Dobrina Dobreva didn’t practice the violin for thousands of hours to become a successful immigration lawyer. Yet the 2002 Idyllwild Arts alum personalizes the neuroscience suggesting that specialized study of classical music (and other arts!) produces broad, general, long-lasting benefits. In Dobrina's words, "The discipline of…
EYE ON ALUMNI: Matt Murphy If you’re old enough to remember when a cell phone sufficed as a lethal blunt instrument and laptops seemed built for Arnold Schwarzenegger, you’ll appreciate the designs that launched Matt Murphy’s business career. The 1988…
Pictured Above: Using metal stencils and kozo plant pulp for pulp painting. PC: Tak Abe First time working with an artist assistant. Awagami Factory, Artist Residency, Japan Art is the signature of civilizations. — Beverly Sills With six weeks to prepare…
EYE ON ALUMNI: Trevor Hall Trevor Hall admitted to being "wiped out" after the end of a tour of the Midwest and Northeast. Luckily, five weeks separate that tour's end from a ten-cities-in-twelve-days tour of Ireland, England, and Scandinavia. It's the…
Idyllwild Arts Alumni, Quoï Alexander AW18/19 is a continued exploration on how clothing manifests without sewing, a tradition more than 20,000 years old. His purpose is to go back to a time before sewing. View Full Article
Pictured Above: “Linked” on view at main entrance of “The Mothership”. PC: Richelle Gribble One of my favorite moments in art making is installation. This is when the idea and hard work reveals itself and the vision is realized. Incessant…
Sunlight Sofia Tellez Marquez didn't understand when asked if she felt she'd drawn the short straw. The expression probably isn't used in Mexico, and she comes from Torreón, in the state of Coahuila. Sofia had been asked to learn the…
EYE ON ALUMNI: Clay Alexander Drop into a Starbucks and there's a pretty good chance you'll run across something invented by Clay Alexander, who graduated from Idyllwild Arts Academy in 1994. Nearly 4,600 Starbucks stores carry the temperature control Ember Ceramic…
Pictured Above: The Chetwood, an artist-in-residence program and live-in gallery in Oakland, CA. PC: Terri Loewenthal While in San Francisco, I spent one week at The Chetwood, an artist-run residency and live-in gallery in Oakland, CA. Crossed over the bridge transitioning…
