The Bell
The Bell
The Bell
ON VIEW
Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom
The Bell premieres the newest project from internationally-renowned sound, video, and installation artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. Featuring interviews with former political prisoners made on location in Palestine, "Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom" celebrates poetry, music, and art as forms of expressing individual and collective survivance within systems of incarceration across time and space.
“I Shall Resist”: Collective Reading and Collage Workshop
May 2 and 16, 2–3:30 pm
In this guided tour and collage workshop, participants will directly engage with the poem “Enemy of the Sun” by Samih al-Qasim alongside the artistic methods of Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. Through conversation and artmaking, participants will be invited to reflect on what the exhibition has to teach us about intervening in our present moment. Facilitated by Jovanna Walker, M.A. in Public Humanities and Kalian Schradie, B.A. in Education Studies and Public Health.
THE BELL
The Bell is Brown's contemporary art space and a program of the Brown Arts Institute. Free and open to the public.
The Bell’s program is defined by new commissions and exhibition projects with emerging and underrecognized artists whose work aligns with the interdisciplinary research interests of its curatorial team.
The Bell commissions two to three major exhibitions a year that are amplified by public events and conversations, performances, artist residencies, academic symposia, and publications. They are developed with Brown faculty, departments, centers, and institutes and with partners in the Providence region, nationally, and internationally.
The Bell maintains a collection of more than 7,000 works of art, dating from the 16th century to the present, with particularly rich holdings in 20th and 21st century works on paper. Recent acquisitions include works by Deana Lawson, Sadie Barnette, and Martine Gutierrez.
HOURS
The Bell is open daily to all visitors with Brown IDs from 11 AM–5 PM, and both Thursdays & Fridays 11 AM–8 PM while exhibitions are on view, with the exception of holiday closures.
In accordance with University policy, visitors without Brown IDs should register for designated public gallery hours through this ticketing page. The Bell’s public gallery hours for Spring 2026 are Thursdays, 5–8 PM and Saturdays, 11am–5 PM
ADDRESS AND CONTACT INFO
David Winton Bell Gallery
List Art Building
Brown University
64 College Street
Providence, RI 02912
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Tel: 401-863-2932
Fax: 401-863-9323
Email: bell_gallery@brown.edu
Top banner and exhibition image: Still from Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Prisoners of Love (2025).