The Rollins Museum of Art welcomes La Vaughn Belle's The House that Freedoms Built

The Rollins Museum of Art announced that a significant installation by Saint Croix artist La Vaughn Belle (b. 1974, Tobago): The House that Freedoms Built will be welcomed to campus and situated outdoors as part of a dynamic two-year series of artist installations and interventions that explore architecture and the built environment through various media and by raising questions about physical space. The series begins with Belle’s The House that Freedoms Built and will conclude with a commissioned work for the Rollins Museum of Art’s new facility, opening in early 2028. Commissioned by Powerhouse Arts, The House that Freedoms Built debuted as part of the Smithsonian’s Design Triennial at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, in New York in Fall 2024. The piece will be displayed only the second time when it arrives on the Rollins College campus on July 24, 2026. The timing of its display coincides with America 250 celebrations that commemorate