CAA Faculty

Jackson Flynn joined the Upper School Arts team in 2024 as the Creative Arts teacher. In 2025, he took on the role of Creative Arts Academy Co-Director.

Jackson holds a BFA in Studio Art and Design with a minor in Architecture from University of Idaho, Moscow. He brings diverse experience and skill sets involving both art and teaching. As an undergraduate, Jackson served various art-related positions including teaching Art 101 Studio and Sculpture and Ceramics Studio Advisor.

Prior to his US role, Jackson served as the 5th grade teaching assistant at Community School for the 2023-24 school year. Prior, Jackson worked with youth of all ages and abilities both in the outdoors and in the classroom. He currently is the Lead Ceramics Teacher at Boulder Mountain Clayworks as well as the Lead Youth Instructor at Sun Valley Mountain Guides. Prior, he was the Lead Art Teacher at Sun Valley Museum of Art working with ages 12-15 after school. Jackson substitute taught at SVCS for ECC-10th grades from January 2019 until he joined the Elementary School team in 2023. Also since 2019, Jackson served as a substitute Lead Preschool Teacher at Neighborhood Sprouts in Boise. 

Jackson also leads youth summer bike camps and guided hiking and biking trips for Sun Valley Mountain Guides and was an adaptive ski/snowboard instructor for Higher Ground in 2017 and 2018.

Ben Larroquette, joined Sun Valley Community School as the Upper School music teacher in 2020. A 2005 graduate of Sun Valley Community School, Ben is a lifelong musician. He began piano lessons in 1st grade and guitar lessons in 4th grade. As a former Community School student himself, Ben began recording his own music at the age of 13. After high school, he completed a Bachelor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts (class of 2010). Since then, he has appeared on numerous albums, toured across the country, and is the singer/songwriter/guitarist for his three-piece rock band called Mom And Dad. When Ben isn’t making music, well, he’s probably still making music. It never stops.