2025 IMAGE Art Show
Congratulations to Jeff Bracken for winning the People's Choice Award!
The East Central Regional Arts Council (ECRAC) is proud to honor the award winners of the 37th annual
IMAGE Art Show.
The IMAGE Art Show is an annual event open to any artist residing in Region 7E (the MN counties of Chisago, Kanabec, Isanti, Mille Lacs, and Pine.) The Art Show and the awards honor some of the finest art in the area. A total of 125 artists from the East Central Minnesota region exhibited this year’s IMAGE Art Show at the Grand Events Center in Mora, MN, August 22, 23 & 24.
Judges Amy Varsek of Duluth and Heidi Jeub of Shoreview chose Best of Show, Artistic Excellence Award, and Artistic Merit Awards. We also had viewers of the show vote for their favorite for the People’s Choice Award, as well as the ECRAC Board of Directors’ Purchase Award to add to the organization's permanent collection.
The winners, and their county of residence, are as follows:
Best of Show
Mike Menasco, Chisago & Nicole Lidman, Mille Lacs
Awards of Artistic Excellence
Melinda Cloose, Kanabec, Amanda Dorholt, Isanti, Greg Just, Isanti, David Spohn, Chisago, Amanda Dorholt, Isanti, MaryAnn Carlson, Chisago, Dee Ann Sibley, Isanti, Damien Beck, Kanabec, Jim Larson, Mille Lacs, Amikogaabawiikwe “Adrienne Benjamin”, Mille Lacs, Amanda Kendall, Pine
Awards of Artistic Merit
B.T. Johnson, Isanti, Dell Gross, Pine, Jean Crocker, Isanti, Nathan Peet, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe lands in East Central Minnesota, Katherine Salverda, Chisago, Robyn Tingle, Kanabec, Nathan Hagar, Isanti, Becky Utecht, Kananbec, Donna Budzynski, Pine, Carl Long, Kanabec
People’s Choice
Jeff Bracken, Kanabec
Purchase Award
Cindy Fuerstenberg, Pine & Cyrus Raivo, Kanabec
This art exhibition was made possible by The McKnight Foundation and also by the voters of Minnesota thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Legacy Fund.
Thanks also to all that came to support the artists and their work at the 38th Annual IMAGE Art Show.
