Cafe Haiku slam! w/ Nils Bultmann (viola)

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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Thursday, February 24, 2005

What can you say in 17 syllables? Find out by joining Jeffrey
Goldsmith for an evening of haiku improvised by you and everyone else
who shows up! Make yours funny or sad, truth or fiction, it's all
very good. And be sure to check out the book, Cafe Haiku, at
http://CaffeineSociety.com.

Nils Bultmann will accompany this event with viola and loops.

8 - 10 pm.

Free.