Freedom Night [open mic] with host, Angelica Engel

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, November 26, 2016
8:00 pm

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” - Audre Lorde

Express yourself at Mother Fool’s Coffeehouse. Some ideas: play a guitar, read a poem, express big feelings in a beautiful manner, crack some jokes, talk to your friendly hand puppet about the weather.

Sign up starts at 7:30 / show starts at 8pm.

Open Mic