The Live Bard - Spooky Spoken

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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Friday, October 31, 2014
8:00 pm

After you’ve picked though your kids or your roommate’s Halloween Trick-or-Treat bag, join at Mother Fools Coffeehouse from 8 to 9 on October 31st, for an entertaining hour of spooky poems for intrepid adults.

In the tradition of a medieval storyteller, our guest

performer, the Live Bard will recite THE RAVEN, as well as other classic works of macabre narrative verse, appropriate for those with ghoulish temperaments.

See you then. Unless you are too afraid.

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