World AIDS Day/A Day Without Art will also be a day without light for the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA). The museumžs windows will be shrouded in black and hung with large red ribbons, a symbol of AIDS advocacy worldwide, and the front lawn will become a "cemetery" of smaller red ribbons that have been inscribed with personal meaning by members of the Williamstown community.

December 1 is set aside worldwide to commemorate the devastation of AIDS; a Day Without Art is sponsored by Visual AIDS, a national organization of art professionals. WCMA's local observance, The Red Ribbon Installation, will be on display that day from 9 a.m.-9 p.m. The observation will conclude with a candlelight vigil 8-9 p.m. in front of the museum.

Students and other members of the Williamstown community are invited to attend workshops to inscribe ribbons for the lawn with words or pictures, showing how the epidemic has touched their lives. As part of the Red Ribbon Installation, the inscribed ribbons will also be on view in early 1998 on WCMA's Web site (http://www/williams.edu/WCMA) for an extended period.

The red ribbons will be available for inscription during open workshops November 17-21, 11 a.m-1 p.m., in the mailroom of Baxter Hall on the Williams College campus.

Community members are encouraged to support World AIDS Day/A Day Without Art by inscribing ribbons, participating in the candlelight vigil, and visiting the installation to share in this day of collective mourning.

The annual Ribbon Project of Williams College, which distributes ribbons to all students, faculty, and staff, reinforces the red ribbon as the symbol of AIDS advocacy and support.

The Red Ribbon Installation is being organized by Tiffany Reed, a graduate intern at the Williams College Museum of Art. For information or to participate in this installation, contact Reed at WCMA at (413) 597-2037.