Holly Gaboriault (she/her) combines design research, curation, and documentary film to highlight hidden histories and methodologies centered in the power of storytelling. Her research focuses on narrative recovery projects addressing design histories and legacies often undocumented, hidden and forgotten.
A two-time RISD alumni (BFA Illustration and MA Global Arts & Cultures), Holly produces and directs film and media projects expanding interdisciplinary dialogues among artists, designers, and creative scholars ranging from fashion and textiles to performance and curatorial dialogues. Holly is a guest lecturer on creative research methods and art histories cross-departmentally at RISD and Brown University and a Critic in the Illustration Department. Based in Providence, Rhode Island, her upcoming design research projects and films feature fashion designers, illustrators, and makers of creative magic.
Collaborators + Partners
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, RI
Department of Illustration
2024–25 Critic Graduate Thesis Prep Seminar, Visual Thinking, Visual Strategies,
2023– 24 Assistant Professor / Advisor History of Illustration
Theory + History of Art + Design
2021–23 Adjunct Professor Female Forces: Hidden Histories of Women in Art + Design
Narrative Interventions: Hidden Histories in Museums and Archives
Global Modernisms \ Critical Introduction to Architecture + Design
Experimental Foundation Studies (EFS) \ Master of Architecture (MArch) program
2022–24 Critic
Summer@Brown, Brown University, Providence, RI
2021–24 Adjunct Professor Fashion, Gender, and Textiles in the Modern Age,
Female Forces: Hidden Histories of Women in Art + Design
Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
2014–16 Design Instructor Two Dimensional Design History + Visual Practice
Exhibiting Artist
19 On Paper
5 Traverse Gallery
ArtProv Gallery
Art League of Rhode Island Gallery
AS220 Project Space Gallery
Attleboro Arts Museum
Bannister Gallery, RI College
Candita Clayton Gallery
Graphic Arts Workshop, San Francisco
ISB Gallery, RISD Illustration
Jamestown Arts Center
Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Keeseh Studios
Krause Gallery, Moses Brown
Museum of Art, RISD
Newport Art Museum
Pawtucket Arts Collaborative Gallery
Pool Art Fair, New York
Portsmith Artist Guild
Providence Art Club
Providence Arts Windows
Providence Public Library
PVD Fest
RI State Council for the Arts Gallery
Museum of Art, RISD
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, NY
Salve Regina University Gallery
Sol Koffler Graduate Gallery, RISD
University of Rhode Island Gallery
Warwick Museum of Art
Woods Gerry Gallery, RISD
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Film Production
Curation
Design Research Projects
Strategic Narrative Consultation
Guest Speaking
Arts + Culture Programming
Design + Art History Lectures
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