Center Space Gallery
April 11 – June 21, 2025

This competitive exhibition, sponsored by the Safford and Lena Lock Photo Endowment Fund, is intended to serve several purposes: to promote interest in photography as art, to stimulate greater levels of quality and creativity in photography, to share examples of area work with the public, and to provide a forum for area artists.

Residents of Cerro Gordo County, high school age and up, and those attending the spring or summer semesters at North Iowa Area Community College were invited to enter up to three photographs.  Eighty-two photographic entries were received from residents in Cerro Gordo County and from those attending the spring or summer semesters at North Iowa Area Community College.  Forty-seven photographs by twenty-four artists were chosen for exhibition by a panel of judges.

Area residents whose work was chosen for this year’s show are: Chris Barragy, Alec M Heggen, Brad Janson, Wendy Janson, Dennis Nettifee, Joyce T Sorensen, Margo Underwood, and Lisa Wolf of Clear Lake; Emily Belt, David Crippin, Robert Follmuth, Dr. Martie Geiger-Ho, Lisa Grouette, Kathy Kinsey, Kyle Lucas, Cheryl Massey, Bruce G McKee, Valerie Joan Pennington, Daniel Pennington, Jim Rose, Kathryn Skellenger, and Jaclyn Smith all of Mason City; Alanna Davison of Plymouth; Betty J Moore of Ventura.