The forthcoming publication of Idyllwild Arts Academy twelfth-grader Rome Smaoui's short story, "Days of Summer," in Narrative is a startling achievement for a high school student. Narrative is a top-tier literary journal. The number of Narrative pieces appearing annually in the prestigious anthology, The Best American Short Stories, compares…
Al Brockman, who graduated from Idyllwild Arts Academy as a Visual Arts major twenty years ago, has found his way back to Idyllwild to deliver COVID-19 rapid finger tests and train the Academy’s Health Center staff in administering them. …
During California's COVID-19 lockdown, Trevor Holmes has spent much of his time reading and catching up on TV shows, like a lot of people. And because he lives a mile above sea level in Idyllwild, where spring is still trying to…
“Native Americans. . . are in a constant state of mourning, knowing that our ancestors’ graves have been disturbed and their remains and burial goods removed to sit on museum shelves, all over the world.” The speaker is Desireé Reneé Martinez, a…
Idyllwild Arts InterArts Chair Abbie Bosworth's devised A Midsummer Night’s Dream had been a big success in October 2018. Working with Oglala Lakota students at Red Cloud Indian School, on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation, Abbie had generated enough fun…
Greg Robbins' face was probably less animated than that of the late Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) when he conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in Haydn's Symphony No. 88, using only his face. But Idyllwild Arts' new Associate Director of Orchestral Programs was…
Audrey Carver and Ben Cruz, two very different individuals, found the same love of a school and a town and the same world-class training for their art at Idyllwild Arts Academy.
Bizet's Carmen at the Narnia Festival Andrea DelGiudice, Director / Yuri Napoli, Asst. Director Giovanni Pacor, Conductor Cast pictured: Amy Maude Helfer, Ashley Rizzo (middle), Emily Vidler "In opera, women are usually victims." Ashley Rizzo Moss graduated from Idyllwild Arts Academy in 2005. Now she's…
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…
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