Out of the Comfort Zone
Idyllwild Arts Academy’s already distinguished classical music faculty’s latest coup is the addition of violist Jonathan Moerschel of the Calder Quartet (calderquartet.com), whose “superb” work, according to The New York Times, “still provides fertile ground for innovation and surprise.” The…
Trying Again
It's called the "Einstein visa." The nickname for the EB-1 visa that Javier Zamora requested gives a sense of the acclaim for the twenty-nine-year-old poet invited to the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program's upcoming Writing, Poetry & Writers Week. The EB-1…
Message from the President & Head of School
In October, I had the good fortune of attending the Seed & Spark Summit in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It was a gathering of school leaders, makers, and innovators who are on the cutting edge of educational reform in the…
No Surrender
Janet Fitch’s three novels—White Oleander (1999), Paint it Black (2006), and The Revolution of Marina M. (2017)—make her supremely qualified to lead the April 5-7 Spring Writers Retreat on the Idyllwild Arts campus. But she points out that Idyllwild is also…
