June Madrona - $5

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, August 8, 2009

Songs written simply and honestly, performed acoustically. Based upon the guitar and words of Ross Cowman, the varied content and carefully constructed stories of the songs may make you want to
dance, cry, sing, think, or just listen as deeply as one can.

June Madrona is an Olympia Folk band on Bicycle Records in the United States and Waterhouse Records, in France. They formed in 2004 and has played hundreds of shows and festivals throughout the US, and Europe.

For fans of: Nike Drake, Vashti Bunyon, Kimya Dawson, potlucks and kissing in the woods.

Music