Liz Roth will be painting 24 Portraits in 24 Hours. Sign up in the cafe to have your portrait done.

Here are last years portraits.

Liz Roth is a painter/printmaker who depicts social concerns in a humorous way - whether it's about coworkers functioning as a reluctant substitute family in the United States (Cheeseburger Soup, a series about Madison Department of Transportation workers), or how Americans perceive the relationship between beauty and weight (she completed a nude self-portrait-a-day project for six months, see www.lizroth.com). She's been invited to Japan to create art installations and public art works dealing with environmental issues.

In the last few months, Liz has received a Madison citiARTS grant for a public painting project, and a generous national grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation to create her next big installation, America: 101.

During the past couple of years Roth has been an artist in residence at the Jentel Artist Foundation (in Wyoming), the Awagami Paper Factory (in Japan), the Kamiyama (Japan) Artists in Residence program, and the Vermont Studio Center. In Japan, she completed a painting installation, as well as an outdoor, interactive, collaborative, printmaking/book arts project. In 2001 she was one of two painters awarded the Wisconsin Arts Board Individual Artist Fellowship.

Her works have been acquired by many national and international collections, including the Walker Museum of Art, the Museu del Joguet in Spain, the Museum of Awa Japanese Paper, and the KAIR Contemporary Art Collection.