CERAMICS COURSES
WHETHER YOU’RE COMPLETELY NEW TO CERAMICS, OR HAVE BEEN SHAPING CLAY FOR YEARS, WE’LL HELP YOU ALONG YOUR CREATIVE JOURNEY
Our ceramics and pottery classes and courses give you the space and tools you need to improve at your own pace. Discover techniques, experiment, and find your own way with clay in one of our: Taster Classes, Multi-Week Courses, One-Week Intensive Courses, Workshops or Private Group Classes.
We announce our courses at the start of each new month and spots often fill up quickly! Sign up for our newsletter to never miss registration day again!
P.S studio members receive discounts on courses! For more info check out the membership page
FIND YOUR LEVEL
BEGINNER
Beginner level courses are suitable for anyone without prior experience with ceramics. We will get you acquainted with the craft by exploring all the fundamental techniques and skills.
Even if you do have prior experience,
these are great for refreshing your technique!
INTERMEDIATE
Intermediate level courses are suitable for people with prior experience with ceramics. After 2 or more all-level or beginner courses* or a longer period of self-practice, this is the perfect follow-up to continue developing your skills. Please check with our teachers if you’re ready.
*If you have done an allround ceramics course, you can not yet participate in an intermediate wheel throwing course. You have to follow at least 2 beginner wheel throwing courses first, or ask your teacher if they think you’re ready.
MASTERCLASSES
Masterclasses are suitable for people with a strong basis and experience in ceramics. These custom classes are focused on developing unique skills, taught by experts in the world of ceramics.
TASTER CLASSES
Our most popular workshop! Learn the basics of pottery in only a few hours.
Level: Beginner
Duration: 3,5 h.
The quickest way to get your hands dirty! Get a taste of working with clay by creating your own ceramics in this one day taster class. Just for a fun day, or to get a better picture of doing a full ceramics course at Pansa.
The class group will be split up in 2. You will learn 2 techniques, taught by different teachers. Halfway through the workshop you will change to the other teacher and technique.
In the handbuilding session, you will create a mug (or anything it might become), which will be glazed and fired for you.
In the wheelthrowing session, you will learn how to centre and pull up your first shapes on the potters’ wheel. You won't be keeping anything from these first attempts, but you will have a great taste for a future course.
At the end of the workshop you can choose your glaze for your handbuilt piece. It will be glazed and fired by us, and ready for you to pick up after about 3 weeks.
MULTI-WEEK COURSES
Pottery is a slow, grounding process, that takes patience and regular practice.
Whether you're new to ceramics or looking to return and refine your skills, our multi-week courses offer a step-by-step learning process, structure and inspiration.
Each course introduces essential techniques while leaving room for personal exploration. You'll gradually develop confidence and creativity through hands-on practice. Over several weeks, you will get familiar with different concepts, and learn to find your own way with clay.
What do you want to learn? Take place behind the wheel in our wheel throwing courses, learn all about irregular shapes and building larger works in our handbuilding courses, or combine the two and go all-round!
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Level: Beginner, Intermediate
Duration: 8-10 weeks
Focus, technique, steady hands. If it’s all about the wheel for you, look no further than our throwing courses.
Start or continue your journey in pottery with the basics of wedging, centering, pulling up, shaping and trimming. Soon enough, you will be able to throw your first pieces! At the end of the course you will also learn how to glaze your work, which we will then fire for you. You get to keep the pieces you create. The main focus in a course, however, is on technique, process and practice.
Keep in mind that this course is fully focused on wheel throwing. If you prefer a more diverse skillset, consider an All-Round course.
You will progress quickly by reflecting on your process with your teacher, and through feedback from your fellow students. Wheel throwing takes patience though! Even the best of us need to keep practicing to get better.
After this course, if you feel confident and motivated to continue creating by yourself, you can sign up for a membership at Pansa. You might already be able to start with this during the course. Just ask us how! Many of our former students became makers and now use the studio as full time members.
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Level: Beginner, Intermediate
Duration: 4 weeks
As hands-on as it gets: the time tested essence of handmade ceramics!
Build a repertoire of techniques to make smooth and aesthetically appealing shapes, or sculpt and go freeform with confidence. Your imagination is the only limit. We love handbuilding and we think it is the best way to get intensely familiar with our core material, clay.
In the beginner courses, you will learn a variety of handbuilding techniques. This will allow you to start your own project and create your very first ceramic pieces. After a final glazing class and high temperature firing in our kilns, they are yours to keep forever.
In the intermediate courses, you will continue on your handbuilding knowledge. After a refresher of the basic techniques, you will move on to more complex shapes. For example, shapes with holes in the centre, or larger shapes with inside support. We will guide you along, every step of the way.
After this course, if you feel confident and motivated to continue creating by yourself, you can sign up for a membership at Pansa. You might already be able to start with this during the course. Just ask us how! Many of our former students became makers and now use the studio as full time members.
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Level: Beginner, Intermediate
Duration: 8-12 weeks
If you want to develop a broad palette of skills, this is the course for you.
All-Round combines the essentials of throwing on the wheel with the variety and flexibility of handbuilding. If you only want to focus on wheel throwing, a wheel throwing course might be more suitable, but otherwise we recommend All-Round to anyone that’s just starting out. Many handbuilding techniques come back in throwing as well.
In 8-12 weeks, we will help you become a multi-skilled ceramist, starting with a wide range of handbuilding techniques. From class 3 onwards, you will start incorporating the basics of throwing on the wheel. The last session will be a glazing class.
The main focus in a course is on technique, process and practice, but at the end of the course you will have your first pieces to take home and cherish forever.
If after this course, you feel confident and motivated to continue creating by yourself, you can sign up for a membership at Pansa. You might already be able to start with this during the course. Just ask us how! Many of our former students became makers and now use the studio as full time members.
Classes within courses take place once a week, on the same day and time. A single class in the course takes about 2,5 to 3 hours.
Before booking your course, please make sure that you can attend all dates. Classes that are missed (for any reason) can’t be rescheduled or refunded. You can read more in our full cancellation policy.
We announce our courses at the start of each new month and spots often fill up quickly! Sign up for our newsletter to never miss registration day again!
INTENSIVE COURSES
Intensive Courses compress a lot of learning into 1 week. Ideal for having a ‘ceramics vacation’, or if weekly lessons are not an option for you.
Enjoy 4 lessons in the same week, and 1 glazing day in the week following it. 5 course days in total.
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Level: Beginner
Duration: 5 days
Join our beautiful 1 week allround course!
We've been able to put the content of our 8-week all-round course - plus some extras - into a single week. It's a great way to learn to work with ceramics quickly without the commitment of a weekly time slot.
One of our previous students of this course stated:
"I've learned more than a normal weekly course, because of the focus you keep in this week"This course covers all aspects of pottery, both by hand and the basics on the wheel. Learn all the basics and techniques needed to start your own work, learn to improve, and make your own pottery. You will process multiple pieces and finish them in the kiln, learning along the way with expert guidance.
A maximum of 6 pieces can be fired and glazed during this course. The main focus in a course is on techniques, the process and practicing. If you wish to make more, please consider a membership during or after this course.
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Level: Beginner
Duration: 5 days
Join our beautiful 1 week intensive throwing class!
We've been able to put the content of our 8-week beginners wheel throwing course - plus some extras - into a single week. It's a great way to learn to work with ceramics quickly without the commitment of a weekly time slot.
One of our previous students of this course stated:
"I've learned more than a normal course, because of the focus you keep in this week"This course covers wheel throwing intensively. Learn all the basics and techniques needed to start your own work, learn to improve, and make your own pottery. You will process multiple pieces and finish them in the kiln, learning along the way with expert guidance.
A maximum of 6 pieces can be fired and glazed during this course. The main focus in a course is on techniques, the process and practicing. If you wish to make more, please consider a membership during or after this course.
Before booking your pottery course, please make sure that you can attend all dates. Classes that are missed (for any reason) can not be rescheduled or refunded. You can read more in our full cancellation policy.
We announce our courses at the start of each new month and spots often fill up quickly! Sign up for our newsletter to never miss registration day again!
WORKSHOPS
There’s a lot to be learned in one day!
These are generally not for total beginners. If you’re new to ceramics, first check our Taster Classes.
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Level: Any
Do you want to learn to glaze, or get better at glazing? Would you like your pieces to come out of the kiln prettier and more interesting? Then join our glazing workshop! We will teach you the proper techniques, how to avoid beginner mistakes and how to approach the materials.
We will mainly focus on glazing your bisque fired objects, but also dive into some different specialized techniques.
For example:
• Decorative techniques on bisqueware: using underglaze, and using oxides on top of your glaze.
• Engobes on greenware; adding colored slip to your not yet fired ceramic piece and using carving methods to create patterns or illustrations.
• Using stains to mix color into your clay, slip or glaze.
For this workshop it is best if you have bisqueware or leather-hard work in progress.
We recommend working with Pansa’s in-house clay, glazes, oxides and engobes. You are allowed to bring in your own bisqueware, pre-mixed glazes, slips or stains, but please get in touch with us before the class if this is the case, to check if these are ok to use.
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*Coming soon! This workshop isn’t available to book just yet*
Level: Any
With the help of plaster moulds, you can identically reproduce a shape to create a series of objects, or create unique individual forms that can only be accomplished with a slip casting technique. Mould making opens up many new avenues in your creative process.In this 2-part workshop you will learn to make a one part plaster mould of a simple shape and how to cast using slip.
This course can also be interesting for those of you who want to expand on their ceramic practice using other techniques than handbuilding and wheel throwing, and is a great way to get to know the basics of working with plaster.
PRIVATE GROUP CLASSES
Group pottery workshops are a lot of fun, and are a great way to connect with each other. The messy challenge of working with clay is especially well suited for this.
Our group workshops are based on our successful Taster Class concept. In a few hours you will learn to make something usable from clay, that will get glazed and fired
into a functional ceramic object. There is no need to have any prior knowledge about clay or ceramics.
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Group size: up to 8 people
Time: 2 hours (depending on techniques taught)
Earliest availability: in 2-3 weeks from requestPrice: €595,- (Incl. VAT/BTW)
- Handbuilding private workshop
A 2 hour workshop that focuses on hand building (creating something out of clay with your hands as your main tools).
Incl. clay and use of materials + we glaze and fire one piece of work per person if you want to keep something.
- Wheel throwing private workshop
This is a workshop that focuses on wheel throwing. Be aware that the wheel normally takes at least 3 to 4 lessons to master, so this is just an introduction (but still fun!).
Incl. clay and use of materials + we glaze and fire one piece of work per person if you want to keep something.
Price: €650,- (Incl. VAT/BTW)
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Group size: 10 to 16 people
Time: 3,5 hours (depending on techniques taught)
Earliest availability: in 2-3 weeks from request- Pansa experience private workshop
A 3,5 hour workshop that focuses on hand building + an introduction to the wheel.
During this class the group will be split in two. You'll be making a mug or personal object by using hand building techniques and you will have a go on the pottery wheel.
Halfway through the workshop you change to the other teacher and focus on a new technique.
In the handbuilding session, you will be making one item that will be glazed and fired for you. On the potters' wheel you will learn how to centre and pull up your first shapes. You won't be keeping anything from these first attempts on the wheel, but you will have a great taste for a future course. At the end of the workshop you can choose your glaze for your hand-built piece. It will be glazed and fired by us, and ready for you to pick up after about 4-6 weeks.
Price: €850,- (Incl. VAT/BTW) for 10 people. For every extra participant it's €85,- (Incl. VAT/BTW)
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Pansa custom workshop
We can create a special package based on your desires and group size. Let us know what you would like to organise, and we will create a package tailored specifically to you.Group size: up to 40 people and/or custom groups
Time: 3,5 hours or to be determined (depending on techniques taught and size of the group)
Earliest availability: in 1 month or later