Mad City Story Slam - "You can't do that!"

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, April 5, 2024
7:00 pm

Has anyone ever told you, "You can't do that!" right before you landed a triple front flip off the high dive? Have you ever seen something totally improbable, like a crocodile-shaped loaf of sourdough bread on the bank of a stream in central Kansas, that you swear was real? Have you ever eaten Paul's Pelmeni with an alien? We want to hear about it!

Tell a 5-minute story at the mic, or just come to listen. Doors open at 6:30PM, show starts at 7PM.

Open Mic