A Great Script Isn’t Enough
Anyone who pays attention to the voluminous credits rolling down a screen at the end of a film will notice a number of mystifying job titles. Does every filmgoer know what a "gaffer" does? Or a "best boy"? But Catalina…
Double Dutch
For many in the audience for the Idyllwild Arts Academy Faculty Showcase on Friday, Sept. 13, the highlight performance came from someone who isn't an Academy art teacher, or a teacher at all. Instead, the highlight was new Director of…
Photography with a Journalistic Feel
Photo credit: Sidney Morgan Shaunna Lehr is posing a subject in the shade when she's approached for an interview. She asks her photography subject to wait for a few seconds. She steps into the sun to think about her schedule.…
Turning a Lemon into Lemonade
No one would choose to get struck in the face by a line drive, but the injury led to some good things for Andrew Moss. Idyllwild Arts Academy's new College Counselor was playing centerfield for his high school baseball team…
More New Faces
Picture above from left to right: Jennifer Chassman, Kirsten Miller, Allen Riedel, Yixuan (Maisie) Luo, and Jonathan Wickremasinghe-Kuhn. Besides the new faculty members in our Music and Film & Digital Media Departments, Idyllwild Arts Academy has brought several other brand-new…
Message from the President & Head of School
The students of Idyllwild Arts are now part of a long legacy of citizen artists who have contributed to the discourse and conversation for change in our country. Examples include choreographer Bella Lewitzky who stood up to the National Endowment…
That Boy Can Dance!
Pictured above: Dance Chair Ellen Rosa-Taylor's son, Jack, with former Academy dancers Carlos Martinez and Blake Lanesskog. Boys who want to pursue dance often face resistance. The resistance may have been exaggerated in Hai Cohen's case. "My parents always questioned…
A New Person for a New Job
The Idyllwild Arts Summer Program had ended. The Idyllwild Arts Academy year wouldn't begin for another two or three weeks. Besides Jennifer Chassman, there didn't seem to be another soul in Krone Library. Jennifer is the Academy's new Director of…
Doing the Hard Work
"I like saying to a student that you're in trouble, or that you have to face certain consequences for what you've done." Allen Riedel, Idyllwild Arts Academy's new Dean of Students, smiles. He can see that his interviewer is skeptical.…
Message from the President & Head of School
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…
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