Oakland, CA–November 2, 2008. Mills College professor of art history Moira Roth is one of 21 artists selected to represent the Bay Area in a multidisciplinary group exhibition.

"Bay Area Now 5" is the fifth triennial survey of works by Bay Area artists that includes painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation, and conceptual projects as well as a performances and readings.

A collaboration with Ginger Wolfe-Suarez and Primitivo Suarez-Wolfe, Roth's poetry is displayed in an installation entitled: Shelter for Poetry. Concrete blocks create a bomb shelter to house a 16" x 20" illustrated book containing 11 of Roth's poems from a war-themed collection entitled "From Far Away."

According to the Berkeley Daily Planet, Roth "presents a beautiful large book with maps of her peaceful Berkeley neighborhood that make an evocative contrast to maps and enlarged documentary photographs-many of them from the New York Times-of struggle, war, and destruction in Guernica, Alabama, Hiroshima, and Bagdad. Called Atlas of War and Peace, this is a deeply affecting work."

The exhibition continues through Nov. 16, 2008 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St., San Francisco.

More information is available from the Mills College Art History Department.

Nestled in the foothills of Oakland, California, Mills College is a nationally renowned, independent liberal arts college offering a dynamic progressive education that fosters leadership, social responsibility, and creativity to approximately 950 undergraduate women and 500 graduate women and men. Since 2000, applications to Mills College have more than doubled. The College is named one of the top colleges in the West by U.S. News & World Report, one of the Best 368 Colleges by the Princeton Review, and ranks 75th among America's best colleges by Forbes.com. Visit us at www.mills.edu.

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