Uploaded December 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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“Throughout Nellie Mae Rowe’s life you see her reclaiming a creative vision that was certainly present when she was a child, but also reclaiming a sense of self that she wasn’t able to fully leap into when she was moving about the world,” says Jenée-Daria Strand in the latest episode of Reclaimed.

Ingenious. Bright. Energetic. We hope you can visit Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe before the exhibition closes on January 1, 2023. #NellieMaeRoweBkM

brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/nellie_mae_rowe