Studio PAUSE

04/09/2026

WE STARTED A GOFUNDME!

Started by LouLou Marino, who’s been a part of Studio PAUSE since it opened, this is our first ever crowd-funding campaign! We hope you’ll join us in supporting our new project.

We’re building a new Studio PAUSE Community Gallery Exhibit, inviting people who live, work, and play in Arlington to share their unique perspectives on Virginia. It’s a glimpse into the myriad interpretations, stories, and experiences that make up our community, commemorating the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and Independence of the United States. As we do this we learn about our state, its history, and the people who live in it. Click, donate, and join us!

Hello, I'm LouLou Marino and I've been involved with Studio PA… LouLou Marino needs your support for Support Studio PAUSE’s Virginia250 Community Art Exhibit!

01/03/2026

The fog comes / on little cat feet, but epiphanies lumber and wag their trunks.
So much depends / upon // a red wheel / barrow, yet nothing trusts a chartreuse husk.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? You wish I were an icy road on solstice night.
Death, be not proud; how unassuming, Life...

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Come join Elise Cleva in "printing" our own poems & works of art from existing pieces that serve as our negatives! “With the warmest of hat tips to Lisa Russ Spaar, I'm leading a writing & art session at Studio PAUSE on Columbia Pike, Thurs., Jan. 8, 5:30 pm. It's free (although you're welcome to make a free-will offering to support Studio PAUSE, an incandescent resource for our community).” - Elise

Register here at www.StudioPause.com/events

10/07/2025

TOMORROW at the Buckingham studio! Join us from 6- 7:30 pm for Conversations & Writings with Emma. Listen to snippets from her memoir Dreams & Shadows, and be encouraged to write your own stories in this casual and safe environment.

09/19/2025

Tomorrow is Green Valley Day!

Come check out our completed project "Me, Here, & Green Valley": A City of Stories project. And share your Green Valley story too!

Our display will be up from 12-5.

Check out the details of this incredible project with AHC and @ Arlington Arts grant project at www.StudioPause.com/projects/greenvalley2025

08/21/2025

Such a great experience to collaborate with Rev. Ashley Goff of Arlington Presbyterian Church on Columbia Pike, and be able to speak up in our own way about the harm being done in our community and counter it with memory, resistance, and care.

A new collaboration between a South Arlington church and a local artist is seeking to memorialize places where immigration enforcement has arrested people in Arlington. Led by the Rev. Ashley Goff, members of Arlington Presbyterian Church, artist Sushmita Mazumdar and other "trusted neighbors" set o...

08/17/2025

Such a wonderfully detailed story about the work of the Columbia Pike Documentary Project. And so many wonderful photographs. Hooray!

(There will be copies of the paper at the Studio for those who protest cancelled their subscriptions.)

Columbia Pike has been called a ‘world in a Zip code’ because residents come from more than 125 countries.

07/18/2025

A wonderful story about our event at the Columbia Pike Library last Saturday. So happy for the residents of the Pike who shared their stories through their art and videos!

A new documentary delving into the lives of residents at a Columbia Pike affordable housing complex made its debut on Saturday. "We Are Barcroft: A 60-Acre History of People & Place," seeks to preserve the stories of people who came to the Barcroft Apartments from around the globe. Filmmaker Dewey T...

07/09/2025

This Saturday at 2 -4 pm, join us at the Columbia Pike Library for our community event: We Are Barcroft documentary viewing and Art Reception for our exhibit “Me, Here, on Columbia Pike: Stories of People & Place as shared at Studio PAUSE.”
Light refreshments will be served.
More at www.StudioPause.com/events

07/05/2025

And finally our new exhibit is up—“Through the Words of Photographers Tielie Guo and Alex Sakes” In the works since 2022 the exhibit puts their words alongside the images they create so we can understand how they think and feel as they document our state, city, and streets. Read all about it on our project page here www.StudioPause.com/projects/photographers

06/09/2025

Please join us for Lyrical Journeys: Art PAUSE at the Columbia Pike Blues Fest 2025, Saturday June 14, 1-8:30 pm, at Columbia Pike + S. Walter Reed Drive, Arlington VA 22204

Visit the Studio PAUSE booth, designed to provide a PAUSE amidst all the festivities.
• See our pop-up exhibit “Lyrical Journeys” and enjoy how artists create art from music, song lyrics, and moods created by music.
• Create your own Blues Fest inspired artwork
• Watch artists create art as they listen to the music playing
• Buy art inspired by music to support our first fundraiser

See you there! With MaryLouise Marino Uyanga Gankhuyag Sharmila Karamchandani