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.
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…
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…
Felix & Paul Studios' Emmy-winning The People’s House: Inside the White House with Barack and Michelle Obama suggests the potential of the Oculus virtual reality (VR) equipment that Neil Short uses. But Neil's Virtual Reality Filmmaking course at Idyllwild Arts…
I recently made a presentation to a funder that I titled, “An Unusual Year or a New Normal?” In spite of extreme weather and man-made catastrophes, the class of 2019 reminded us of the great work we do year after…
by Priyanka Sebeni, Creative Writing, 11th grade “Art isn’t linear,” Rachel Welch said, opening our interview by reflecting on the relationship between art and time. “Looking throughout art history, you can see that the discovery and process of art aren’t…
By September, Hannah Wakelin, Mark Beebe, and Cayla Regas will all be studying thousands of miles away from Idyllwild, in New Zealand, the Netherlands, and Tennessee, respectively. But it will take a lot more than one summer to make the…
The visit to Idyllwild Arts Academy by the Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) and San Diego's Voices of Our City Choir had left a profound impression on Academy students and faculty. The focus of the Academy’s Art in Society program on…
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