There has been dramatic growth in interest and research regarding organic photochromism in recent decades. Despite this, the topic is seldom addressed in the undergraduate chemistry curriculum. Herein, we present a straightforward and robust experiment for the second semester organic chemistry laboratory curriculum which combines multistep synthesis, photochromism, and optical characterization. Over the course of a three-step synthesis, students prepare both the open and closed isomers of a Donor-acceptor Stenhouse adduct. At each stage of the synthesis, the pure products are isolated by filtration and characterized by traditional means (FTIR, [superscript 1]H NMR). Additionally, students collect UV-vis data on the photoisomerization process and use this to calculate kinetic parameters. An inquiry-based variant of the experiment is also presented.