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Four of the Family and Justice plaster reliefs were discovered in a storage area in the CAYMC in 2010 by a staff member of the Detroit-Wayne Joint Building Authority.  Offered to the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum by the executive director and trustees of the Building Authority in March 2011, the Board accepted the gift into the Museum collection shortly thereafter.

A $12,000 grant from the Alden and Vada Dow Family Foundations in Oct. 2012 for the restoration of the four reliefs made it possible to contract with Scott Slocum, Marshall Fredericks’s long time assistant, to restore them.  Restoration of the first relief is complete.

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Ben Tré’s work is in numerous public collections, including Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Arco Corporate Art Collection, LosAngeles, AT&T Corporate Collection, Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Hirshhorn Museum and Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, PepsiCo Headquarters, Irvine, CA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, The St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, Southwestern Bell Corporation, Houston, and many others.

Ben Tré’s work has been the subject of more than two dozen solo exhibitions around the country since 1979.

“Howard Ben Tré’s work is especially intriguing and noteworthy in that he excels at creating small to monumental size cast glass sculptures for both public and private spaces. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to host an exhibition of the works on paper and sculpture of a great American contemporary sculptor at the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum,” said Museum Director Marilyn L. Wheaton.

The exhibition was organized by Habatat Galleries, Contemporary Art Glass, of Royal Oak, MI.
The exhibition runs through June 29, 2013. For more information, call (989) 964-7125 or visit the Museum’s website atwww.marshallfredericks.org. The Museum is open Mon. – Fri., 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and on Sat. 12:00 noon to 5:00 p.m.

What do the telephone, the Ferris Wheel, a 28,000-pound typewriter, and nylon stockings have in common?  They were just a few of the thousands of featured products, curiosities, and inventions that made their debut at one of the 17 international festivals on American soil.  From the practical to the peculiar, the events and displays of World’s Fairs shaped and reflected our American experience and promised a better standard of living for all.

Centuries of Progress: American World’s Fairs, 1853-1982 from Hagley Museum and Library presents a remarkable overview of the fairs, from the Crystal Palace Exposition in New York to the World’s Fair in Knoxville  Tennessee.  Approximately 125 objects, photographs, and ephemera detail more than a century of progress, promotion, and public response.

The history of the fairs is related through thematic categories: Progress as a Way of Life introduces the rationale for the creation of World’s Fairs.  Marketplace of Ideasdemonstrates the immense opportunity manufacturers had to market new inventions, while Consumerism depicts fair-goers as an eager audience for innovative goods, from Juicy Fruit to Wonder Bread and Dr Pepper.  Art, Architecture and Music and Popular Amusements illustrate the vast entertainment options, from colossal buildings and sculptures to carnival rides and exhibitions of “exotic” lands and cultures.  Finally, Remembering the Fair includes souvenirs and commemorative items.  After all, who could go home empty-handed after experiencing the wonders of a World’s Fair?