Annually in March and April, the Department of Visual and Performing Arts recognizes outstanding student achievement in the visual arts through a special event, the Horvath Student Exhibition. Since 1975, this event has displayed award-winning works that include dramatic sculpture, exuberantly colored paintings and an array of experimental drawings, ceramics, prints, photographs and designs. Department faculty invite a professional artist, art historian, graphic designer or photographer to jury the show and select awardees. The Department of Visual and Performing Arts hosts a reception for the Horvath Student Exhibit as the closing event of the University's annual Stander Symposium. During the reception, selected students receive awards for the Horvath Award for Realism, The Kevin Sorg Award for Excellence in Design, Outstanding Photography, Best in 3-D, 1st Place, 2nd Place, 3rd Place, and 3 Honorable Mentions as well as a Faculty Choice Award.Support for the awards comes from the Bela Horvath Award Fund established by Mrs. Horvath in honor of her husband, a Hungarian artist who found refuge in Dayton during and after World War II. Bela Horvath taught painting at the University of Dayton in the 1950s.

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