RISD’s Chace Center is the place to be this Thursday, November 6, 2008, 7-9pm, when RISD and Threadless unveil the online tee shirt company’s first guest-curated Threadless Select Series, with the theme and artists chosen by RISD President John Maeda. After an open call for submissions and a request for suggestions by RISD alumni and students, the president assembled four professors as creatives for the project: Nancy Skolos from Graphic Design, Soojung Ham [RISD ‘92, Industrial Design] from Industrial Design, and Trent Burleson [RISD MFA ‘76, Painting] and Randy Willier, both from Illustration. All the faculty members have given a unique meaning to John Maeda’s chosen theme of Newness. Beginning with the RISD series, Threadless now plans to have guest curators for the Select Series on an ongoing basis. The RISD Newness shirts can be purchased online at theselectseries.com or in-store at risd|works. Sales proceeds, coupled with the artists’ and president’s generation donation of their commissions, will amount to an impressive $15,000 donation to our scholarship fund.

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