Mark Adkins w/ Larry Ravenswood

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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Friday, February 23, 2007

Mark Adkins is the main singer and songwriter for Madison Area Music Award winning band, subvocal. Think psychedelic-electro-tribal-folk..

Larry Ravenswood plays an acoustic guitar, but does not necessarily present his music in the "traditional acoustic sense". On his latest project "Million Miles from Zen" he combines acoustic guitar with various keyboard and beat sounds, and then mixing it all with lush melodies, vibrant vocals and songwriting. He has performed in many cities throughout the USA; venues including State Fairs,clubs,coffee houses and halls. Born in Chicago and currently living in Minneapolis, the indestructable music veteran has endeared many ups and downs, trends and non trends, but has always survived any or no fallout the music biz has or has not to offer.

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