East Side Youth Poetry Reading

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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Thursday, April 26, 2007

Featuring poets and spoken word performers from LaFollette, East, and Shabazz high schools, as well as any other teen who wants to read their own work. This is a feel-good celebration of poetry, not a slam. Please arrive at least fifteen minutes early to sign up.

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