InterArts

For some young creatives, identifying a single arts focus can be challenging. On this track, students build skills through exploratory work in arts classes across departments before deciding on a major, receiving unparalleled resources and mentorship every step of the way. After a minimum of one semester and a maximum of one year, Exploratory Track students will either enter the InterArts Advanced Track or select a different arts major.

Required Courses:

• Interdisciplinary Explorations

For some multi-talented artists, creativity cannot be confined to a single discipline. This track allows students to experiment, stretch boundaries, and move fluidly between different arts disciplines, working both collaboratively and independently. To build their curriculum, they will choose a concentration: Design, Creative Writing, Storytelling, Digital Communication, or Performance.

Required Courses:

• Interdisciplinary Explorations (all years)
• Interdisciplinary Mind (one year)
• Independent Study (Juniors and Seniors)

Students declare an area of concentration in Design, Storytelling, Digital Communication, or Performance. Their chosen concentration shapes the curriculum they receive from our distinguished faculty. Concentration programming includes:

• Design
  With productions, performances, and exhibitions constantly taking place around campus, there is no shortage of Design opportunities at Idyllwild Arts! Students choose from Design classes in InterArts, Dramatic Arts, Fashion, Film, and Visual Arts.
• Creative Writing
  Publishing, Poetry and Fiction, Playwriting and Writing for Media are examples of workshops tailored to students who wish to concentrate on Creative Writing.
• Storytelling
  Myth, memoir, documentary, drama, webseries, graphic novel: one of the strongest human impulses is to create narrative, and in the InterArts department we examine the possibilities for storytelling from many angles. Students work closely with Film, Visual Arts, and Dramatic Arts to provide an interdisciplinary focus to storytelling.
• Performance Practice
  Students build traditional skills in Dramatic Arts, Film, Music, Dance, Visual Art, and Creative Writing while introducing an interdisciplinary element, making any form of performance possible. Students produce an original year-end performance with a central theme that highlights their personal passions.
• Digital Communication
  Go full S.T.E.A.M. through Digital Photography, Computer Graphics, Creative Technologies, Documentary Filmmaking, and other digital media. With your culminating show, put your imagination and innovation on display using cutting-edge technologies.