WORT Remote broadcast w/ RTQE & The Weekly World Noise

Art in the cafe...

Laurel Statz


"The Spectator"


December 2025



Laurel Statz is a painter and Madison area native. Her work, while figurative, is influenced by abstraction and minimalism. The paintings often have a quick and instinctual nature, capturing just what’s needed. While she often times herself to eliminate extra details and over-precision, she has ventured into more detailed works as well. Laurel does not attach narrative to her pieces. Rather, she thinks of them like a journaling process for her scatter-brained psyche. The figures in the pieces are meant to be processing tools for the artist and the viewer. She hopes that seeing these figures helps the...
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Sunday, April 23, 2000

WORT's Sunday evening experimental and avantgarde flagship programs RTQE and The Weekly World Noise drop anchor at Mother Fool's for a live nontelevisual broadcast in wall-to-wall monaural featuring sounds by DJ4'33", Jeff Snyder, Tom Hamer, Operators and Things, the remote Adam Cain, Joanne Powers, and Zonk. Stop on down or tune in to 89.9 fm. Will Madison ever be the same?

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