Sockrates Sock Puppet Carnival of Morals and Logic

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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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Saturday, June 14, 2014
8:00 pm

Sockrates Sock Puppet Carnival of Morals and Logic “Letters to the Willy Street Co-Op Reader” show. The Sockrates troupe employs dialogue, music and socks to convey the wealth and breadth of the human (and sock) experience. Tonight, this band of merry puppets lends its thespian talents to selected highlights from seven years of Owner letters to the monthly Willy Street Co-op Reader.

Performance Art