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…
Since 2013, Classical Classroom has been educating listeners about classical music on NPR and other venues. When host Dacia Clay and producer Todd Hulslander learned about Idyllwild Arts Academy, they knew that the Academy’s outstanding classical music program deserved recognition…
Pictured Above: Naomi Kazama and Richelle Gribble prepare workspace for new projects at Awagami Factory. PC: Tak Abe There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign. -Robert Louis Stevenson After traveling 13 hours by plane,…
Pictured Above: Presenting my Artist Talk during “Brown Bag” at Planet/Terra Bella in Mountain View, CA. PC: Forest Stearns During my final weeks at Planet, I presented two artist talks to employees at the weekly “Brown Bag” lecture series. I showed Planeteers…
FACULTY FOCUS: Maygen Sandrini “I only attended UC Santa Cruz for two years. It was so beautiful that I couldn’t concentrate.” Yet Maygen Sandrini has found concentrating to be easy enough during her four years of teaching English as a…
The National Center for Education Statistics’ recent numbers (Link) reveal that school bullying is shockingly common. More than one out of five middle school and high school students admitted being bullied at school in 2013: twenty-four percent of girls and…
