Howard Ben Tre was an American glass artist who was born in 1949 and died in 2020. He worked with poured glass, creating small sculptures and large scale public artworks. Ben Tre obtained his bachelor’s degree from Portland State University and moved to the East coast where he graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a MFA in 1980. Glass magazine called Ben Tre a pioneer in the technique of using hot glass casting in fine art. He utilized his training as an industrial manufacturing master technician to create glass artworks based on traditional methods.