Benefit for Alliance for Animals. Stephanie Rearick, Carell Casey and Wendy Schneider.

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 4, 2011

Mother Fool\'s will be hosting a benefit to raise funds for Alliance for Animals\' efforts to make Dane County an \"elephant free zone.\"

$5 and up sliding scale.

Stephanie Rearick is a pianist, vocalist, songwriter, sometimes trumpeter.

\"Rearick faithfully follows her muse... allowing listeners into her oddball, often dark and always fascinating musical personality, which encompasses pop, jazz, classical and experimental tendencies.\" - Goldmine

Carell Casey is a local singer-songwriter whose work has been compared to Aimee Mann, Dar Williams, Brandi Carlile, and KT Tunstall. She will be playing ALL love songs at this show since Februaray is the month of St. Valentines Day! Songs from Carell\'s debut CD \"A New Day\" have been played on the BBC 2, WORT, and more. You can also find her on Pandora.com, Jango.com, CDbaby, and iTunes.

Wendy Schneider is a local musician who began her performance run in the early 90s as the lead singer/guitarist of the power trio, Bugatti Type 35. After the band dissolved in 2002, she toured solo as Wendy Bugatti for a few years, then vanished from the local music scene. Recently, Schneider has resumed performing both solo and with her evolving rock project, Shooter Jane.

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