Graminy - $7

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, June 11, 2011

Graminy - -class-grass- string ensemble

Michael Bell - mandolin
Mary Gaines - vocals, cello
Chris Wagoner - violin
Shauncey Ali - violin, viola
Chris Powers - guitar

Founded in 2010, Graminy is an instrumental and vocal string ensemble featuring some of the best of Madison-s veteran musicians. Graminy seeks to fuse the classical and grassroots traditions (\"class-grass\"), from Bach to bluegrass, from Copland to Celtic, from Gershwin to native American, from Kodaly to klezmer, and more. Drawing on all these styles, Graminy composes and arranges all its music, and includes lots of quick changes, generous improvisations, and occasional singing.

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