The Threshold Map: A Design History

How the MME’s founding commission evolved from a practical solution to a funding constraint into something better — and what that says about how the…

Apr 7 • Rachael Que Vargas

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March 2026

How A Research Project Became A Page-Turner That Will Make You Cry, Shout and Yell Amen.

I wrote a series of twenty-two institutional research reports. They read like a crime novel. That is because they document a crime.

Mar 31 • Rachael Que Vargas

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Building the Museum: How I’m Designing an Institution with an AI Collaborator

or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI

Mar 24 • Rachael Que Vargas

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January 2026

December 2025

Corrected links for Sculptural Fire Pits

Also Jewelry, Mosaics, and Art from my Personal Archive

Dec 18, 2025

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My Newest and Oldest Artwork Need New Homes

Jewelry, Mosaics, and Art from my Personal Archive on offer for the first time

Dec 4, 2025

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August 2025

Creating A Museum + School of Mosaics

Never shy of a heavy lift, I'm preparing to build my biggest work yet.

Aug 21, 2025 • Rachael Que Vargas

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July 2025

From The Palace To The Streets—

Where I’m going, how and why I chose it, and what I’ll do when I get there.

Jul 20, 2025 • Rachael Que Vargas

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March 2025

Fire Sale— I'm Leaving & Everything Must Go

I am closing the studio and leaving the US.

Mar 26, 2025 • Rachael Que Vargas

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December 2024

Resilience, Reinvention & Rock n' Roll

Joy is resistance.

Dec 4, 2024 • Rachael Que Vargas

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August 2024

Reinventing the Studio to Suit New and Old Art

The studio is open to the public again and I've added so much that is new!

Aug 21, 2024 • Rachael Que Vargas

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December 2023

New art and a whole new artist

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”— Pablo Picasso

Dec 1, 2023 • Rachael Que Vargas

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