Solidarity Meet & Greet at Mother Fool\'s

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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Monday, December 26, 2011

4 - 7 pm. Free and open to the public.

AJ O\'Neil, owner of AJ-s Music Caf- near Detroit, MI, held a \'Solidarity with Wisconsin\' concert back in March. This was AJ\'s third annual coffeehouse concert focusing on the plight of the American worker. This year the caf- broke the Guinness World Record for holding the longest continuous concert in history -- over 360 hours!

Part of the requirement for the Guinness record is to have a clock on stage as artists perform. O-Neil bought a decorative metal plate featuring the state of Wisconsin at a Salvation Army store and had a friend install a U.S.-made clock in it.

-Every time you look at the stage, you are going to see Wisconsin,- O-Neil said.

AJ O\'Neil is now running for Congress (in Michigan) and is touring his state (his candidacy was recently endorsed by Michael Moore!). AJ will be taking a detour next week to stop in Madison and meet with some of the people of Wisconsin who have been standing up for workers\' rights.

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