Idyllwild Arts Academy

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.

Joel Gennari, Artist. Emmy Award winning puppet builder for The Jim Henson Company. Book illustrator for Soman Chainani, Victoria Aveyard, & Harper Collins

• Casey Abrams, American Idol season ten contestant (placed sixth) and musical artist. Released a self-titled debut album in 2012.[3]
• Clayton Alexander, inventor.[4]
• Amanda Aday, actress.[5][6]
• Neal Bledsoe, actor on Smash and Ugly Betty.[7]
• Douwe Blumberg, noted sculptor.[8][9]
• Evan Christopher, clarinetist.[10][11]
• Shepard Fairey, artist.[12][13]
• Greer Grammer, actress[14]
• Trevor Hall, musician.[15]
• Celeste Headlee, author and radio host [16]
• Marin Ireland, actress. 2009 Tony Award Nominee, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play, reasons to be pretty.[17]
• Aaron Lee Tasjan, musician.
• Nate Lowman, artist.
• Jennifer Missoni, actress.[18]
• Michael Tilson Thomas, internationally recognized conductor and pianist [19]
• Liang Wang, oboeist. Principal oboe at the New York Philharmonic.[20]
• Mara Wilson (Class of 2005, Theatre), actress.[21]

• Lisa Adams, painter
• Suzanne Jackson, visual artist and dancer
• Michael Kabotie, Hopi silversmith[22]
• Bella Lewitzky, Modern dancer and founding chair of the Dance Department at Idyllwild Arts Academy (1956–1972).[23]
• Mary Stone McLendon, Chickasaw artist and educator.[2]
• Eleonore Schoenfeld, cellist and longtime professor at University of Southern California (USC) at the Thornton School of Music.[24]

In the television series The Fosters the character Brandon Foster attends a summer program in piano composition 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.[25]

• Official website
• The Association of Boarding Schools profile