The Geoff and Kia Show - $6

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, February 15, 2013

This Valentine\'s Recovery edition of The Geoff and Kia Show features a special acoustic Yammer set, with musical tales of love, minivans, and palindromes; plus the eagerly anticipated encore performance of the Sockrates\' Sock Puppet Carnival of Morals and Logic production of Dostoevsky\'s \"The Devils\". This, PLUS all of the improvised chaos and witty married-people banter you\'ve come to expect from The Geoff and Kia Show.

So come on down to Mother Fool\'s Coffee House for delicious beverages and pastries served up with a side of vibraphone, horn, accordion, theremin, scrap metal, plastic bags, and sock puppet thespianry.

$6, all ages (puppet show rated R for violence and language).

And, as always: No Refunds.