TxHSA invites recognized artists to discuss placing their works and memorabilia to be professionally archived through the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University – San Marcos. This internationally known repository includes the Southwestern Writers Collection, which among its diverse holdings embraces a rich variety of Texas music—from country and western swing to blues, rock-and-roll, conjunto, and Tejano. The archives are made available to students and scholars. They ensure that future generations are not only made aware of their region’s creative heritage, but have a source to research it.  Founded by Bill and Sally Wittliff in 1986, the Wittliff Collections has become a distinguished and steadily growing archive charged with preserving and providing access to the papers and artifacts of the Southwest’s principal writers, filmmakers and musicians, and to the renowned photographers of the Southwest and Mexico.