Steev Baker's Inkwell Collective w/ Amelia Royko

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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Saturday, November 27, 2004

Steev Baker's Inkwell Collective spans urban folk, alternative country, acoustic indie, bedroom pop--there are a number of ways to describe the songs Steev Baker writes, none of them completely adequate or accurate. Cram yourself in between the tired angst of Nirvana's unplugged album and the barely-controlled orchestration of Jeremy Enigk's "return of the frog queen" and you'll find Steev waiting for you, already tuning his guitar and shaking from too much caffeine. Steev writes literary music and is often accompanied by cello, banjo, and other instruments.

Amelia Royko is one of Madison's finest! She straddles the line between folk and rock and is a darn good songwriter to boot.

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