Chewing gum sculptures, a wealthy gallerist, a notorious murder case, and the segregated south - it's all part of Nellie | dG1fdzdraC1nZkZnemc
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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:10 >> She wasn't trying to be a prima donna,
00:21 she wasn't trying to be an important artist.
00:23 >> Nelly tended to sign Nelly May Rowe on everything.
00:27 Who would think of making a statue out of chewing gum?
00:30 >> If you came in and was like, what is that?
00:33 >> Never knew that that was art, you know what I'm saying?
00:37 >> She was a fun going lady.
00:40 [LAUGH]
00:42 [MUSIC]
00:44 >> The community that we lived in was a small pocket of black people.
00:48 And everywhere else it was very affluent white people.
00:51 They weren't very nice.
00:52 [SOUND]
00:53 >> They throw rocks, knock out my window.
00:56 Some firecrackers and everything.
00:58 [SOUND]
00:59 >> Nelly May Rowe witnessed the time and era of the Atlanta race riot.
01:04 Had seen white terror when nothing was being done.
01:08 >> She did a couple pieces on the murdered and missing children.
01:11 [SOUND]
01:15 >> Judith Alexander decided to start representing Nelly May Rowe.
01:19 >> They came from opposite ends of the spectrum.
01:22 >> Just marvelous, Nelly.
01:24 >> No, no, I'm not supposed to be in this movie.
01:29 >> She would agree to sell a painting and then change her mind.
01:32 And I said, this is the craziest woman in Atlanta.
01:35 >> A relationship that was instantaneous, like a spark.
01:39 >> She was drawing because she loved to draw.
01:43 And then she found that there were people that loved her drawings.
01:47 Who knows, Nelly May Rowe may be considered high art one day.
01:53 >> Her world is beautiful.
01:55 It's full of hope.
01:56 [MUSIC]
02:06 >> This world is not my home.
02:12 It ain't my home.
02:13 [MUSIC]