Throughout “The Pencil Is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists” examples abound of the ingenious ways that imprisoned artists draw by any means available to them, despite limited resources and materials. Laundry pencils, ballpoint pen refills, food, and bodily fluids are applied to scraps of cloth, letters, envelopes, bills, and discarded packaging. . Lily Ester Rivas Labbé, a Chilean artist who was detained by the police forces of General Augusto Pinochet dictatorial regime, used the reverse side of wrapping paper from mailed packages to create sketches of her surroundings and figures lounging at the soccer field while being detained at Estado Regional, which operated as a prison camp from 1973 to 1974. On June 8, 1975, Rivas was exiled from the country, traveling directly from Tres Alamos to Sweden. Her exile revoked, she returned to Chile on December 26, 1978. . “The Pencil is Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists” is on view in our Main Gallery and Drawing Room until January 5, ...