Make Music Madison 2025

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 21, 2025
11am - 5

Due to delays in getting our entryway fixed, we have scaled back on our Make Music Madison schedule and moved most of our scheduled performers to Barb and Luciano's home at 2314 E. Dayton. Here is their schedule.

4pm - 4:15pm - Ensemble Shamaali
Middle Eastern

4:15pm - 5pm - Nola talks to trees
Indie-Folk Pop Singer / Songwriter

Nola talks to trees is the project of Madison singer-songwriter Nola Pastor (she/her). Nola writes and sings about love, loss, wild things, and complex trauma. She performs with Baz Sundark (hey/they) and Liz Levy (she/her) as the Chaos Gremlins, where they use music as a space to celebrate messy authenticity and the power of chosen family.

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