Ché Rhodes holds an MFA from Tyler School of Art  and  earned a B.A. from Centre College where he began his career under the mentorship of Stephen Rolfe Powell.  Currently he is a Professor and Head of Studio Glass at the University of Louisville, Hite Institute of Art and Design. He is a former member of the Glass Art Society Board of Directors, and a current member of the Crafting the Future Board of Trustees and the Penland School of Crafts Board of Trustees. Rhodes has demonstrated at the 2006, 2010, and 2015 Glass Art Society Conferences and has been an instructor at the Penland School of Crafts, Penland North Carolina; Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood Washington; The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York; Urban Glass, Brooklyn, New York, and at Scuola del Vetro: Abate Zanetti, in Venice Italy. He is a recipient of the James Renwick Alliance Distinguished Educator Award and this work is included in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum as well as the Speed Museum of Art.