In this artist-led series designed to provide a PAUSE, create small and simple works of book art and incorporate a bit of creativity, mindfulness, and reflection into your Saturday. This week’s topic is: Being Home

Join us at Asia After Dark: Diwali Festival at the National Museum of Asia Art! — “an after-hours event where we light up the museum in celebration of light overcoming darkness. Enjoy food and sweets, watch performances, create crafts, and more.” Create a handmade storybook with Sushmita Mazumdar, “Abundance is Bright: Celebrating Goddess Lakshmi & Diwali.”

In this artist-led series designed to provide a PAUSE, create small and simple works of book art and incorporate a bit of creativity, mindfulness, and reflection into your Saturday. This week’s topic is: A Word I Fear

Join us for the opening exhibit of Arlington Weaves, Etc., showcasing a diverse range of hand-dyed and handwoven products that they have been “dyeing” to show you!

In this artist-led series designed to provide a PAUSE, create small and simple works of book art and incorporate a bit of creativity, mindfulness, and reflection into your Saturdays over three sessions: Oct 19: A Book of Wishes, Oct 26: A Word I Fear, and Nov 2: Being Home.

Join us at Festival Latinoamericano 2024 where we'll share the art and stories of the Studio’s Latino PAUSErs who made time to explore creativity at the Columbia Pike Studio. We also include photos and stories from the Columbia Pike Documentary Project and present oral history videos of Latinos in our community.

Join us for a FREE Art PAUSE with Studio PAUSE and artist Girasol O’Neill at Movie Night @ Arlington Mill Community Center. Designed to compliment the vibrant music in the movie Vivo, we will learn about different Cuban instruments and create equally vibrant drawings inspired by sound waves.

Join us one Thursday evening a month for Poetry PAUSE! Inspired by our favorite poems and poets, we write, we share, we listen.

$10 or pay what you wish. Free for residents of Barcroft Apartments.

Join us to enjoy the creative ways in which the residents of Barcroft Apartments tell their stories of “Me, Here,” through Exhibit 3 and Exhibit 4 of Sushmita Mazumdar’s Arlington Arts grant project Curating 4 Community Art Exhibits.

Listen to the contributors’ poetry and write your own. Then learn how to use brush and ink to write a Japanese word inspired by a work of art in the exhibit, and take your creations home with you.

Join us to enjoy the creative ways in which the residents of Barcroft Apartments tell their stories of “Me, Here,” through Exhibit 3 and Exhibit 4 of Sushmita Mazumdar’s Arlington Arts grant project Curating 4 Community Art Exhibits.

Listen to the contributors share and perform. In the exhibit, we find sky, trees, grass, stars, clouds, flowers, and leaves—all things that tell the stories of “Here.” Then learn how to make an artwork inspired by our young residents and take your own “Me, Here” home with you.

Join us one Thursday evening a month for Writing PAUSE! It is the simplest kind of creative practice and we have been at it for 10 years. Discover what happens when you write with us — for just 10 minutes with paper and pen. We write, we share, we listen.

$10 or pay what you wish. Free for residents of Barcroft Apartments

Join us in a celebration of the art of students from Carlin Springs Elementary School in this pop-up exhibit. Put on by art teachers Girasol O’Neill and Martha Rose, the exhibit showcases how they use the book arts in their classrooms to allow for the students to express their stories.

Join us as we write inspired by our favorite poems and poets. We write, we share, we listen. 

Space is limited. $10 or pay what you wish. Free for residents of Barcroft Apartments.

Join us one Thursday evening a month for Writing PAUSE! It is the simplest kind of creative practice and we have been at it for 10 years! Discover what happens when you write with us — for just 10 minutes with paper and pen. We write, we share, we listen.

Adam Henry, the Studio PAUSE artist-in-residence for 2024, is working on an Animal Sculpture Project at the 2 locations of the Studio in Arlington, VA.

Adam created a life-size Silverback Gorilla from January to March, at the Gates of Ballston location of the Studio, housed in the Rinker Community Center in AHC’s Gates of Ballston community.

We invite you to come see the amazing site-specific sculpture along with others Adam has created, as well as some incredible animal sketches from his son who helped in the project. Enjoy meeting the artist and more. Light refreshments will be served.

Northern VA Local Arts Agencies Workshop:

Join Sushmita Mazumdar at Studio PAUSE to learn how to authentically engage your community in arts programming. Artists and arts organizations will get an overview of ways to engage the community they are trying to serve. Instructor Sushmita Mazumdar will share how her artist’s projects and others she has observed or been part of hope to use art to achieve long-term outcomes, try our new processes, and build relationships.

Register here!

If you have any accommodation needs, please contact info.nvlaa@gmail.com at least two weeks prior to the event.

Join Lloyd Wolf, director of the Columbia Pike Documentary Project, for a walking tour of the Pike. First we’ll look at the CPDP exhibit on view “Me, Here: Stories of Barcroft Apartments as told by the Columbia Pike Documentary Project” then walk the Pike with the team, listen to stories, and see the books.

Join the Barcroft Apartment residents and Studio PAUSE to celebrate Eid with stories, art, food, and fun.

Join us one Thursday evening a month for Writing PAUSE! It is the simplest kind of creative practice and we have been at it for 10 years! Discover what happens when you write with us — for just 10 minutes with paper and pen. We write, we share, we listen.

This March, I am thrilled to give my first Studio Tour AND bookmaking workshop of the two exhibits “Me, Here:” Stories of People & Place. As the 4 exhibits at the new Columbia Pike Studio location are part of my Arlington Arts Individual Artist’s grant, I had planned to document the work by creating a catalog and telling the stories of how the exhibits came about.
As a book artist, I thought it would be fun to teach people how to make their own copy. The unique Handmade Storybook will have space inside for each participant to write their own “Me, Here” story after the tour where they will see how so many tell their stories, even as they learn how to fold and bind their own copies. No previous expeience in bookmaking is neccessary.

Materials fee: $25 • Free for residents of Barcroft Apartments (while registering choose Pay Later)

This March, I am thrilled to give my first Studio Tour AND bookmaking workshop of the two exhibits “Me, Here:” Stories of People & Place. As the 4 exhibits at the new Columbia Pike Studio location are part of my Arlington Arts Individual Artist’s grant, I had planned to document the work by creating a catalog and telling the stories of how the exhibits came about.
As a book artist, I thought it would be fun to teach people how to make their own copy. The unique Handmade Storybook will have space inside for each participant to write their own “Me, Here” story after the tour where they will see how so many tell their stories, even as they learn how to fold and bind their own copies. No previous expeience in bookmaking is neccessary.

Materials fee: $25 • Free for residents of Barcroft Apartments

Join us one Thursday evening a month for Writing PAUSE! It is the simplest kind of creative practice and we have been at it for 10 years! Discover what happens when you write with us — for just 10 minutes with paper and pen. We write, we share, we listen.

Join us for a tour of Studio PAUSE on Columbia Pike and learn about the work of the Studio PAUSE Community and the Columbia Pike Documentary Project, both of which are featured here. These FREE monthly tours are given by founder of the studio and curator of the exhibits Sushmita Mazumdar. The exhibits are up till March 2024. For tours in Spanish or reserved tours please email Sush here.

Meet local African American artists Felecia McFail @fohta_ , Andrea Blackmon of ArlingtonWeaves Etc, and Adam Henry @adamhenry351. Hear their story, see their work, and be inspired!

Explore finding your voice through poetry writing. In this once-a-month session, participants will be provided with different examples of poetry writing and encouraged to explore which one feels the most fitting to telling the story they wish to tell.

As we end the year wishing people a “Happy Holidays” we wanted to hear how they celebrated “the Holidays” after all. Join us in our January 2024 Community PAUSE: Celebrating “The Holidays” & a Happy New Year to hear from the community members how they celebrated “the holidays” in so many different ways.

Then watch Studio PAUSE artists do an expressive calligraphy demonstration where they write wishes for a Happy New Year in various scripts, languages, and styles of expression!

Free. Light refreshments will be served.

Explore finding your voice through poetry writing. In this once-a-month session, participants will be provided with different examples of poetry writing and encouraged to explore which one feels the most fitting to telling the story they wish to tell.

Join us one Thursday evening a month for Writing PAUSE! It is the simplest kind of creative practice and we have been at it for 10 years! Discover what happens when you write with us — for just 10 minutes with paper and pen. We write, we share, we listen.

Join us for a tour of Studio PAUSE on Columbia Pike and learn about the work of the Studio PAUSE Community and the Columbia Pike Documentary Project, both of which are featured here. These FREE monthly tours are given by founder of the studio and curator of the exhibits Sushmita Mazumdar. The exhibits are up till March 2024. For tours in Spanish or reserved tours please email Sush here.

Join us at the Studio for a Family PAUSE session where your older kids, ages 5 up will enjoy an Art PAUSE with artist Sharmila Karamchandani. Meanwhile caregivers, parents, and younger siblings can take the time to relax, enjoy a storybook, or enjoy our art exhibits.