Mad Max

Artist and popular former Dartmouth quarterback Max Heiges '10 is the subject of this story about a 26-foot tall, 750-pound art installation he is responsible for in Geyserville, Calif.

Max Heiges
(Courtesy Dartmouth)

Heiges, well known for making terrific Etch-A-Sketch art and funny drawings on the white board in quarterback meetings when he was in college, was also a serious studio art major at Dartmouth.

From the story:

During high school at the Marin School of the Arts, his obsession was creating realistic paintings, taking pages from National Geographic and copying them in oils. Yet high school football was what got him to Dartmouth College in Hanover, N. H.
At Novato High, he also served as football captain and lettered in track, lacrosse and baseball.
“To me, college was all about football, the coach and the team,” he said. “I was not intending on majoring in studio art, but that is where I found a place for myself.”

And . . .

He now spends part of most days in New York cleaning up for that artist and others. He pays the rent on his one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn with an evening job with a catering company, and has turned the living room into an art studio. 

“Now I am trying not to say yes to all the lucrative catering jobs so I will have more time for my own art,” he said.