A 3-Dimensial representation of an Article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights This project was inspiring An NIC Student and an Art on the Edge Student. Some of the "Magnificent Moonsters"

Laurie Olson-Horswill
& Michael Horswill

Laurie and Michael Horswill have a passion for community art and community building.  Laurie is an English instructor at North Idaho College, and has coordinated Service Learning in local colleges.  Michael Horswill is a local artist and art instructor at North Idaho College.

Two sections of Michael Horswill's three-dimensional design class completed a service learning project with Art on the Edge. Over three weeks working collaboratively on building a sculpture that articulates all thirty articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The entire project was funded by a grant from the NIC Foundation that Horswill co-authored with Laurie Olson-Horswill, English Instructor. You can view this sculpture at the Molstead Library on the North Idaho College Campus.

Art on the Edge students worked with students from Michael Horswill's 3-D Design class to design fantastic creatures that lived on the moon. Over the course of six weeks, these children and college students imagined, wrote stories, drew pictures, and eventually created three-dimensional figurative sculptures that they called the “Magnificent Moonsters.”

You can view Michael's art at the Art Spirit Gallery in downtown Coeur d' Alene.  Click here to view some of his work.