Madtown Poetry Open Mic

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, December 1, 2017
8:00 pm

Sign-up starts 7:30pm. Featured reader at 8pm. Open Mic follows. Read your original work or a favorite poem for up to 5 minutes. This will be the last Madtown Open Mic hosted by Ron, so come out and make it a memorable one.

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