Saturday, October 24, 2026
Fall 2026
Seattle Atelier
Fall 2026, Plein Air Season
West Seattle
Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays
Saturday August, 29-
10 AM-1PM
Lunch 1PM-2PM
2PM-6PM
We will be parking in the usual place.
We will be having lunch in the home of our host midway through the sessions before resuming work..
Feel free to contact me for more details and/or to be placed on a waiting list.
We will be meeting here every morning this quarter, final crits of the day will take place on the back deck of our host.
Michael 206-420-7287
michaellanemcdonald@gmail.com
Thursday, August 13, 2026
The Art of the Nerd Reich (continued).
It is Thursday August 13, 2026, almost ten months after the arduous and costly fight to save my business and some of the proof of the attempted theft, by people closely linked to Gage Academy of Art, is still online.
Mapquest still reads that my business is operated by the white nationalist Andrew Conru.
(below)
That is my business location on the map
This is the general search result (below) with a photo I took of my students, Tabitha Brown, Jennifer Small and Sabella Wells next to it.
Here’s the link: https://www.mapquest.com/us/washington/seattle-atelier-365214677
At one time all the search engine results went to them.
The people who did this have been lying about me (and my unblemished teaching record) to people for years.
The targeted harassment of my business got so bad and so devious that the police had to become involved.
When a full investigation was conducted by the Seattle PD, some key people were asked by Gage Academy to move on.
Every Gage person affiliated with Conru’s current enterprise (formerly called Seattle Atelier) are close friends with people deemed too unethical to remain at Gage.
Figures, huh?
Despite all of this I am very glad and proud to have created a school for perceptual painting in Seattle.
My loyal following has sustained me over the years and I am eternally grateful to them.
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