Cambodian Living Arts

The mission of Cambodian Living Arts is to facilitate the social, cultural and healing transformation of Cambodia through the arts. The non-profit builds the capacity of artists and the arts community by promoting awareness of the arts, and by advocating for the arts with cultural policymakers and major institutions. For the first ten years the international NGO was run by passionate volunteers, and in 2008 Fresh Sound funded a three-year grant for a strategic planning consultant and the transition dollars needed to attract a high-level arts executive from the private sector to become the organization’s first executive director. Within two years of these grants, Cambodian Living Arts had attracted major foundations, including the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, to position a major arts festival of leading Cambodian artists and cultural workers in New York at the city’s leading cultural institutions.

cambodianlivingarts.org

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