Eileen's Studio

Eileen’s Studio is Cambodia’s pottery painting studio that customers can paint their own pottery. The first goal in mind was to help adults and children to be creative and to be confident in their artistic capabilities through experience of making their own pottery. At Eileen’s Ceramic Painting, people can learn about color, imagination and creativity by experimenting with new materials that were not yet introduced in Cambodia. By creating your own pottery, you can design whatever you want to try. Also, you can learn different skills that are instructed by professional teachers. You pick one from your choice of variety shapes plain pottery, then paint it with your choice of color. It takes within 10 days to fire and return your items. If you want to purchase ceramic items made by professionals, you can immediately buy designed and painted ceramic items using a wide range of selection of different colored glazes on the spot. Since Eileen’s Studio uses non-toxic glazes, customers can use painted pottery on a daily basis.

No. 40B, St. 310, 12302 Phnom Penh

012 267 784

Funkyjunk

Funky Junk is an innovative social enterprise making art works with re-usable plastic bag. Funky Junk has a partnership with the community development NGO Bridges Across Borders Southeast Asia. A group of people whose first goal in mind was settled right after they saw the problem of poor education about environmental awareness, lack of incentives from the local government, and a rapidly expanding population have resulted in plastic bag waste covering more and more of the countryside in Cambodia. Using lots of cheap and non-biodegradable plastic bags can cause severe diseases, even death or other health hazards to humans. The group started looking for a solution about this problem. Finally, they decided to make products out of discarded plastic bags which can contribute to save environment and fair job opportunities for local workers. They divided the jobs into several steps in order to make the work more efficient. First, a group of rubbish pickers from the towns and countryside picked up plastic bags. Second, in Funky Junk center, other group of people wash, disinfect and dry the plastic bags. Third, sort cleaned plastic bags by colors. This process is important to allow them to offer items that are colorful and unique. Lastly, they make it into lots of different kinds of products. Those products are baskets, hats, bags, cushion and etc. These products are only available on retailers that are authorized. Buying Funky Junk products contributes both cleaner environment, fair trade income, training and community benefits for Cambodia’s local producers. Their goal for the future is to advertise Funky Junk more, and to let the people realize that plastic bags can be reusable and use it as a beautiful art decoration.

http://www.funkyjunkrecycled.com/index.html

DOIDO

DOIDO was opened by Ms. Cho Hyunmin, one of the KOTRA member who has started her business after an intensive incubation period at KOTRA. DOIDO supports disabled people in Cambodia by giving job opportunities and learning skills of creating leather art. The goal of this social enterprise is to improve the standard living of people with disabilities by training, employing and to introduce leather handicrafts in Cambodia. This shop is selling products that are made of pig and cow leathers in which it isn't a common style of art in Cambodia since it requires skills in order to produce one product. They produce quality leather products such as wallets, bags, key holders, etc. She has offered a variety of skills to those Cambodians not only leather techniques but also by associating with other organizations. In DOIDO, you can also make your own leather products through several steps of learning course. By doing so, you will be able to produce the products of your choice and taste. The owner of this shop is looking forward to spread the shop to a lot of people and provide opportunities to people on how to handle leather. “Do I? I do!”

https://www.facebook.com/kotrapnh/posts/878934532181989

# 24E, Street 29, Khan Chamkarmon, Sangkat Tonle Bassac, Phnom Penh

Yamada Art School

Yamada Art school is opened by Takakazu Yamada in Phnom Penh. Takakazu Yamada is a Japanese painter who likes to sketch natures of the world. Until now lots of students have came through the doors of his Boeung Trabek studio. Takakazu Yamada first came to Cambodia on year 2000 to sketch the view of Cambodia. After that, he was inspired by the artistic passion of Cambodia which allows him to stay in Cambodia. Then, he decided to open the Yamada school of art so that the people in Cambodia can have a proper education about art starting from the basics. Yamada school of art is for basic learning of all categories of fine art including design, painting, sculpture and architecture. They also provide lessons for kids arts. The courses they are providing are in different range of varieties which enables the students to start from the basic throughout masteral. Yamada believes learning basic skills are very important and the most hard thing in art since all the professional arts are based on basic skills. They believe these basic learnings of art is necessary for high quality Cambodian art. Yamada Art School contains skillful Cambodian teachers who are taught by Yamada. According to Ricardo Casal, one of teacher, Yamada is providing young artists with an education that is sorely lacking at the country’s top art institutions. Because of these reasons, lots of international and local students are visiting to this art school.

https://www.facebook.com/yamadaschoolofart/

No.BB11, St.101, Sangkat Boeung Trabeak, Khan Chamkarmorn, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

012223160

La Clef de Sol

La Clef de Sol is the first Phnom Penh concept store presenting new designers. For example, kids clothes from MONIE&MARIE, woman fashion from Papperlapapp, funky bags from ILOVEDADA, bags and accessories from VERRY BERRY, aromatherapy products from KRU KHMER post cards from AYAKOGRAPHY and home decors from La Clef de Sol. They are life arts that the owner Yoshie find it beautiful to have it in daily life. Products are simple with the taste of Yoshie. She focuses on the feeling of the textile, shape and design. Products are all handmade done by Cambodians. All the materials that are used in the products are coming from local supply with the used of sewing technique. When Yoshie first came to Cambodia, she was not able to find something “beautiful” which made her to open this concept store. Yoshie didn’t set her future goal yet, but she will continue to introduce beautiful and interesting arts to different people. You can enjoy shopping variety styles of clothing and decor from this shop while drinking and relaxing at the cafe beside Café Le Point.

https://www.facebook.com/laclefdesol.pp/info/

No.10,St.208 Khan Daun Penh, Phnom Pen, Cambodia, La Clef de Sol

092 194 468

Friends

The Friends International is NGO to ensure that all children and youth are secure from all the risks and abuse and supports children to get a proper education. They also help young people to find employment so they will be able to support their own children. Friends-International focuses on four main priorities: To reach the highest social return and impact through its Friends Programs, the CYTI Alliance and the ChildSafe network. To provide the best quality services to our client by building best practice models in all Friends Programs and throughout the CYTI Alliance. To replicate successful models in line with local realities through the CYTI Alliance. To ensure the sustainability of our programs in terms of structure, policy development, behavior change and financially through the Friends Social Business Program. To maximize the impact on how to solve these problems, Friends approached to social enterprises by mixing good training social work with successful social business models. These social enterprises includes Friends n Stuff and Friends Restaurant. Products in Friends n Stuff are made by students who belongs to Friends International. Also, the restaurant is full of yellow and blue t-shirt trainers and teachers who also belongs to Friends International. You may see lots of beautiful paintings alongside the wall in Friends Restaurant. They are all painted and drawn by young students in Friends. Their artworks are full of hope and a sight to view their wide futures.

http://friends-international.org/index.asp

House 89B, Street 103

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

(+855) 23 986 601