Greetings from Idyllwild, What do you want to be when you grow up? This was a question that many of us heard throughout our adolescent years. The implications of that question were two-fold. First, it seemed that we were expected…
Audrey Carver and Ben Cruz, two very different individuals, found the same love of a school and a town and the same world-class training for their art at Idyllwild Arts Academy.
Bizet's Carmen at the Narnia Festival Andrea DelGiudice, Director / Yuri Napoli, Asst. Director Giovanni Pacor, Conductor Cast pictured: Amy Maude Helfer, Ashley Rizzo (middle), Emily Vidler "In opera, women are usually victims." Ashley Rizzo Moss graduated from Idyllwild Arts Academy in 2005. Now she's…
Pictured above: Tabitha (red hat) with WUTI team. "Think of it as a film festival with the vibe of a music festival," says Tabitha Denholm. The Women Under the Influence founder is talking excitedly about WUTI Goes IdyllWILD, which debuts from…
Pictured above: Paloma (foreground) with fellow WUTI intern Mikala Alatorre "The women who work there are the kind of people I want to know and be." It's telling that Paloma Perez, who graduated from Idyllwild Arts Academy in 2018, appreciates…
Reina Meek had spent three years in Saudi Arabia. She lived in Ras Tanura on the Saudi Aramco compound for expatriate workers, teaching science and mathematics to the children of engineers. "But teaching Idyllwild Arts Academy students is way different," the…
Music is Idyllwild Arts Academy's biggest arts department, accounting for more than a quarter of the school's roughly three hundred and twenty students. The Academy's last two Outstanding Artist Award winners have been Music majors, and the Music Department has…
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…
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