Pencil on Paper Gallery, co-owned by artists and married power couple Emmanuel and Valerie Gillespie, has quickly become a center for contemporary Black art and art education. The gallery has ...

Instead, the pencil is accessible, plebeian and utilitarian. If put in the right hands, it can also produce incredible works of art. Pencils are often relegated to sketching and drafting.

The Pencil Is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists Through Jan. 5 at the Drawing Center, 35 Wooster Street, Manhattan; 212-219-2166, drawingcenter.org.