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Installed in May 2015, after a chaotic en masse resignation of the previous board, the board of directors of the Art Alliance of Idyllwild has reinvented and redefined itself. At its annual membership meeting Friday, Feb. 26, the board reviewed its last nine-and-a-half months and unveiled plans for the future. AAI is steadied by a…
The Nature Center on Highway 243 continues its new speaker series with Dr. Norman C. Ellstrand, University of California, Riverside, professor of genetics. Ellstrand, an expert on plant gene flow and hybridization, will present the talk, “When transgenes wander, should we worry?” Ellstrand is an international speaker, invited to contribute policy discussions on this topic…
The Art Alliance of Idyllwild is known for its flagship events anticipated by patrons both on Hill and off. Coming on Saturday, March 12, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Rainbow Inn, is one of the most anticipated events — the Eye of the Artist, and this year it will be wild. “Wild” is…
Don Reed, Marshall Hawkins and Joey Latimer, newly dubbed ‘The Louie Bluies,’ perform on Leap Day night, Monday, Feb. 29 at Café Aroma.
Bob Leih, Idyllwild Middle School science teacher, continues a distinguished lineage of teachers. Both his mother and father were teachers. Leih is one of five siblings, all of whom have been teachers at one time or another. And Leih’s oldest daughter is a teacher in Orange County. The Hemet Unified School District recently announced Leih…
On Saturday, March 12, from 6 to 9 p.m., the Art Alliance of Idyllwild will host one of its largest fundraisers of the year, Eye of the Artist. One of three judged events planned for 2016, this particular art show will feature seven unique categories with first- and second-place ribbons being awarded per category. This…
More than 100 Idyllwild Arts alumni, from graduating years 1987 through 2015, are returning to campus for a reunion weekend honoring Marshall Hawkins Friday, March 4, through Sunday, March 6. For 30 years, Hawkins has lovingly told the story of jazz, inspired his students to find their individual voices and grow within this original American…
The interior of the nearly ready William M. Lowman Concert Hall, the new state-of-the-art music venue on the Idyllwild Arts campus. The beams visible in the ceiling are part of the acoustical design engineered by ARUP North America, the firm responsible for the designs of the world-famous Sydney (Australia) Opera House, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Tate Modern in London. The concert venue should open soon.
