"(Nan Coulter / Special Contributor) 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 ...

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.

That’s the flag that I fly! There’s some abstract art I like, don’t get me wrong, but we (the Pencil Brothers) were reacting to the abstract works we thought didn’t deserve so much acclaim ...

Many artists have used pencils to create works of art - but Dalton Ghetti creates ... "At school I would carve a friend's name into the wood of a pencil and then give it to them as a present.