The Sonoma Plein Air Foundation (SPAF) was created—and is managed—by a volunteer board of community leaders to ensure that students in Sonoma have access to visual arts education. SPAF sponsors the annual Sonoma Plein Air Festival, a weeklong celebration of outdoor painting. Since its inception in 2002, SPAF has distributed over $1,000,000 for school art programs and projects and sponsored: art-at-Lunch programs, large-scale school murals, visiting artist programs, poetry in the school program, painting and drawing workshops, and art supplies.