Howard Ben Tré

Dale Chihuly recruited Ben Tré to the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)[4] from Portland, Oregon where he would graduate with a Masters of Fine Arts in 1980.

[3] Ben Tré utilized his training as an industrial manufacturing master technician to create glass artworks based on traditional methods.

[6] In lieu of Ben Tré's 2001 exhibition at the Orange County Museum of Art, critic Roberta Carasso described his work as being "part of the glass revolution".

[6] The Christian Science Monitor described his poured glass works as timeless, monumental and "hulking, architectural forms he creates...existed before the dawn of recorded history.

"[3] Arthur Danto stated in 2000 that Ben Tré's glass works were redefining and powerful, and that he creates "a kind of pleasure that we don't usually associate with art.