The Pencil Is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists
October 11, 2019 – January 5, 2020
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DrawNow! Online! with Aimee Good
May 14, 2020, 12:30pm
Sérgio Sister, Impress your feelings with your fingerprint, 1970, Econoline ink, oil pastel and hydrographic pen on paper, 17 3/8 x 17 inches (44 x 43 cm), Courtesy of the artist and Galeria Nara Roesler
Join Director of Education + Community Programs, Aimee Good, for a participatory workshop centered on drawings featured in our 2019 exhibition The Pencil Is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists.
Focused on the power of drawing as a vehicle for imagining freedom in the broadest sense,The Pencil Is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists included over 140 drawings produced over a roughly two-hundred-year period from all around the world. Join us in considering and witnessing a selection of these artists and their drawings.
Credits
Free DrawNow! workshops are made possible by the Cy Twombly Foundation.
The Drawing Center's Education and Community Programs are made possible by the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc. Major support is provided by The Evelyn Toll Family Foundation.
Additional support is provided, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation.