As we prepare for our VA250 exhibit many ideas shared have to do with the US flag. As we talk and discuss, I learn many stories of the flag, including how a Supreme Court ruling allows for the US flag to be used in so many ways. Join us to learn more and make your own expressions of the flag using various materials. ~ Sushmita Mazumdar

Please join us for a reception and artist talk for Sushmita’s exhibit at the Cherrydale library, Arlington VA.

When Sushmita lived in India, her family celebrated during the January festival of Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of arts and knowledge, and as an artist today, her art reflects many of her traditions from India and mixes them with her experience in the US. While creating a collaborative book project, Wandering Leaves Emerging Roots, inspired by the Bengali songs of Rabindranath Tagore, Sushmita re-learned how to write her native Bengali script in new ways.

In this Thursday PAUSE, listen to the Bengali songs, read the English translations, see Sushmita’s art, and use Chinese ink to make your own expressive art.

Thursday PAUSE: Poetic Negatives with Elise Cleva

Bring a poem (yours or someone else's) or an image of a visual artwork and join us for a Thursday PAUSE: a Poetry (and Art) PAUSE at the Studio where you get to explore creativity with our community.

Our new Thursday PAUSE series starts off in January 2026 with a session led by local poet Elise Cleva. We'll do an exercise developed by one of Elise's teachers, poet Lisa Russ Spaar. Our poems and artworks will form negatives from which we'll "print" our own poems and art.

Victor Hurtado has been teaching private singing classes for military veterans via The Armed Services Armed Partnership (ASAP) for many Saturdays this year at the Studio. When that ended, he and the veterans wanted to continue their “Music Sessions from Studio Pause,” and now they are opening up their hearts and singing voices to the community in a livestream finale of their last session together! 

As it was her first oil pastel artwork, Sarah wanted to share art from her native Peru and combine it with their tradition of having hot chocolate with Paneton, a special Peruvian version of a fruit cake eaten during the Christmas season. Join us for our last event of the year, make art, and enjoy a beloved Peruvian experience from Sarah’s childhood.

Arlington poet Yessenia Arias’ poems are in our current exhibit Hope Without Boundaries, but they are from her exhibit at Studio PAUSE (Buckingham), from 2016, which are part of our Studio PAUSE Community Art Collection. As she continues to write and encourage others to do the same, we invite you to join her in two sessions, one in November and one in December.

Join curator Sushmita Mazumdar for a tour of our current exhibit, Hope Without Boundaries/Esperanza Sin Limites. There will also be time for an art/writing activity and of course, discussion.

In this series of Family Art PAUSEs this November, we invite parents with children 5 years and older to PAUSE, and make time for art with artists at Studio PAUSE.

Arlington poet Yessenia Arias’ poems are in our current exhibit Hope Without Boundaries, but they are from her exhibit at Studio PAUSE (Buckingham), from 2016, which are part of our Studio PAUSE Community Art Collection. As she continues to write and encourage others to do the same, we invite you to join her in two sessions, one in November and one in December.

In this series of Family Art PAUSEs this November, we invite parents with children 5 years and older to PAUSE, and make time for art with artists at Studio PAUSE.

Join curator Sushmita Mazumdar for a tour of our current exhibit, Hope Without Boundaries/Esperanza Sin Limites. There will also be time for an art/writing activity and of course, discussion.

In this series of Family Art PAUSEs this November, we invite parents with children 5 years and older to PAUSE, and make time for art with artists at Studio PAUSE.

Local poet Ruben D. Sira leads us in a casual poetry writing workshop accompanied by tea, which is a favorite experience of his. Write in any language as he shares his poem in Spanish and English and guides participants to explore their own colors.

Join us for our Community PAUSE: Hope Without Boundaries as we continue to celebrate the creations of our Latino communities at the Studio.

Join us for Conversations & Writing with author Emma Violand-Sánchez who will discuss her book Dreams and Shadows.

CANCELLED! Join us for Art PAUSE with artist David Ramos as we explore simple ways to make an artwork with a Cardinal, the symbol of Virginia.

Join us for Conversations & Writing with author Emma Violand-Sánchez who will discuss her book Dreams and Shadows.

Join us at Arlington County’s Hispanic Heritage Month celebration at Festival Latinoamericano!

Make time to explore creativity with people whose work is on view in the current Columbia Pike Library exhibit! Join us for two workshops—APS art teacher Girasol O’Neill will explore watercolors and ink with elementary school-age children and their caregivers, and retired art professor Ken Krafchek will do a monoprinting workshop for teens and adults.  This program is free, and all supplies are provided.

Join us for viewing the documentary film, “We Are Barcroft”- a 60-Acre History of People & Place (45 mins) which shares the oral history videos of 8 people who belong to the Barcroft Apartment community, in conjunction with the exhibit, “Me, Here, and Columbia Pike: Stories of People & Place as shared at Studio PAUSE”. There will be a Q&A and an artists’ talk following.

The PoeTree, in its newest form, is being created by artist Sharmila Karamchandani at the Columbia Pike Studio. It will be decorated with poems written by people from all over Arlington, celebrating and sharing the creativity in our community this April for National Poetry Month!

Join us for Art PAUSE as we continue to celebrate National Poetry Month. This week, make your own haiku poetry slip and leave it behind so we can hang it on our “PoeTree”! Then come back to see the PoeTree bloom with the creativity in the community.

All materials provided and no experience needed!

Suggested donation: $10/child ages 5 and up. Free for caregivers and younger siblings.

Join us for a Studio Tour of our new exhibit “The Poetry Fence Comes to Arlington!” and The PoeTree Project this April. As we celebrate April and National Poetry Month, join curator Sushmita Mazumdar for a tour and a fun poetry activity inspired by the exhibit.

Free.