The Society for the Preservation of American Modernists (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 continue to be provocative as we make our way through yet another fast-changing century.

SPAM takes lessons from the modernists in its newest venture, the Five Elements Project. The Five Elements Project engages in contemporary issues, as the modernists did; focuses on the relationship between nature and civilization, as they did; supports artists directly, as many of them advocated for; and elevates the Idea to a central place in the project's mission, as they analagously elevated the Concept to a place of prominence in modernist art. See our Five Elements Project website 5elementsproject.org for more.