Pictured above: Kelly Chen Among the many honors earned by Idyllwild Arts Academy's graduating seniors, three stand out: the Richard H. MacNeal Award, Valedictorian, and the Outstanding Artist Award. In this very difficult year, those honors go, respectively, to Aurora Winger, Kelly Chen,…
“Trees are a form of public art,” says John Huddleston. That's enough to explain the sponsorship by Idyllwild Arts Academy’s Art in Society program of John's webinar on tree care this past May 14. The artists of Idyllwild Arts might not receive creative inspiration from…
It was the "haunting sound of the oboe in the Arabian Dance in The Nutcracker" that persuaded Idyllwild Arts Summer Program alum Jeff Paul to take up the oboe rather than another musical instrument. "That, and the fact that my dad was an…
Shelly Short’s first year as Chair of the Idyllwild Arts Academy Film and Digital Media Department has brought not only a change in name to the department’s leadership, but a change of approach. “I see this as an opportunity to…
Idyllwild Arts Academy graduate Celeste Headlee wouldn't have known that the COVID-19 pandemic was coming. Yet last month's release of her new book, Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving, happened to be well timed. Do Nothing became available…
Pictured above: Happy times before "corona blue": Youree (middle, smiling) and her Idyllwild Arts students at former Academy student Shepard Fairey's 2018 show in Seoul "The restaurants are open, but they're not busy like they used to be." Youree Jin, a…
During California's COVID-19 lockdown, Trevor Holmes has spent much of his time reading and catching up on TV shows, like a lot of people. And because he lives a mile above sea level in Idyllwild, where spring is still trying to…
Brent Michael Davids, of the Mohican Nation Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Native Americans, is well known as a composer for the National Symphony Orchestra, the Joffrey Ballet, and the Kronos Quartet. But to Michael Begay, among many young Native American composers, Davids may be…
Erica Nashan was the right person to become the new Coordinator of Idyllwild Arts Academy’s Art in Society program last fall. The success of the February 21 all-day Sustainability Symposium on the campus only confirmed Erica’s suitability for a job for which, unknowingly, she'd…
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