Holly Gaboriault (she/her) is a storytelling producer working across filmmaking, curation, design research, education and programming centered in the power of storytelling. Her archival narrative recovery projects and collaborations address absence as a constructive interventional tool for reframing void and reclaiming voice within art and design archives, museums, and institutional collections.
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.
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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