Many families in the town of Idyllwild are eating better thanks to the Academy alumni, students, and staff working with Mountain Communities COVID-19 Mutual Aid (MCCMA) to prepare and distribute food parcels once a week. The parcels, packed with food…
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,…
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…
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…
Former Idyllwild Arts Academy classical music students Jassen Todorov and Sarkis Baltaian have both been top prize-winners in a number of national and international competitions, Todorov as a violinist and Baltaian as a pianist. They’ve also been frequent collaborators, and their partnership continues this…
Yixuan "Maisie" Luo wants it understood that she'll still be a painter even if she pursues a Master's degree in theology. "A lot of my art is already drawing on theological themes, and that will continue." Maisie is the 2019-2020 Arts EnterpriseLaboratory Intern at…
Pictured above: With alum Yeong Su Kim (Class of 1995), Music Director of Busan Philharmonic. Idyllwild Arts Foundation President Pamela Jordan's plan to "further uplift talented students while giving those participating in the Summer Program a taste of life at…
The phone interview of Gerard Minaya had been long and enjoyable because the 2012 graduate of Idyllwild Arts Academy had so much to say. But as his interviewer was getting off the phone, Gerard had one more thing to add.…
"I didn't feel anything of a cultural shock at Idyllwild,” says Braulio Álvarez. “We'd come from so many different countries, but it was like we'd formed our own country of dance." Recalling 2005-2006, his first year at Idyllwild Arts Academy--where…
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