SPAM celebrates and elucidates the art, lives and ideas of the American modernists. The early 20th century modernists, such as painters Arthur Dove and Georgia O'Keeffe, photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, and dancers Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham, reinvented vision to fit a strange new century. Their interpretations of a bewildering world are provocative as we enter yet another fast-changing century.

SPAM sponsors research, information-sharing, exhibitions and publications. We are also concerned with the history of private and public support for the arts in the United States—from the WPA to the NEA.