Rob Ganson - Poems from the Great Divide - free

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 28, 2014

Rob Ganson, author of four volumes of poetry, will read selections from his new book, 70% Water, Poems from the great divide, as well as sign copies of his books. Rob is highly involved in the struggle to save the water and air of the Northwoods from the threat of a proposed mountaintop removal mine. With Rob comes the symbol of the Penokee Hills Light Brigade, the gifted water drop.

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