Views of Preah Vihear: A Student Art Exhibition from Phare Visual & Applied Arts School
Khmer culture is an essential source of inspiration for art students at Phare Ponleu Selpak. The architecture inherited from their ancestors is present throughout Cambodia, and is often found in temples and places of religious worship. A Special School Trip to...
Meet Karona, the First Recipient of the Srey Bandaul Art Development Fund
Karona is a 19 year old young man from the Siem Reap countryside. He is a student at the Phare Visual and Applied Arts School and the first recipient of a visual arts scholarship from the Srey Bandaul Art Development Fund. “The things I enjoy the most about Phare...
Tribute to Lokru Bandaul wrote by Kunthary, a supporter of Cambodian Arts
« I am a Cambodian national living in the U.S. since 1979, when I moved to Washington DC and joined the World Bank to work on development globally and more specifically to contribute to the socio-economic development of my homeland. Since I retired in 2013, I have...
Schools closed: Phare tries to keep the students, teachers, parents engaged
This June 2021, the Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport announced that all schools will remain closed and children will continue learning through online classes due to the pandemic. For rural and less privileged communities in Battambang, it still means a...
Phare’s little artists joined the UNESCO online exhibition
COVID-19 brought the world to a temporary halt with many communities around the globe in lockdown, and millions of children being confined at home. This new situation presented novel challenges for their parents and guardians not yet familiar with home schooling....
Phare Artists’ Creativity Has Been Flourishing During COVID-19 Confinement
These past weeks, our big Phare family has been counting on everyone’s solidarity, firmly believing that we will come out of this COVID-19 pandemic stronger. Home confinement has provided Phare artists with time to reflect on this huge wave affecting us all and adapt...