Dan Phelps

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 23, 2019
8:00 pm

Illinois native Dan Phelps first got his start playing electric, Chicago-style blues until he happened upon a Son House album. Since then, Dan been specializing in his unique style of 1920s and 1930s style blues for well over three decades. He’s travelled with his resonator guitar and gruff vocals bringing his music to audiences all over. Dan has toured the US, UK, and Europe; recorded four critically-acclaimed CDs; and has performed frequently on radio and television shows both the US and abroad.