World Education is the parent organization and fiscal sponsor of Cambodian Living Arts, providing CLA with administrative and financial infrastructure and support, as well as with expertise, guidance, and invaluable in-kind support.

World Education is dedicated to improving the lives of the poor through economic and social development programs. World Education is well known for its work around the globe in environmental education, community development, maternal and child health, school governance, integrated literacy, small enterprise development, HIV/AIDS education and prevention and care, and refugee training. World Education also works to strengthen literacy and adult basic education programs in the United States. Projects are designed to contribute to individual growth, as well as to community and national development.

Amrita Performing Arts is an international performing arts production company that works to promote and sustain the revival and preservation of all forms of traditional Cambodian performing arts, emphasizing national capacity building in production management and administration.

Amrita collaborates with the artists of the Cambodian Ministry of Culture and freelance artists in researching and producing professionally staged performances both in Cambodia and abroad, while developing artists' expressive potential through workshops, curriculum- building initiatives, regional exchange programs, and international tours.

Artisans d'Angkor is centered around the social, economic and professional advancement of artisans, and around promoting quality handicrafts with a strong Khmer identity. It is intended to provide a sustainable and fair development for arts and crafts in Siem Reap province, offering young artisans a job on-site or in its rural workshops in Siem Reap surroundings. It gives artisans fulfilling and stable working conditions and provides them with a vocation, so that they can express their talents and continue to develop their skills. Artisans d'Angkor has renewed interest in the authenticity and value of the strong Khmer cultural identity and stands for upmarket workmanship creativity, a showcase for traditional Cambodian savoir-faire.

The Audiovisual Resource Center has adopted several missions: 1) collection of the images and sounds of the Cambodian memory and making them available to a wide public and 2) training Cambodians in the audiovisual professions by welcoming foreign film productions and 3) by developing its own artistic projects. The first pole of our activity consists of protecting the national audiovisual heritage, and was initiated in 2005, while the two other poles of our activity are now being set up, with financing and partnerships now being sought.

The Center for Khmer Studies' mission is to promote research, teaching, and public service in the social sciences, arts, and humanities, as they relate to Cambodia.

CKS is the sole member institution of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) in Southeast Asia. Its programs are administered from its headquarters in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh. It also maintains an administrative office in New York and a support office in Paris, Les Amis du Centre d'Etudes Khmeres.

Epic Arts is an arts education charity established in 2001. Epic Arts promotes inclusion, social integration and community regeneration through the transformative power of creativity. Epic Arts aims to increase access to the arts and arts education, to enable people to develop new skills, to encourage self-expression and build self-confidence via the arts, to foster understanding and integration between people of various life experiences, abilities and disabilities, ages and ethnicities.

In September 2000, Dana Langlois, an American photographer, opened Java Café & Gallery in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Out of her love for art and desire to promote it in Cambodia she made the café space available for local and international artists and art events. Since then it has been a non-profit gallery (supported by the café) and has hosted over 40 exhibitions!

The main objective of Java Arts is to promote exchange and communication amongst Cambodian-based artists and with international artists, develop creative projects, promote art-awareness, use publicity tools to promote artists and their art and maintain artist-orientated projects.

John McDermott has been photographing Southeast Asia since the early 1990s. Most recently McDermott has focused on fine art photography of the Angkorean temples of Cambodia to create an in-depth study of the complex in its period of rapid transition. His work has been exhibited internationally and published internationally, including appearances in The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, Time, Newsweek, among other publications. His work can also be seen at the McDermott Gallery in Siem Reap.

The Khmer Arts Academy is a public benefit organization dedicated to fostering the vitality of Cambodian arts and culture and to expanding the role arts and culture play in the development and well being of young people and of society as a whole. Through its numerous activities, the Academy seeks to create a continuum of recruitment, training, outreach, creation and performance that develops accomplished artists and diverse, informed audiences.

In 1994, Phare Ponleu Selpak (Ponleu=light; selpak=art) was founded by eight young adults who were brought together by a drawing studio in the Site 2 refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodia border. The eight young adults, once they had left the refugee camps, formed Phare Ponleu Selpak, an association to promote Khmer culture and help young Cambodian refugees to surmount, through artistic expression, the trauma of war.

Over time, Phare has diversified its activities. In addition to drawing, Phare teaches music, circus arts, animation, and numerous other activities. In 2002, in collaboration with the Ministry of Social Affairs and UNICEF, Phare opened a children’s home for young victims of human trafficking, children orphaned by AIDS, and other at risk and vulnerable children. In 2003, in partnership with the Ministry of Education, Phare opened a public primary and secondary school. Currently, Phare is constructing a high school, which is expected to open in the fall of 2006.

Stephane Janin was born in France in 1968. He has a masters in Cinema and Audiovisual Studies and started photographing Cambodia in 1990. He has visited Cambodia during all of the 1990s and early 2000's.
He has been living in Cambodia since 2004.

In October 2005, Stephane Janin opened Popil PhotoGallery, the first gallery exclusively dedicated to photography in the main city of Cambodia.

Reyum is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation dedicated to Cambodian arts and culture. Reyum was founded by Ly Daravuth and Ingrid Muan in December 1998 in order to provide a forum for research, preservation, and promotion of traditional and contemporary Cambodian arts and culture. Through exhibitions, events, and publications, Reyum aims to stimulate an exchange of ideas, while fostering creative expressions and encouraging further research. All activities presented by Reyum are free and open to the public.

Saklapel is a collective of contemporary visual artists working in Cambodia. Artists involved in Saklapel organized the Visual Arts Open in December 2005 as the occasion for Cambodia's contemporary visual artists to face the public nationally and internationally. They are also involved in numerous other projects which help to strengthen contemporary arts expression in a country known mostly for its traditional arts.

Sovanna Phum (which means Golden Era) is an independent Khmer art association in Phnom Penh specializing in shadow puppetry. It has performances every Friday & Saturday at 7:30 pm at its theatre as well as on-going exhibitions, a daily-operating puppet workshop, and a puppet gallery.