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studioELL® LLC is an artist-run social enterprise based in eastern connecticut. we offer hybrid courses and residencies — both in-person and online — centered on studio art practice. part critique, part studio visit, studioELL merges elements of higher and continuing education to reimagine how learning and support function in community-based art education.

we promote critical thinking and civic action through art, urging students, artists and institutions to question how art is made, taught and shared. we challenge institutional norms by co-opting their language, building communal spaces for critique and creating systems of mutual support.

while rooted in new england, studioELL operates nationally and internationally through local artist-professors. our asynchronous classrooms offer flexibility, and our residency-style structure helps artists stay connected to practice and community. studioELL sustains studio work within everyday life.

studioELL.org | about

intermission museum of art (ima) was founded in 2020 by rose van mierlo and john ros in response to the cultural, social, environmental, economic and political ruptures exposed during times of crisis. ima offers a space for critical thinkers to investigate these moments as meaningful sites of production, generating dialogue that culminates in a public archive. 

ima’s name evokes open space — flipping through archives, cracks in the pavement, commercial breaks and pauses — moments of disruption that resist institutional control. ima proposes the museum as a site of uncertainty, a building without walls, a host and guest, a cross-pollination of non-hierarchical voices. it rejects the power architecture of the white cube, opting instead for lateral networks that decentralize and democratize access and participation.

intermissionmuseum.org | about