Alterra Coffee Roasters

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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Tuesday, April 25, 2000

Representatives from our coffee roasters will present information about Sustainable Harvest coffee growing, organic production methods, and fair trade. They will talk specifically about the organic Mexican Kulantik Coffee that we serve here and will show slides of the farm in Chiapas that it comes from. We will brew up some for everyone to sample!!.

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