Sneak Peek: O What a Night! Silent Auction Bidding opens Saturday, October 11!

O What a Night! Gala is Saturday, October 18, 2025. Here is a sneak peek of this year’s Silent Auction, sponsored by Neal Auction.

We’re thrilled to present 80+ works by regional artists in this year’s O What a Night! Gala Silent Auction, celebrating and supporting the art of the American South. Proceeds benefit the Museum’s unique educational mission, with participating artists receiving a portion of each sale.

Silent Auction works will be on view at the Museum beginning October 11, 2025, with online bidding open October 11–19.

Preview the art, support Southern artists and place your bids online starting October 11!

For the full list of participating artists, click here.

Silent Auction Preview

David Rae Morris, “You’re All Beautiful People”, 1989, Photography, 20 x 24 inches framed, Courtesy of the artist

David Rae Morris was born in Oxford, England and grew up in New York City. He holds a B.A. from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts (1982), and an M.A. In Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota (1991).  His photographs and films have been published, exhibited and shown widely. His latest book “Love, Daddy: Letters From My Father,” portions of which were exhibited at Ogden Museum in 2007, and again in 2022, was published by the University Press of Mississippi in April 2022. It won the 2023 Photography Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. His film, “My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is: The Legacy of Dr. Jane Ellen McAllister,” which examines the life of the first black woman to get a Ph.D. in education from Columbia University’s Teachers College in 1929 is currently making the rounds on the festival circuit. It won Best Feature Documentary at the Jackson Film Festival in Mississippi in July. He and his long time partner, Susanne Dietzel, live in New Orleans with two cats.

Marianne Angeli Rodriguez, Heard It Through The Grapevine, 2023, Acrylic mixed media with oil pastel on canvas, 36 x 36 inches, Courtesy of Marianne Angeli Rodriguez Gallery

Filipino-American artist Marianne Angeli Rodriguez (based in Covington, Louisiana) creates vibrant, large-scale abstract paintings inspired by her 15 years in West Africa, Central America, Europe and Asia due to her parents’ UN work. With a B.A. in media studies and anthropology from CUNY Hunter College and a fashion design degree from FIT, she’s a self-taught painter whose work has gained national recognition and is collected across the United States. Her art, featured in collaborations with Anthropologie and others, is displayed at Sloan Kettering Cancer Centers, New Orleans Louis Armstrong International Airport and St. Tammany Parish Hospital. Her gallery at 323 N. Columbia St. in Covington’s historic district showcases her original works and prints. Her art has been featured in Southern Living, Country Living, Garden & Gun and on PBS’s Samantha Brown’s Places to Love.

Andre’ Hubbard, OH! THE PLACES WE’LL GO!!!, 2024, Photography, 36 x 24 inches, Courtesy of the artist

Andre’ Hubbard is a photographer whose work captures movement, memory and community with honesty and rhythm. Known for his striking self-portraiture as well as portraits of others, Hubbard’s images are informed by his background as a performance artist and cultural storyteller. His photography extends beyond the frame preserving human expression in its rawest form.

Stephen Paul, Perroquet à Absinthe, 2020, Cast glass, 12.75 x 9.5 x 5 inches, Courtesy of Arthur Roger Gallery

Stephen Paul Day is a Metamodernist artist whose creations merge the vocabulary of Modernism with the techniques of Postmodernism to tell powerful, engaging stories. Drawing inspiration from fairy tales, his masterfully crafted sculptures, skillfully executed paintings and innovative glassworks explore themes like truth and deception, beauty and beastliness, and innocence lost. His work strikes a balance between sharp, biting commentary and whimsical beauty, creating art that is both provocative and enchanting.

Day’s career spans decades and continents. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and collaborated with renowned artists such as Jenny Holzer, William Wegman and Deborah Butterfield. He has exhibited internationally in Paris, Japan and Berlin, and his works are held in prestigious collections, including the Montreal Museum of Art and the Corning Museum.

Represented by the Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans and Galerie Hirschmann in Berlin, Stephen Paul Day continues to inspire through his solo works and collaborative projects, such as Club S+S with his wife, Sibylle Peretti.

Lue Svendson, Single Elegance, 2025, Oil on Linen, 16 x 18 inches, Courtesy of Svendson Studio

Louisiana native Lue Svendson is a painter and a landscape architect. Svendson’s work in paint and nature exist worldwide. Svendson was influenced to think creatively in her formative years. Since she was a young girl, she has had a natural ability in drawing using pencil, charcoal and watercolor. In 1975 she graduated from LSU with a degree in Landscape Architecture and has combined her love of art and nature for almost fifty years. Svendson paints what she knows best; the woods and the prairies of South Louisiana. She has traveled the United States studying with nationally recognized artists such as Camille Przewodek, John Clayton, Dennis Sheehan and Christie Scheele. For over a decade Lue learned the art of Plein Aire with master painters in Cape Cod Massachusetts. Her current inspiration is the moody Tonalism movement from the late 1800’s which can be felt in her work. Svendson is a proud member of the Lafayette Art Association, the Oil Painters of America, and The American Women Artists. Her work was selected for the 2025 edition Louisiana Contemporary, presented by The Helis Foundation, at Ogden Museum of Southern Art, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Silent Auction bidding will start online October 11 at 5 p.m. 

About O What a Night! Gala

O What a Night! Gala raises critical funds for Ogden Museum’s exhibitions and programming. The 2025 O What a Night! Gala will honor Opus Award recipients: Dawn DeDeaux, an internationally acclaimed, New Orleans-based multimedia artist and Randy K. Haynie, a longstanding advocate and philanthropist for the arts in Louisiana. The gala will feature live music, a seated dinner, entertainment, live and silent auctions, cocktails, dancing and more!