Second Love Cats Silent Art Auction has goal of raising more for felines than the first
Image supplied, Jennifer VanDyke
This piece by Jackee Spencer is one of several works of art that will be up for auction as part of the Love Cats Silent Art Auction: Wild Card Edition at the Local Artisan Collective Oct. 30-31, 2026.OGDEN — The Love Cats Silent Art Auction is set to return this weekend.
Dubbed “The Wildcard Edition,” this auction will be held at the Local Artisan Collective Friday from 5-7 p.m. and Saturday from noon-7 p.m. Money raised will benefit the individual artists as well as Whiskers Utah.
Organizer Jennifer VanDyke told the Standard-Examiner this weekend’s auction has some big goals after the success of the first auction in March.
“It’s different because this theme is wild card theme,” she said. “The previous thing was for cats — just all cats — and this theme is artists contributing what they feel their best work is for the auction. It’s not restricted to a certain theme.”
She said that 15 artists have contributed works to this weekend’s event and that the March auction raised around $2,500 — a figure that she hopes this auction will surpass.
“We want to beat our last goal and hopefully we can get more interest in Whiskers,” she said. “They are having adoptions now because there have been so many kittens that they’ve had to trap. They just took 15 cats in this last weekend to be neutered and spayed. What they do, they need the money for it.”
VanDyke said because this is the second art auction she’s organized, it’s a little easier to do this time around and she knows that it’s needed for both the artistic community and local charities helping animals.
“Just the logistics are going to be a little easier,” she said. “It’s something that the community needs and they are needing the money and I need to keep doing it — that’s what I learned. I can’t just stop.”
She said it’s meaningful to see the local artistic community step up in such a big way.
“The community is willing to come together to help and lend their talents in their own way to help cats,” she said. “They can do that with anything in the community, really, if they want to. Art is a good thing to try and promote.”
VanDyke said the goal the second time around is the same as with the inaugural auction earlier this year.
“I hope that it is successful and the main reason why I’m doing it is to help the cats in whiskers,” she said.
