Idyllwild Arts Academy is a private school located in Idyllwild, in the San Jacinto Mountains and San Bernardino National Forest, within western Riverside County, California. The school was founded in 1946. It was previously known as Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts.[2] Joy in the Making (1967) is a documentary about its summer arts program made by filmmaker Virginia Garner, who became a Trustee Emeritus of the Board of Governors and Trustees of the Idyllwild Arts Foundation.
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Type | Private, day and boarding Specialist arts school |
Established | 1946 |
President | Pamela Jordan |
Dean | Eric Bolton |
Head of school | Jason Hallowbard |
Grades | 9–12, Post-Graduate |
Gender | Coeducational |
Enrollment | 311 (2018[1]) |
Campus size | 205 acres (83 ha) |
Campus type | Rural, San Jacinto Mountains |
Accreditation | Western Association of Schools and Colleges[1] |
Affiliations | The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) |
Website | www |
It offers a college preparatory program for grades 9–12 and post-graduates, with training in music, theater, dance, visual art, creative writing, film, and interdisciplinary arts. An audition or portfolio is required for admission.
The academy is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).
It was the first independent boarding high school for the arts in the western United States.
Idyllwild Arts Academy offers programs including music, visual arts, theatre, creative writing, dance, fashion design, film & digital media, and interdisciplinary arts. Outside of regular school year, Idyllwild Arts Academy offers summer workshops that include Jazz in the Pines, ESL, Native American Arts.[3]
In the television series The Fosters the character Brandon Foster attends a summer program in piano competition at Idyllwild.[26]
Author Justin Cronin confirmed on Twitter that Idyllwild Arts Academy eventually becomes the community called First Colony in his book The Passage as humanity tries to survive one hundred years into a vampire apocalypse.[27]
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