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.

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.

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 this Thursday evening for our first Reading PAUSE! One day at the Studio 3 people wanted to share books they loved with us and thought we should read together. Not a book club so no book to read before hand. We read at the studio. The first book we will read is from the collection of books donated to the Studio by Ken Krafchek, emeritus professor from Maryland Institute College of Art.

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 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 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.

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 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.

Community PAUSE: Listen to partners, artists, poets, and special guests who help with the opening of the new space and the 2 exhibits. Join in making a communtiy artwork as well!