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Stage, television and motion picture costumer and fashion designer Noelle Raffy is the next speaker for the popular Idyllwild Community Center Speaker Series. She will discuss and illustrate “Costume Design From Creation Concept to Screen and Stage.” “I grew up as a backstage baby,” said Raffy. Both parents danced professionally — her father, Patrick Frantz,…
Local resident David Salk has called our mountain community home for 50 years, having moved here in the fall of 1970. In that time, his one-of-a-kind pieces of art have graced the tables and cabinets in people’s homes all over the country. Salk has been working with clay since his early years. He attended Laguna…
Editor’s note: This feature ran in the Town Crier on Nov. 4, 1976. Gladys Humphreys died in January 1979 at age 83. “We used to have a view of Lily Rock and Marion Mountain, but the trees grew faster than this house,” laughed Gladys Humphreys, cozy in the modest home that she and her late…
For J. Barrett Cooper, Idyllwild Arts Academy Theatre Department chair, a playwright’s words are the most important component in producing and presenting a play. “I’m not going to lose the play for a director’s concept,” he said. “The text must support the concept. We serve the playwright, not the director’s concept of a play.” He…
The Anza and surrounding High Country Communities of talented artists will present their work at the Heart of the High Country Holiday Art Show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 10. An artists’ reception with refreshments will be from noon to 2 p.m.
Idyllwild Arts Academy (IAA) created its own podcast — “One World. One Idyllwild. The Series.” The podcast premiered March 30 and was aired on IAA’s YouTube channel. This podcast series will spotlight artists from all backgrounds, showcasing how they have been shaped by the transformative power of art. In the first episode, Idyllwild Arts Foundation…