An important part of my arts-based doctoral research is to partner & compliment making research with more conventional academic written research. I am very fortunate to have Maria Elena Buszek (Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Colorado Denver Department of Visual Arts) agree to provide my literature review question portion of my comprehensive exams. Currently I am working on completing the object based portion of this literature review, for which I have chosen to answer in the form of a quilt. What follows is a documentation of my progress to date.