Idyllwild Arts Academy

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.

• Name — Idyllwild Arts Academy • Address — 52500 Temecula Road • City — Idyllwild • State — California • Zipcode — 92549 • Country — United States • Established — 1946 • Type — Private, day and boarding Specialist arts school • Gender — Coeducational • Grades — 9–12, Post-Graduate • President — Pamela Jordan • Head Of School — Jason Hallowbard • Dean — Eric Bolton • Enrollment — 311 • Enrollment As Of — 2018 • Campus Type — Rural, San Jacinto Mountains • Campus Size — 205 acre • Accreditation — Western Association of Schools and Colleges • Affiliations — The Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) • Website — http: www.idyllwildarts.org

It offers a college preparatory program for grades 9–12 and post-graduates, with training in music, theater, dance, visual art, creative writing, fashion design, film, and interdisciplinary arts. An audition or portfolio is required for admission. 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 the regular school year, Idyllwild Arts Academy offers summer workshops that include Jazz in the Pines, ESL, Native American Arts.

• Casey Abrams, American Idol season 10 contestant and musician • Amanda Aday, actress • Neal Bledsoe, actor on Smash and Ugly Betty • Douwe Blumberg, sculptor • Evan Christopher, clarinetist • Shepard Fairey, artist • Greer Grammer, actress • Nora Germain, violinist • Trevor Hall, musician • Celeste Headlee, author and radio host • Marin Ireland, actress • Aaron Lee Tasjan, musician • Nate Lowman, artist • Orpheo McCord, musician, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros • Jennifer Missoni, actress • Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor and pianist • Liang Wang, oboeist • Mara Wilson, actress

In the television series The Fosters the character Brandon Foster attends a summer program in piano competition at Idyllwild. 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.