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…
Marshall Hawkins founded the Idyllwild Arts Jazz Program with the intention of giving young musicians the same kind of individual mentoring that he received while growing up in Washington, D.C., and later from jazz immortals like Miles Davis and…
Above: With Ira at 2006 graduation. "I owe Ira everything," says 2006 Idyllwild Arts Academy graduate Mayumi Maruyama, referring to former Academy Moving Pictures teacher Ira Abrams, who retired a few years ago. Mayumi and Abrams predated the department's renaming…
Pictured Above: "Just Below the Surface" by Michael deMeng Partners to a marriage probably shouldn't duplicate one another. What's the point of marrying yourself? Instead, they should probably complement one another. In that case, the Vancouver-based artists Michael deMeng and Andrea…
By Alan Lee, Creative Writing, 12th grade To someone unfamiliar with the Idyllwild Arts Ceramics Studio, its creaky exterior floorboards and unusual front door carved out of one of the building’s walls may appear daunting at first. What the studio…
"Our relationships to things raise questions about our roles," observes Idyllwild Arts Academy's new sculpture teacher, Chris Groth. "So the vast majority of the work I do has to do with our relationships to things." The shaping by things of…
