AIS Open Critique #1 | April 24th | 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Open Critique #1

April 24th, 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Featuring artists Michael Horswill & Hanna Kuhns

This event is free and open to the public as a part of our annual Artist Incubator Series. 

Artists within the community are invited to bring 1-2 works of art to this Open Critique and receive feedback from local professional artists Michael Horswill and Hanna Kuhns. 

Please RSVP if you plan on attending. 

About the Artists

Hanna Kuhns 

Hanna Kuhns is an abstract artist and Art Teacher. She was born in Munich Germany and now resides in Coeur d'Alene Idaho with her husband Tom and three daughters. 

Drawing inspiration from her active life as a skier and runner, she channels that same dynamic energy into her art, creating pieces that intentionally flow and move with purpose. Her art tells stories of people and places, capturing the essence of the feeling they leave behind, the memories and moments that linger. Rhonda, a figure who embodies a "full-send" life - carpe diem in human form - shows up in Hanna's work. She is bold, unapologetic, and alive in every sense, a symbol of fearless energy that challenges you to embrace the moment, take risks, and live your best life without hesitation.

@hannakuhnsart | www.flyingrhonda.com

Michael Horswill

Michael Horswill has been a professional artist in the Spokane and Coeur d'Alene region since the 1990s, with an Art BA from the University of Washington in Seattle and an MFA from the University of Idaho. He has exhibited work extensively and has received awards and public art commissions. He has volunteered for local arts organizations and teaches studio art and art history at North Idaho College, where the intense exchange of ideas in the creative process inspires both teaching and art-making. 

In his artwork, Horswill collects, combines, and unites the materials of life to make visible the image floating in his mind's eye. In his paintings, drawings, and wall-hung sculptures, he layers colors in encaustic, collaged archival images, wood, metal, and mixed media. Through misty aged glass in framed windows, ghostly images appear. Deeply-textured surfaces and fluid steel moves viewers' eyes to points where tiny machines are suspended as if to make music.