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ART OF THE GAME: A large hand-made chessboard was set up in the middle of the room. Students compete with each other at some games of chess Friday night during the visual art show opening at Parks Exhibition Center on the Idyllwild Arts campus. Photo by Jenny Kirchner — ART OF THE GAME: A large hand-made chessboard was set up in the middle of the room. Students compete with each other at some games of chess Friday night during the visual art show opening at Parks Exhibition Center on the Idyllwild Arts campus.
Photo by Jenny Kirchner

Idyllwild Arts had its first visual art show of the year Friday night at Parks Exhibition Center. Dozens of ceramic tiles, attached by Velcro®, could be moved and replaced with other tiles on a nearby table. Visitors were free to change them as they pleased. Photo by Jenny Kirchner

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Winery to host IDY LilithRock Fair
ByDavid Jerome March 12, 2024March 19, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Women’s History Month comes to Middle Ridge Winery the weekend of March22 to 24, as a team of Idyllwild’s well-known sisters in song presentthree special shows. They are calling the weekend “IDY LilithRock Fair,”combining a nod to Sarah McLachlan’s Lilith Fair with a reference toIdyllwild’s own Lily Rock, teasing the possibility of a new tradition….

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Gender fluidity is subject of IAA Symposium
By February 10, 2017June 7, 2017 Reading Time: 3 minutes

In 2015, Idyllwild Arts Academy faculty member Chris Wegemer, with the full support of IAA administration, launched the annual Art in Society symposium. The purpose was to involve, instruct and engage IAA students in a discussion of their roles as artists in an evolving society. At the heart of the annual event is an examination…

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Art Alliance elects new president
ByIdyllwild Town Crier July 5, 2017 Reading Time: 1 minute

The Art Alliance of Idyllwild Board of Directors elected Donna Elliot president last week, not long after President Rob Padilla assumed leadership from Shanna Robb on April 22. The AAI announced on May 26 that Elliot had joined the board as vice president and as being in charge of membership. Padilla now resumes his position…

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Landscape designer Mark Taylor listens to the land
By April 22, 2015January 15, 2016 Reading Time: 3 minutes

“For me, all design is emotional,” said landscape designer Mark Taylor. “I have to be patient and allow the design to generate. By listening and being slow, the land speaks to me.” Taylor forges landscapes, working with both the massive and the delicate — the boulders and the trickling water, steel girders and wooden decks….

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Tanzania village touches Idyllwild residents
ByKluzak, Tom & Kathy August 23, 2017 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Marshall Hawkins has had, by all accounts, a very eventful life, including touring with well-known entertainers and teaching students who would succeed in many aspects of life. The wisdom and grace he radiates certainly qualifies him to be Idyllwild’s ambassador-at-large. Therefore, when he says that his experience travelling to Tanzania with the Karimu Foundation was…

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Getting to know Ol Man Proffitt
ByDavid Jerome November 29, 2022December 29, 2022 Reading Time: 9 minutes

This week the Crier spoke with Steven Proffitt, aka Ol Man Proffitt, a transplant putting out new roots in our community, a retired journalist with new stories to tell. Proffitt was born 70 years ago in Houma, Louisiana, to a native Cajun mother and father who came south from Iowa after World War II to…

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