Thanks in part to the CLACLS Summer 2015 Travel Fellowship I was able to conduct research in Rio de Janeiro Brazil for my dissertation on Brazilian women’s performance art for video and film of the 1970s and 1980s. This fellowship enabled me to do research at several archives and libraries and attend several relevant art museums including the Museum of Modern Art – Rio, the Daros Foundation, the Museu de Arte do Rio, and the Centro Municipal de Helio Oiticica, as well as to meet with several artists. This research trip allowed me to collect valuable archival information related to my dissertation and to flesh out some of my theoretical and methodological approaches in my study.