Research in visual arts, according to Winters (2015), is an unusual situation in that artists must offer details about how their artistic process represents a methodology, what its research methods are, and why this is an appropriate, reliable, and valid procedure. In this reflective article the authors chronicle working together from fall 2017 through spring of 2020 to discover what Rita Irwin (2013) delineated as "becoming a/r/tography." They delineate how undergraduate research as a high-impact practice affected the research experience of an art and design undergraduate, and how a/r/tography as a research methodology influenced their research projects during this three-year period.