Benefit for Madison Wellness Collective. Stephanie Rearick, db pedersen and Gloria Hayes

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, April 9, 2011

Come show your support for the folks who are vigilant throughout these days, our volunteer 1st responders who keep us safe and sound and fed and warm.

The benefit will be raising money for MadCWC medics to travel to the IMF protests next month in Washington DC, as well as to other parts of Wisconsin and other Midwest states (and growing!) to help with street medic trainings. As more anti-union, anti-lower class bills get introduced, uprisings similar to Madison will fight against them.

So...come to this benefit to support your hard-working healers and medics. Hear some great music and relax for a bit.