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Art Faculty at the 2022 Faculty Exhibition, from left: Jen Erickson, Michael Horswill, and Otis Bardwell. 


Otis Bardwell

OtisIn 2013, Otis Bardwell and his wife moved their family to Coeur d’Alene where Otis runs the NIC Ceramics program. Otis is a graduate of Cal State University, Los Angeles. His history as an art instructor includes courses at Cal Poly Pomona, Cal State Los Angeles, Lycée Français de Los Angeles, and Barnsdall Arts in Hollywood.

Otis’s work emerges from a labor-intensive approach that exists in the gray area between the rational and visceral. These endeavors impart a quasi-primitive mystique in the finished state of the work. The empty vessel is a symbol for nostalgia: the desire for something that is only accessible through the shifting and sorting of individual and communal memory.

“All the genuine, deep delight of life is in showing people the mud-pies you have made; and life is at its best when we confidingly recommend our mud-pies to each other's sympathetic consideration.” –J.M. Thorburn, 1925


Jen Erickson

JenJen Erickson’s meticulously detailed graphite drawings feature forms created from an accumulation of handmade marks. Each mark is either drawn or carved into the surface in a response to the previous one. These marks come together and disperse, engaging in a constant continuum of growth and decay. She finds inspiration from the idea of loss and the act of decomposition as well as the visualization of data and biological systems.

Erickson received her BFA in painting and drawing from the University of Montana and her MFA from Central Washington University. She has been involved with several artist-run galleries and served on the Board of Directors for the Saranac Art Projects in Spokane for several years. She frequently shows her work at the PUNCH Gallery in Seattle, as well as the Brink Gallery in Missoula, Montana, in addition to participating in group shows around the country.

She has taught classes at Central Washington University, Gonzaga, and Eastern Washington University. At NIC she currently teaches Oil Painting, Printmaking, Watercolor, Drawing II, and Life Drawing. 

 

Michael Horswill

Michael HorswillMichael Horswill is a life-long student of art, continually exploring and uniting processes and materials in intricate sculptures for gallery and academic exhibitions and larger public artworks in the Inland Northwest. His work as an illustrator, then painter, and now sculptor is balanced by teaching design, drawing, art history, and sculpture at North Idaho College, where he also coordinates the Boswell Corner Gallery.

His sculptures are abstract visual environments that juxtapose natural materials such as wood, rawhide, beeswax, and bamboo with mechanical materials such as steel, copper, wire and glass. His influences include a fascination with mechanical systems combined with immersion in nature, including bee-keeping and watching the occasional moose while welding. He grew up in the Northwest and attended art schools and universities in Montana, Japan, Washington, and Idaho, achieving an A.A., a B.A., and an MFA. See more on his web site: http://MichaelHorswill.com

Jeremiah Schiek

Jeremiah

I am a Master of Fine Arts graduate who works in comic book art and illustration. My work has appeared in numerous anthologies such as The Death of the Horror Anthology from A Wave Blue World.  I am also a regular contributor and the popular webcomics site, Hyper Epics.  For the past year, I've been working with author Armond Boudreaux to produce an exciting new series, Saint Raguel.  graduated from California State University, Fullerton, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Entertainment Art/Animation. My animations received many accolades from the Art Department, culminating in the opportunity to present my work for critique at the DreamWorks Studio in Glendale, California. I was also afforded the opportunity to visit the Disney Animation Studio in Burbank, CA for Disney’s Inspire Days. Ion 2017, I returned to CSUF to attain a Master of Fine Arts degree, and graduated with that degree in January, 2021. I currently work freelance, producing numerous comic stories a. In my nonexistent “free time,” I collect fountain pens and spend an inordinate amount of time hanging out with my son, Emrys. My web site is https://jschiek.com/about 

Boswell Corner Gallery

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Current Exhibition

  • CURRENT EXHIBITION 2022-2023: Sarah Thompson Moore "Vestiges," Feb. 14 - March 24, 2023
  • Exhibition Opening Events Feb. 14, 2023, "Vestiges"

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Previous 2022-2023 Exhibitions

  • Katie Creyts, "Trappings," Sept. 13 - Nov. 4, 2022
  • Megan Cherry, "Precious Cargo," Nov. 29, 2022 - Jan. 27, 2023

Previous 2021-2022 Exhibitions

  • 2021-2022 Boswell Corner Gallery Calendar
  • Student Art Exhibition, April 12 - May 13
  • Art Faculty Exhibition 2022, Feb. 8 - March 25, 2022
  • Aaron Johnson, "Interlude," Nov. 17, 2021 - Jan. 28, 2022
  • Aaron Johnson Schedule of Events November 17, 2021
  • NIC Newsroom Article on Faculty Exhibition 2022
  • Art Faculty Exhibition Opening Reception Schedule of Events
  • Mat Rude, "Flow," September 8 - November 13
  • Narrated Slideshow by Mat Rude (Link)

Previous 2020-2021 Exhibitions

  • Dean Davis, "Pictures of Poets," February 2 - March 26, 2021
  • 2021 Student Exhibition, April 13 - May 7
  • Pictures of Poets: link to portraits and audio poetry
  • Daniela Snow Video Presentation: "The Scars that Shape Us"
  • Daniela Snow, "The Scars that Shape Us," September 22 - December 11, 2020

Recent Past Exhibitions

  • Boswell Corner Gallery Calendar 2019-2020
  • 20/20 Faculty Exhibition, Feb. 11 = March 27, 2020
  • Natalie Dotzauer, "What We Take," Nov. 18, 2019 - Jan. 31, 2020
  • Reinaldo Gil Zambrano, "Melao," Sept. 11 - Nov. 1, 2019
  • Boswell Corner Gallery Calendar 2018-2019
  • Allie Kurtz Vogt, "Endlessly Rewinding," Nov. 13, 2018 - Feb. 1, 2019
  • Chris Kelsey, "Tilt," Sept. 18 - Nov. 2, 2018

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