NIGHTLINE visits Sabin Howard’s studio

The thing about being married to an artist is, you never know who will show up for dinner. Successful artists like Sabin enjoy a kind of classlessness. They move freely among all circles. This is one the great qualities of art: it is an equal-opportunity-uplifter. It speaks to the essence of humanity, not only to wealth or status or education or privilege.

So we have broken bread with billionaires and underwear models, celebrities and professors, critics and pundits and astrologers and engineers and retauranteurs and musicians and struggling actors and dancers, along with a host of “regular” people, each of whom has a story that enriches my writing. It’s a gift to be exposed to this fascinating variety of folks.

Sabin’s model for the head of the APOLLO is a young man named Marc, a good-looking Greek/Italian mix with a killer body, a gifted poet and passionate liver-of-life. Marc had a run through some difficult times. He emerged thanks to his Christian faith, and he joined a Christian dating service, hoping to find a lady love who shared his values. NIGHTLINE examined these niche dating services and profiled Marc on a date. Marc took the young lady to Sabin’s studio. Sabin is simply called “a sculptor”–as if he wasn’t THE sculptor right now. But the studio looks pretty good, and there are some nice shots of the head of APOLLO.