10% Day to support East Timor Action Network

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, May 23, 2010

Mother Fool's will be donating 10% of our proceeds to the East Timor Action Network sister city project.

The Madison-Ainaro Sister City Alliance, a project of ETAN-Madison, has organized several delegations to Ainaro, including one this March. Previous Tour de Timor bike rides have raised thousands of dollars to prevent and investigate domestic violence in Ainaro in 2009; to bring two Ainaro community leaders to Madison in 2008; to help fund a joint international / Timorese election observer project in 2007; and to provide grants to women-s income-generation projects, sustainable agriculture groups, a local radio station, and other community-led projects in Ainaro, East Timor.

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