Holly Gaboriault (she/her) is a storytelling producer working across filmmaking, curation, design research, education and programming centered in the power of storytelling. Her narrative recovery projects and collaborations address absences, reframing void, and reclaim voice within art + design archives and museums. Collaboration being crucial for her work, Holly has held positions as a designer, illustrator, creative director, curator, director of programming, strategic storytelling consultant and community board member.
As a faculty member at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the Illustration Department, she has lectured in the Theory + History of Art + Design, Liberal Arts Department, served as Assistant Professor-in-Residence, and as an interdepartmental Graduate Lecturer and Critic. Her courses focus on creative research methods, design exploration and community storytelling. Serving as a storytelling producer for the Brown Arts Institute at Brown University (2023-2026), previous projects include RISD Research Perspectives (2020-2023) and The RI Art Archive Project (2012-2016).
Holly is the 2026-2028 Faculty Fellow in the Costume and Textiles Department at the RISD Museum of Art. Her recent exhibition and book projects feature untold queer histories of mid-20th century fashion designers and textile illustrators; early histories of theater and costume innovation; and reframing narratives of hidden creative labor and interdisciplinary research.
As a faculty member at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), she has lectured in the Theory + History of Art + Design, Liberal Arts Department, served as Assistant Professor-in-Residence for the Illustration department, and as an interdepartmental Graduate Lecturer and Critic. Her courses integrate tools for narrative activation research and curatorial practices emphasizing responsibility for sustaining community stories.
Holly’s current and ongoing exhibition and book projects feature untold queer histories of mid-20th century fashion designers and textile illustrators; early histories of theater and costume innovation; and reframing forensic interconnectivity of hidden creative labor and interdisciplinary research.
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