Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

 

Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe

 

Timeline

Many of the details of Rowe’s early and middle life remain obscure. This timeline offers a portrait of her life and art alongside a selection of the major local and national events in social, political, and cultural spheres that may have had an impact on her and the bold choice she made in her later years to reclaim her artistic birthright. Consideration was given especially to events shaping the social climate of Georgia and the Atlanta metro area during her lifetime. Events that were unlikely to have reached her directly but nonetheless impacted the eventual reception of her art and posthumous legacy are also illuminated.

2021 Souls Grown Deep Foundation Fellow Christian Reeder contributed research to this project.