The Team

Sushmita Mazumdar, project director, outside the Rinker Community Center at the Gates of Ballston apartment community where Studio Pause is located. Feb 2021. Photo: Mary Louise Marino
Susan Sterner, humanities scholar, speaking about stories at the reception her show, Public/Private: Aprons Tell Our Stories, Studio Pause, Feb 2020. Photo, Sushmita Mazumdar

Kori Johnson, Editor: Kori Johnson with her art and poetry at the Baked Clay/Endless Sky: Five Years of PAUSE exhibit, Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, 2018.
Photo, Yuri Long.

Ella Endo, intern: “The trees here are huge! Not like the trees we have in Minneapolis,” Ella said, as we walked through Arlington’s historic Buckingham neighborhood where the Gates of Ballston community is located. Feb 2021. Photo, Sushmita Mazumdar.
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“The Coronavirus inflicted many unwanted pauses in my life, but it also showed me pauses that I didn’t realize were needed. My most notable pause lasted a year. I decided to take a gap year between high school and college, and spend a few months here in Arlington to explore some of my own interests. I took two internships; one with AHC, an affordable housing company, and another with local artist Sushmita at StudioPause.”