Work in the arts and disability require new models for inquiry. This report by Former Resident of Research Analysis & Documentation Audrey Maxner offers both personal critical reflection and an overview of an inquiry process, heuristic and ethnographic project, and learnings for the field. To start, the report provides a brief summary of the discourse on arts-based heuristic and ethnographic methods. The author then shares the process, followed by the project itself and the creative work produced as a result. To conclude, the paper summarizes critical insights gained through the process and work and offers a reframing of approaches of wellness in the intersectional fields of arts, education, and disability studies.