National Day of Action Against Guant-namo Letter Writing Party

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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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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Letter writing campaign including a short presentation on the detention center, letter writing including to the men being detained at Guantanamo, and reading of poems written by the men from Guantanamo.

For more information contact: Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice (608-250-9240, mbspeace1@charter.net), Madison Pledge of Resistance (608-222-7581, joyfirst5@gmail.com)

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