Since September, photographer Carrie Mae Weems has been working with staff from the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) and ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance to bring her Resist COVID / Take 6! public health campaign to Williamstown. Weems developed the campaign with her colleague Pierre Loving, a performing arts and film curator based in New York.

I didn’t watch Minari in theaters; my ticket was for an A24 virtual cinema screening. But there was nevertheless something special, something intimate about this viewing experience.

I did not intend on seeing what I presumed to be the latest iteration of the “white lesbian period piece,” a romantic drama called The World to Come about two neighbors who fall for one another in 1800s upstate New York. But while sleepily skimming a review of the film on an online arts blog, a line caught my eye: Professor of English Jim Shepard, who had taught a couple of my friends over the years at the College, had written the film’s screenplay.

To help members of the College community overcome the fatigue of perpetual social distancing, the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) partnered with local wellness professionals to hold a month-long series of weekly virtual workshops called “Cures for Strange Times.”

As students returned to campus and began their in-room quarantines during this past week, registered student organizations like Williams Photography Club, Good Question A Cappella, and Ritmo Latino filled the extra downtime with art. They led events as part of the College’s Quarantine’s Cozy Comforts series, which offered quarantine-friendly programming organized by the Student Athlete Advisory Committee.

For many students, Valentine’s Day was spent in quarantine. Thinking of all those students socially distanced or quarantined from loved ones, the Record reached out to professors who study poetry asking for recommendations for love poems. The Record received five responses and compiled them into a small list of recommendations.

The College’s long winter break has been an opportunity to spend time with our families, work on ourselves, and consume a lot of media. Here are three new albums that were released as we stayed at home over break.

Harry Yoon ’93, the film editor for “Minari,” wants people to watch the movie with their families. Having known about the central plot — a Korean American family that, on a gamble, buys farmland, and tries to make it in 1980s Arkansas — I plopped my mom, dad, and sister in front of our TV.

With our unusually long winter break and upcoming in-room quarantine, the Record compiled art recommendations from students at the College via Instagram. For those students studying remotely this semester or taking time off, we hope that these recommendations help you stay connected to the College community, no matter where you are. From cartoons to crafts and everything in between, we hope you enjoy!

Four recently released albums recorded and edited by students at the College.

Joseph Thompson ’81, or Joe as most people call him, is most well known for having run MASS MoCA for the past 33 years, ever since helping to found the institution in 1987.

Kusika, the College’s African Dance group, performing at the 2014 Inside/Outside series at Jacob’s Pillow. (Photo courtesy of Jamie Kraus/Jacob’s Pillow Dance.) On Nov. 17, the Doris Duke Theatre...