Saban Howard is the creator of the new world.

Saban Howard is the creator of the new World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C.

He's one of those prominent sculptor artists in the United States at this point.

He studied at the Philadelphia College of Art, University of Arts in Philadelphia, and the New York Academy of Art.

He is the co-author of the Art of Life with his wife, Tracy Slatin.

He is a great champion of modern classicism as well.

He joins us to talk about that school of art, the state of monumental culture and art at the present time in the United States, and the World War I Memorial itself.

Welcome, Mr. Howard.

Thank you for having me on today. I'm honored. Thank you very much.

Tell us first how you became involved in the World War I Memorial.

I mean, it is in some of your interviews,

but give our listeners how this happened. It was a 360 team, a blind competition, and it was

global. I entered with a classical architect out of Texas in the summer of 2015, and I did not make it to the final five, but there's something inside me that told me we're

not over yet.

And I got this email from Joe Weishower, who was, he wasn't even a licensed architect

at that point.

He was architect in training out of Arkansas.

And he asked me to join with him.

So this is important because usually an architect will dictate what the sculptor does.

But in this case, our team that was formed had a relatively young man and then somebody who, I could call myself a seasoned veteran since

I've been doing it for 35 years. So we were able to promote something that really moved forward

into the realm, what you saw back in a Renaissance, something very, very large, epic, visual narrative that would tell a story

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