Millions of free books were hand-delivered to unsuspecting individuals on Monday, April 23, around the U.S., U.K. and Ireland as part of World Book Night 2012 — “Spreading the love of reading, person to person” — including in Idyllwild. These happy Café Aroma customers were visited by “Book Fairies,” representing INK Book Gathering in Idyllwild, who gave them a few titles from a list of 30. A discussion of World Book Night followed on Tuesday at INK.

Idyllwild Arts (IA) is honored to host artist Shepard Fairey, class of 1988. He is one of several noted alumni artists to be feted on campus this month. Fairey is the renowned creator of works, such as the iconic Obama “Hope” poster and “Obey” street art, and is a featured subject of the 2010 documentary,…