Feast of Mutton $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, May 7, 2011

Feast of Mutton is a music group thats sound reflects their love for harmonic minor scales, unusual timings, gypsy music of Eastern European Countries, snake charmers and circus freaks. While remaining folkie this band pays great detail to the melody and musical arrangements creating haunting music for an opium den or gypsy caravan. Tenor banjo, guitar, dumbek, unusual harmonicas, double bass, and fiddle create the original works that make Feast of Mutton.

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