Our heads in Het Parool
A day after the big piece on pottery, we have the honour of seeing our lovely (if we do say so ourselves) faces in the weekend paper. Portraits of 12 Pansa people, in beautiful black and white.
Original post can be found on the website of Het Parool.
The big pottery wave continues in Het Parool
Pottery is increasingly more popular. This time in national newspaper Het Parool: an extensive visit to our studio, and some other places in Amsterdam. A lovely interview with attention to the mindful and also the tough sides to pottery.
Read the full article, in Dutch, here: Iedereen Wil Opeens Pottenbakken
A visit from De Kleine K
De Kleine K is a magazine that has been around for a long time, which focuses exclusively on ceramic arts. It has a website and a digital magazine, as well as a YouTube channel with amazing documentaries.
Mels Boom and Yna van der Meulen visited us for an extensive interview (in dutch), which can be found in the latest issue. Download it here for free.
Being featured is an honor. We thoroughly recommend you subscribe to the magazine, it’s inspiring to read.
Amsterdam FM: 'Helemaal zen bij Studio Pansa'
We’re even on local radio! Reporter Anneminke van der Velden came by and did an extensive report and interview. You can listen to it here (in Dutch).
RTL 4's EditieNL tries to work the wheel
Today we received a visit from EditieNL, the news program on Dutch TV station RTL 4. Some Studio Pansa members and of course founder Lennard were interviewed for this item. Reporter Annemarie Landman received a special lesson from Denise Aimee Rijnen, our trusted wheel throwing teacher. Unfortunately Landman was not very focused, leading to hilarious results!
Watch the item here.
RTL News: 'Is pottery the new yoga?'
RTL Nieuws wrote an article about pottery and ceramics, preparing us for the TV item to follow later today. ‘Clay is very wilful, and it takes a long time to master’, says Lennard, Studio Pansa’s founder. ‘You will be punished immediately for not being present.’
Read the article here (dutch).
Pansa in NRC Handelsblad
National newspaper NRC Handelsblad wrote an extensive article about the resurgence of ceramics, and visited our studio during the Monday morning throwing class. Working with clay and doing yoga have a lot in common, they argue, as they allow you to focus and move from your mind into your body. Some wonderful pictures were made of some of our members.
The article was published in the weekend paper today, and can be found online here.
Cultuur + Ondernemen: Lennard Houkes opent keramiekstudio in Amsterdam
Stichting Cultuur+Ondernemen is a knowledge center for entrepreneurship in the cultural field. They helped set up the plan for Studio Pansa in 2018, and wrote this article about the project.