The Living Arts Village by Artisans Angkor

This guide to The Living Arts Village by Artisans Angkor in Siem Reap traces the craft school back to 1992, when French diplomats and aid workers set out to save silk weaving, stone carving, lacquer and gilding skills that had nearly died with the artisans the Khmer Rouge killed. It follows the school's slow growth from twenty free apprentices into workshops scattered across a dozen villages, and the construction that broke ground on this same patch of ground in February 2026. The old workshops keep running around the site, saws and looms going, while the new building rises to meet them.