SAM presents American Art: The Stories We Carry, a transformation of its American art galleries, created through an unprecedented collaboration among SAM curators and staff, artists, and advisors from the Seattle community. Funded primarily by a $1 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the project features work from SAMâs collection and new works and curation by contemporary artists, and it deepens the museumâs commitment to inclusive exhibition-planning practices with a shared-authorship model that reflects and responds to community knowledge.