Celebrate and Support the Art of the American South

Thank you for making O What a Night! Gala 2023 a night to remember! We are already looking forward to celebrating with you again next year. Stay tuned for more details for O What a Night! Gala 2024!

Ogden Museum of Southern Art, dedicated to broadening the knowledge, understanding, interpretation and appreciation of the visual arts and culture of the American South, will hold its annual O What a Night! Gala on October 21, 2023, with a Patron Party and auction preview on October 19, 2023.

O What a Night! Gala sells out every year and plays host to affluent and influential patrons from New Orleans and across the country. This evening is not only an experiential celebration of the very best in Southern art, music and food, but is also the Museum’s top fundraising event. Your contribution to the O What a Night! Gala 2023 will provide critical funds for our award-winning educational programs and our dynamic exhibitions of Southern painting, photography, sculpture and much more.

What makes this event so special? The people and the art! People from all over the country will be able to bid on works of art in the silent auction and live auction. Year after year, art collectors look forward to viewing all of the beautiful works of art created by artists of the South.


Ticket Opportunities

Underwriter table – $25,000
• Name recognition as Underwriter on all print and digital materials including 2,000 printed invitations, and 400 event programs and catalogs
• Name recognition as Underwriter on Gala webpage
• 8 tickets to the O What a Night! Gala Patron Party
• 1 table at the O What a Night! Gala with first row placement (8 seats)

Sponsor table – $15,000
• Name recognition as Sponsor on all print and digital materials including 2,000 printed invitations and 400 event programs and catalogs
• Name recognition as Sponsor on Gala webpage
• 8 tickets to the O What a Night! Gala Patron Party
• 1 table at the O What a Night! Gala with premium placement (8 seats)

Benefactor Table – $10,000
• Name recognition as Benefactor on all print and digital materials including 2,000 printed invitations and 400 event programs and catalogs
• Name recognition as Benefactor on Gala webpage
• 8 tickets to the O What a Night! Gala Patron Party
• 1 table at the O What a Night! Gala with preferred placement (8 seats)

Patron Host – $5,000

• Name recognition as Patron Host on all print and digital materials including 2,000 printed invitations and 400 event programs and catalogs

• Name recognition as Patron Host on Gala webpage
• 4 tickets to the O What a Night! Gala Patron Party
• Half table at the O What a Night! Gala with preferred placement (4 seats)

Patron – $1,200
• Name recognition as Patron on all print materials including 2,000 printed invitations and 400 event programs and catalogs
• 1 ticket to the O What a Night! Gala Patron Party
• 1 ticket to the O What a Night! Gala

Supporter – $600
• 1 ticket to the O What a Night! Gala

O What a Night! 2023

COLEMAN E. ADLER II, TIFFANY ADLER, PENNY FRANCIS & DEANNA RODRIGUEZ
2023 Co-chairs

NICHOLAS LOWRY, SWANN AUCTION GALLERIES
Auctioneer

SIGNATURE EVENTS
Decor

PALATE NEW ORLEANS
Seated Dinner Crafted by
Executive Chef and Owner, Glenn Vatshell
Sponsored by LCMC Health

SUCRÉ
Artisan Treats

ENTERTAINMENT PROVIDED BY
Papo Y Son Mandao, Jeremy Davenport & D Play Band

UNDERWRITER

SILENT AUCTION SPONSOR
NEAL AUCTION


Sponsors

ELEMENT
LCMC Health
Goldring Family Foundation

The Helis Foundation
Neal Auction
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune

Palate New Orleans
Premium Parking
SAZERAC


Benefactors

Coleman E. Adler II
Alia Ali
Alex Beard
Gayle and Tom Benson Family Foundation
Callan Contemporary
Beverly Dale
Christian Đinh
Entergy

Peggy & Timber Floyd
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery
Mitchell Gaudet
Jonathan Hodge
Gregory Holt & Lucy Burnett
Birney Imes
LeMieux Galleries
Kaori Maeyama

Octavia Art Gallery
Roger H. Ogden & Ken Barnes
RJ Raizk
Gregory Saunders
Aimée Farnet Siegel
Trenity Thomas
Charles D. Urstadt & David Bernard
John Isiah Walton


Patron Hosts

Adler’s Jewelry
Claire Elizabeth Gallery
Eclectic Home
Entergy
Debra J. Fischman
Hancock Whitney Bank
Haynie Family Foundation

Eric & Maggie Hoffman
HUB International
LEA Catering
Catherine Makk
Mignon Faget, LTD.
Matthew B. Moreland
New Orleans & Company
Laura & Sonny Shields

Holly & Geoffrey P. Snodgass
Spillman | Blackwell Fine Art
St. Charles Avenue
Sucré
Total Wine & More
Jason Waguespack & Jeffery Morgan
Fern & Kevin Watters


Patrons

Storm & Katherine Ainsley
BankPlus
Suzie & Ted Bloch III M.D.
William Bryan
Martine Chaisson Gallery
Acadian Companies
Kaye Courington
James Crosby
Catherine & Chad Edmonson
First Horizon
Monica Ann Frois & Eve Barrie Masinter

Monique & Warren Gardner
Katherine & Tony Gelderman
Susan Jones Gundlach
Eric & Maggie Hoffman
Ibis Contemporary Art Gallery
J.P. Morgan Private Bank
Jan W. Katz
Catherine & Jason Kuuskraa
Donna & Jack Little
Terrence Meck & Breton Alberti

MPress Printing
PJ’s Coffee
Red River Bank
Risk Strategies
Fran & Mark Scofield
Dr. Troy Scroggins
Patrick F. Taylor Foundation
Carla & Cleophus Thomas, Jr.
Dawn Adams Wheelahan
Sharonda R. Williams
Michael Wilkinson


2023 Gala Committee

Christopher J. Alfieri
Mary H. Becnel
Susan & Ralph Brennan
William Bryan
Carlos Carmona & David Pine
Beverly Dale
Shannon M. Drake
Catherine & Chad Edmonson
Monica Ann Frois & Eve Barrie Masinter
Alexa Georges & Jerry Armatis
Alice & Brodie Glenn

William Goldring
Ariel & L. Kasimu Harris
Jessie & Beau Haynes
Daynese & Randy Haynie
Catherine & Jason Kuuskraa
Paul J. Leaman & Marilyn V. Dittmann
Catherine Makk
Sarah Martzolf
Matthew B. Moreland
Michelle & Field Ogden
Roger H. Ogden & Ken Barnes

Mallory Page & Jacques Rodrigue
Fran & Mark Scofield
Laura & Sonny Shields
Nathalie Simon
Holly & Geoffrey P. Snodgrass
Karen & George Solomon
Emery & Kristian Sonnier
Charles D. Urstadt & David Bernard
Jason Waguespack & Jeffery Morgan
Dawn Adams Wheelahan
Sharonda R. Williams


Live Auction Artists

Alia Ali
Alex Beard
Christian Đinh
George Dunbar
Aimée Farnet Siegel

Mitchell Gaudet
Jonathan Hodge
Birney Imes
Kaori Maeyama

REWA
RJ Raizk
Gregory Saunders
Trenity Thomas
John Isiah Walton


Silent Auction Artists

Leslie A. Addison
Ariya Aladjem Wolf
Renee Allie
Musa Alves
Scott Andresen
William Andrews
David Armentor
Luke Alex Atkinson
Peter Barnitz
Brandon Bartley
Ron Bechet
Aron Belka
Kadeshia Bellard
Thom Bennett
Mark Bercier
Muffin Bernstein
Natalie Blanton
Sesthasak Boonchai
Adrien Broom
Vivian Broussard
Amanda Joy Brown
Jose Angel Castro
Ashleigh Coleman
Aaron Collier
Michael Roque Collins
James Constantine
Anita Cooke
Craig Crawford
Moira Crone
Keith Crowley
Kalila Daveron
Michael Deas
Stephen Paul Day
William DePauw
Paige DeVries
Dr. Bob
William Dunlap
Sharon Duplantis
E2 – Kleinveld & Julien
Michael Eble
Mary Lee Eggart

Leslie Elliottsmith
Margaret Evangeline
James Flynn
Gail Foster
Josiah Gagosian
Rachel Gardner
Sophia Germer
Jennifer Gibbs
Cheryl Anne Grace
William Guion
Heather Bird Harris
L. Kasimu Harris
James Hayman
Marcia B. Holmes
Horton Humble
Sue Ireland
Shabez Jamal
Susan Jamison
Jeremiah Johnson
Kenneth Jordan
Kelli Scott Kelley
David Knox
Audra Kohout
Sharon Kopriva
Kristina Larson
Cameron Lartique
Megan Lightell
Kelsey Livingston
Srdjan Loncar
Emily Lovejoy
Ann Dinwiddie Madden
Sarah Martzolf
Richard McCabe
Molly McCall
Becca McGirney
Seilna McKane
Michael Meads
Piki Mendizabal
Kristin Meyers
James Michalopoulous
MILAGROS Collective

Kristin Moore
David Rae Morris
Randall Mosman
Amy Newell
Jack Niven
Nonney Oddlokken
Sherry OwensMary Jane Parker
Susan Plum
Ashley Pridmore
Britt Ransom
Stephanie Reed
Emilie Rhys
Jennifer Rinehart
Kathy Rodriguez
Jason Ruhl
Dan Rule
Kyle C. Salandy
Rhenda Saporito
Claire Christine Sargenti
Karoline Schleh
Cynthia Scott
Suzanna Scott
Richard Sexton
Nathalie Simon
Alex Sorapuru
Christy Speakman
Mark Spiers
Leslie-Claire Spillman
Jill Stoll
Leona Strassberg Steiner
Ryan Strok
Thomas Swanston
Breanna thompson
Nell Tilton
Kennedy Timmons
José Torres-Tama
Paige Valente
Irvin Washington
B’Beth Weldon
George H. Yerger
Antonia Zennaro