In the movie Sleepless in Seattle architect Tom Hanks described to a nationwide radio host what was special about his late wife: When I touched her hand it was like coming home ... only to no home I'd ever known. A 27-year-old man newly minted from the University of Houston School of Architecture, the marble floors and granite walls of the Decorative Center made him anxious. A photo of a huge grinning alligator on the wall of Anderson Elementary in Spring shared a corner with a stylized oil painting of an African American beauty. At UH he learned the traditional style and structure of the architectural profession. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the mean annual salary of an artist lags that of an architect by 40 percent. Just ask the girl down the street whose dad helped her craft a Statue of Liberty hat from tin foil for the Fourth of July parade, or the kid whose teacher stayed late to help him paint a homemade Mother's Day card.
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