Robert Horvath is currently a professor at IUPUI in Indiana, and was an art professor associated with Eastern Illinois University while I was a student. He co-led a formative study abroad trip, and is one of the handful of personal artistic mentors in my life, even if it was for a brief period. Please check out his sculptural show in Dallas if you have the chance.
One unrelated memory that I hope he wouldn’t mind me sharing was his description of an in-progress piece as a “puppy-corn, or uni-puppy” in his thick and beautiful Eastern European accent.