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Sol Treasures is an Art and Cultural Enrichment Center in King City, celebrating art in communities from Soledad to Bradley along the fifty mile corridor that encompasses the majority of rural South Monterey County. Twelve years ago when the arts faded from school curriculums, Sol Treasures formed to champion the arts in South Monterey. Today, Sol Treasures stands as a beacon of creativity on the main street of Broadway in King City. It is a full-time, comprehensive art center serving South Monterey County, offering performing and visual art programs. Sol Treasures provides art enrichment and performance activities, which connect and engage members of the community and add to the vibrancy and aesthetics of the town and surrounding areas.

Sol Treasures was founded by three artists, Sonia Chapa, Barbara Pekema, and Bruce Graham. They called the young art center, Sol Treasures. Art is a gift from the artist and a TREASURE for the patron…and SOL is the brilliance of the sun. It also sounds like S-O-U-L, SOUL, the spiritual part of the self that creates and appreciates art. And so…SOL TREASURES.

Sol Treasures began as a place for artists to call home and quickly expanded beyond a gallery to providing programs throughout the community in the visual, music, and performing arts. Sol Treasures continues to fill an important niche of providing art in the schools and the community. Its after-school programs provide positive choices for students, lessening the likelihood for students to become involved in negative life choices. Sol Treasures art programs serve 300 individuals weekly through fourteen programs, including Children’s Musical Theatre, SOL-O Youth Strings Orchestra, and art enrichment classes. Sol Treasures provides art enrichment in four school districts and four CHISPA sites.

Sol Treasures was launched through early sponsorship from the South Monterey County Center for the Performing Arts and a start-up grant from the Arts Council for Monterey County. Sol Treasures soon formed funding partnerships with the Community Foundation for Monterey County, Harden Foundation, Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation, and Star Foundation of Monterey County. It continued to garner support from the Chevron Corporation, Gannett Foundation, Lightning in a Bottle Art and Music Festival, MOCA Foundation, Pebble Beach Company Foundation, Rita and Luis Echenique Charitable Fund, Yellow Brick Road Benefit Fund, the Rotary Club of King City, and the generosity of individual supporters in the community. Sol Treasures celebrates its awards and accolades with the community. Sol Treasures is the 2018 Champion of the Arts for a Non Profit Organization. The organization has also been the recent 2015 King City Business of the Year though the Chamber of Commerce, 2016 and 2020 Non-Profit Alliance for Monterey County exemplary nonprofit in Arts and Culture, and winner of the King City Beautification Award for its drought tolerant and artistic landscaping. Sol Treasures is distinguished to have the Platinum Level of transparency through Guidestar.

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