Mother Fool's 25th Birthday Variety Show Party!

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, June 6, 2020
8:00 pm

25 years ago this June, Jon Hain and Stephanie Rearick bought Mother Fool's Coffeehouse from the wonderful, late Jean Lister.

We kicked off with a day of music and fun, and have had many days and nights of music and fun since. That won't stop with this version of the apocalypse, and we hope you'll be even more able to join from far and wide now that we'll be on zoom.

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