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…
"Tipping is considered an insult in Japan," according to tenth-grade Theatre major Miko Ukaji, and eleventh-grade Cello major Heng-Li "Henry" Lin adds that "coming from Taiwan, I would naturally call my ESL teacher 'Teacher Harry.'" Idyllwild Arts Academy ESL teacher…
Kyle Thomas, who teaches in Idyllwild Arts Academy’s Visual Arts Department after graduating from the Academy in 2000, was born and raised near Koreatown and Paramount Studios, in Los Angeles. Becoming an artist was practically a birthright for Kyle, whose…
Idyllwild Arts Academy's eleventh-grade Theatre major Aurora Winger didn't exactly portray Ophelia when her department staged its “devised Hamlet" during her freshman year. Who’s There—a Reimagining of Hamlet was a creative adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy that split in two both…
Pictured Above: A Red Cloud student makes "Midsummer" magic. Idyllwild Arts InterArts Chair Abbie Bosworth had been apprehensive about her devised A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Red Cloud School, on South Dakota’s Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation. Abbie didn’t know Pine…
Greetings, There is a chill in our mountain air which means that the school year is well underway. Students are planning for their first performances and exhibits and our Enrollment Management team is already recruiting for next year’s class. It…
Michelle Do, the Arts Enterprise Laboratory intern at Idyllwild Arts, spoke rapidly, like someone with much to say who knows precisely how to express it. "I love playing the piano against that wall-of-sound background that twentieth-century Russian composers were so adept…
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…
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