This week I moved into my apartment on campus, met with the rest of the museum staff for this summer, and began to research by delving into Chuzo Tamotsu’s life story. I primarily focused on online resources and the information the Bowdoin Museum of Art has stored with the children’s paintings as those are the only resources at my fingertips here in Maine. I pieced together a pretty comprehensive biography of Tamotsu’s life, began searching online for the now grown American child artists, and started in on IRB training so I can work with human subjects later this summer. All in all things are getting rolling, and more and more of the research is coming together!