-Revolutionary Youth as a Critical Force--From One Generation to the Next- - a talk by Carl Davidson

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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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

This lecture is part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the completion of the final draft of the Port Huron Statement.

Carl Davidson was Vice President and National Secretary of the Students for a Democratic Society from 1968 to 1976. He is currently national co-chair of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism and a national board member of Solidarity Economy Network.

Carl Davidson-s talk will be introduced by Matt Rothschild, editor of the Progressive Magazine.

Free and open to the public.

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