Ida Harris

LOCAL ARTIST

Drawing and Theater Arts

Ida Harris has been drawing since she first picked up a pencil. Her mom, Gail Harris, a ceramic artist, encouraged her. Ida grew up in the mountains and forests surrounding Round Valley, imagining fairies of all kinds and putting them down on paper with colored pencils, watercolors and charcoal. Ida is mostly self-taught. She did take one of Jim Bequette's Mendocino College Drawing classes here in Covelo.

Favorite artists are fantasy artists: Kay Nielson and Arthur Rackham and Rennaissance masters like Michelangelo, Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci. Ida especially enjoys fantasy art and would eventually like to create a comic book. She spends her days, now, at The University of California at Santa Cruz, studying lots of science with a major in Psycho-Biology: the study of how the brain works.

Ida spent the summer of '99 working with The Round Valley Community Theater's production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," playing Titania, Queen of the Fairies. Ida brought a lot of research and authenticity to her part!

Ida as Queen Titania, Queen of the Fairies, in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with Jason Gauder as King Oberon, King of the Fairies...

See more of Ida in Theater.