Our mission is to provide a place for artists to make, meet, sell, and find joy in downtown Spruce Pine, NC.

We provide affordable private studios and a flexible public space for events, exhibitions, workshops, and gatherings. With these goals, we are raising funds to strengthen the reality of this vision. 

Treats Studios began in 2019 as a group of artists seeking to share space and create community. In 2021, we had the incredible fortune to buy the historic building where we had already established our studio in the heart of Spruce Pine. Since then, we’ve renovated the third floor to accommodate 8-10 additional artists. We are committed to offering affordable studio spaces, and we are excited to offer a subsidized space for emerging artists as well as a visiting artist program.

The spacious ground floor of Treats Studios will be a gallery, arts event space, and community center. With an entrance right on Oak Avenue, this floor will be the public face of Treats; it will be a place for artists to come together, including a shared kitchen and multi-use gathering site. In this space, we will welcome a growing community to meet with Treats artists, teach and learn in workshops, show work, attend parties, or just stop by. This will be a place for all of us to mingle, collaborate, and forge stronger bonds.

We are thrilled to have this opportunity to grow, and we need your help! Your donation will provide truly affordable studios for more makers. You will be creating a social hub for the arts which you yourself can be a part of, and you will be supporting one of the few artist-owned, artist-operated spaces of its kind in our area. Your support will have a lasting impact on our arts community. Thank you so much for contributing to the vibrant life of Treats Studios!