Welcome to MidLAD, the Midwest Latino Arts Documentary Heritage Project, an ongoing, multi-year initiative to locate and preserve primary sources critical to the study of the history of Latino arts and to the understanding of its contribution to American culture and to our communities.

MidLAD is an interactive resource on Latino arts in the Midwestern United States for students, scholars, artists, curators, arts administrators, librarians, and archivists. We seek to build a foundational resource on this topic by sharing our research and encouraging community input to expand our research tools to add important information on artists, arts organizations, and exhibitions that we have not encountered to-date.

Scholars, Students, and Curators will find:

• A Research Guide to finding and using Latino arts primary sources
• A chronological overview of Latino arts in the Midwest during the 20th century with a selected bibliography and exhibition lists: Toward the Preservation of a Heritage: Latino Art in the Midwestern United States
• On-line oral history interviews with Latino artists and arts leaders
• A directory to primary source collections on Latino arts in the Midwest

Artists and Arts Organizations will find:

• Information on preservation and management of your files and papers (forthcoming)
• A directory to libraries and archives that collect Latino arts materials
• A guide to donating your personal or family papers (forthcoming)
• An opportunity to become a MidLAD participant by listing your papers

Librarians and Archivists will find:

• An opportunity to participate in MidLAD by contributing your collecting policy & collections summary so that potential donors may learn more about your repository
• A collection development resource that provides a history of Latino artists, arts organizations, and exhibitions in the Midwest throughout the 20th Century
• A directory to primary sources with field survey results to assist researchers in locating collections as well as librarians and archivists interested in collecting for their institutions