Pictured above: Art critic Dave Hickey, author of Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy, leads a discussion organized by Roland Reiss When he died on December 13 at the age of ninety-one, Roland Reiss left behind a distinguished record of…
Above Photo Credit: Deborah Small In the days after the recent death, at eighty, of longtime Idyllwild Arts Summer Program faculty member Barbara Drake, memories flooded the mind of Heather Companiott. Heather directs the Idyllwild Arts Adult Arts Center and…
The just-concluded Spring semester challenged educational communities everywhere. But no one familiar with Idyllwild Arts could have been surprised by the determined and creative response of our students to their new learning reality after the Academy's in-person, hands-on instruction ended in…
"I'm an academic, not an artist," says Bethany Hughes. But if the Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at the University of Michigan was apologizing for her public lecture on the Idyllwild Arts campus this past summer, there was no…
Pictured above: Kevin and Valerie Pourier “People don’t recognize the material when they see my work,” says the Oglala Lakota artist Kevin Pourier. “They expect Indian jewelry to be silver, so they see my buffalo horn and ask if it’s…
Pictured Above: Jaycee in Japan (left) and Milford's work (right). The Zuni pottery-making skills taught by Milford and Jaycee Nahohai for this year's Idyllwild Arts Summer Program will bring together the past and the future of Zuni pottery. Milford and…
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…
It's called the "Einstein visa." The nickname for the EB-1 visa that Javier Zamora requested gives a sense of the acclaim for the twenty-nine-year-old poet invited to the Idyllwild Arts Summer Program's upcoming Writing, Poetry & Writers Week. The EB-1…
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