And here we are at a new adventure, at a new way of telling about women, of being protagonists in their world dedicated to ceramics, in an authentic and singular way. The goal is to celebrate those women who, in an age where gender equality is often still far off, can feel comfortable telling about themselves, no longer with conventional news of their work, their ideas and their common passion, but by traveling through the world of ceramics in an absolute way, feeling like mothers of the Earth. That clay earth, the origin of our creations, the force on which each of us draws to renew ourselves, to be reborn and to be fertile and vital in the creativity of our works that represent us. Pandora's experience that expands, radiates in many places and workshops, promotes women who get involved without problems, without obligations except the need to be there, to be part of something that exists thanks to each of them. This chorality makes them fulfilled because it unites them to a common purpose. I do not know whether it is the desire to emerge as artists through exhibitions that makes them visible to more people or the desire to meet like-minded souls that moves this big family that is Pandora and being a woman!
The ancient art of pottery is the multi-voiced field of study, research and experimentation of the "Pandora" association. Equal and different, the women of the world in the face of "forms, symbols and colors ..." The contemporary condition of women, reflected particularly in the profession of ceramics, has been the driving force behind the "Women's Ceramics Project," which the association has always supported for a new collective imagination that starts from women and their social role without opposition to men but for a renewed and emancipated sociality.
The Pandora Artiste Ceramiste Association was founded in 2013 in Cava de' Tirreni, an ancient city of ceramic tradition, with the desire to promote the action of women in the artistic field, with the intention of offering support and redemption possibilities to those who are in conditions of hardship.
Over the years, the association has provided answers to a need for artistic representativeness declined and thought of as feminine, using the tool of ceramic know-how as an attractor and element of growth, as a source of social aggregation directed toward a new rediscovery of the self.
Ample space has been given to the transmission of knowledge through teaching curated by national and international master ceramists who have taken it upon themselves to introduce newcomers to the art of ceramics. Among these figures, some are among the most important ceramists internationally.
The response offered by the Pandora Association to a need for artistic representativeness declined and thought of as feminine is represented as a culminating moment by the "Matres - International Festival of Ceramics for Women" born in 2018 and this year to a new beautiful III edition dedicated to nature, to green ecology, which the association has been pursuing as an awareness for some years now. Ceramics here becomes the technical and expressive medium for an innovative creative research guided by a feminine gaze, sensitive to the preservation of the earth, an opportunity to manifest the aptitude of women to express values, projects, personalities and paths linked yes to contemporaneity, in art, culture and ceramic craftsmanship; but the purpose is also to be able to interpret and raise awareness of the most on the important issue of the ecological emergency, which requires as a priority the care of the Planet, since pollution affects the ecosystem and our health. The festival will be a special edition that through the beauty of ceramic art can shake human consciences also in the use of clay to reduce waste and pollution caused by bad habits and inability to recycle. A Festival that will tell about art and social responsibility. Pandora has over the years given rise to concrete territorial redevelopment operations, attentive to the link between associations, institutions and local business, with tangible spin-offs also in terms of tourism and economy, whose distinctive feature has always been the project of women for a different vision of society. 
Pandora Association directs its activities toward the promotion and dissemination of ceramic art, activating collaborations with public and private entities, Confederations, Schools, Universities, Foundations, both nationally and internationally. This magazine is just the beginning of a new all-female path to draw from and disseminate, a collective reservoir of emotions that is universal and all to be read and applied!