Magic Mama - $6

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, July 10, 2010

Magic Mama is an Eco-Edu-tainer who performs Organic Hip Hop and World Beats for all ages. Through her music, Magic Mama delivers an empowering and hope-filled message of love and respect for all and inspires creative thinking and Earth-friendly actions. Her music has been described as "De La Soul meets Keller Williams on Sesame Street" and Hip Parent calls Magic Mama "The Ani DiFranco of family entertainment."

Magic Mama plays a Taylor guitar, harmonium, beat box, washboard, and canning jars filled with water making her genre-elusive music challenging to describe. You just have to see it to hear it!