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.

Here you will find:

• A Research Guide to finding and using Latino arts primary sources
• Toward the Preservation of a Heritage: Latin American and Latino Art in the Midwestern United States. An interactive publication on the history of Latin American and Latino arts in the Midwestern United States during the 20th century. Includes a selected bibliography and exhibition lists. A foundational resource for students, scholars, and curators, it also stands as a collection development tool for librarians and archivists.
• On-line oral history interviews with Latino artists and arts leaders
• A collection development resource that provides a history of Latino artists, arts organizations, and exhibitions in the Midwest throughout the 20th Century