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Eighteen Plein Air artists participated in the annual Art Alliance of Idyllwild’s Plein Air Festival over the weekend, coinciding Saturday with the Idyllwild Garden Club’s annual Garden Tour. Above, Rebecca Noelle was first place and co-winner of the People’s Choice award. Other winners were Toni Williams, second place; Joné Dupré, third place; Jennifer Ali, honorary mention and Artist’s Choice award; Rachel Welch, honorary mention; and Karlis Dabols, co-winner of People’s Choice award. Photo by Frazier Drake


When Max and Bee Krone founded Idyllwild Arts 70 years ago, they envisioned a place where people from around the world would come to create art, and through their creativity, fashion a better and more egalitarian society. Said Max, “The arts provide the best common ground for friendly cooperation among the peoples of the world….
Idyllwild’s own Erec VonSeggern made first chair in the Idyllwild Arts Wind Ensemble flute section.
By definition, nocturnes are pensive, dreamy and appropriate to the night or evening. The Idyllwild Master Chorale presents a gently evocative evening graced with a little night music for its April 1 Spring Concert. Set to the music of Morten Lauridsen and David Dickau, the haunting and touching texts of the featured nocturnes are penned…
Idyllwild Arts Academy (IAA) has announced the hiring of new Head of School Jason Hallowbard, presently vice provost for Academic and Artistic Education at Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. He will take over from present Head of School Craig Sellers this summer. IAA President Pamela Jordan hailed Hallowbard in a statement, saying his…
Idyllwild Arts Summer Program’s Native American Arts Festival week concludes with a public dance event on Cargill Commons. At 7 p.m. Friday, July 8, on the plaza between Lowman Concert Hall and the IAF Theatre, three dancers from very different traditional backgrounds will perform a collaborative piece and then perform their own distinctive dance styles….
The sign went up last week; Alpaca’s is once again the Mile High Café. Monday, Feb. 5 was the first day open under the new (old) name. After a well-earned, two-year break, Mile High founder Nam Park is “happy to come back.” Nam managed the restaurant for 14 years before “retiring” and leaving her son…