several key figures of Idyllwild Arts to consider how we might…
Pictured above: With four-year advisee SooYeon Kim at Graduation on May 18 Wasted on the Young is the title of Dr. Don Stoll’s first novel, partially inspired by the paradoxical quote, “Youth is wasted on the young.” The quote is…
Pictured Above: Erin Crites Idyllwild Arts Academy Theatre Chair Bonnie Carpenter has no doubt about the benefits of her department's recently begun partnership with Fiasco! Physical Theatre. A handful of Fiasco! ensemble members take turns driving up the mountain from…
Felix & Paul Studios' Emmy-winning The People’s House: Inside the White House with Barack and Michelle Obama suggests the potential of the Oculus virtual reality (VR) equipment that Neil Short uses. But Neil's Virtual Reality Filmmaking course at Idyllwild Arts…
Pictured above: Kevin and Valerie Pourier “People don’t recognize the material when they see my work,” says the Oglala Lakota artist Kevin Pourier. “They expect Indian jewelry to be silver, so they see my buffalo horn and ask if it’s…
I recently made a presentation to a funder that I titled, “An Unusual Year or a New Normal?” In spite of extreme weather and man-made catastrophes, the class of 2019 reminded us of the great work we do year after…
Idyllwild Arts Academy graduate Dr. Amber Pairis, of the Class of 1992, directs the Climate Science Alliance and has a leading role in developing the 2019 Southwestern Tribal Climate Change Summit, coming to the Idyllwild Arts campus August 13-16.…
by Priyanka Sebeni, Creative Writing, 11th grade “Art isn’t linear,” Rachel Welch said, opening our interview by reflecting on the relationship between art and time. “Looking throughout art history, you can see that the discovery and process of art aren’t…
By September, Hannah Wakelin, Mark Beebe, and Cayla Regas will all be studying thousands of miles away from Idyllwild, in New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Tennessee, respectively. But it will take a lot more than one summer to make the…
The visit to Idyllwild Arts Academy by the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) and San Diego's Voices of Our City Choir had left a profound impression on Academy students and faculty. The focus of the Academy’s Art in Society program on…