Freedom Night Open Mic

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, November 24, 2018
8:00 pm

Guitars, flutes, poems both vehement and gentle, costumes, coins and paper butterflies scattered about...Genre bending welcome.

It's the November edition of Freedom Night Open mic, hosted by Angelica Engel.

Sign up starts at 7:30. The show starts at 8.

Open Mic