Max Coleman

Wall Partner: DoJo4

Location: 2030 17th Street

Max Coleman is a visual artist who began his life on the wooded shores and cliffs of Connecticut. Graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2015, his work seeks to take the elements and techniques used by artists of centuries past, and apply them to the modern day medias of digital illustration and street art. Combined with a passion for poetry and conservation, his work melds with his imagination and love of the natural world. Thus, it is able to sit comfortably in the present while at the same time harkening the viewer back to a time when the written word and drawn image were man’s only way to capture and share the beauty of earth.

 The manatee’s closest relatives are the elephant and the hyrax (a small, gopher-sized mammal). Manatees are believed to have evolved from a wading, plant-eating animal. West Indian manatees have no natural enemies, and it is believed they can live 60 years or more. A high number of additional fatalities are from human-related causes.Ultimately, loss of habitat is the most serious threat facing manatees in the United States today. There is a minimum population count of 5,733 manatees as of January/February 2019, according to the most recent synoptic survey.

*Photos by Lauren Click and Cori Anderson