Holly graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004, where she studied photography and sculpture. Her professional background is in tabletop photography and photographing large scale paintings. She was part of a team that photographed the original watercolors, The Birds of America by John James Audubon at the New York Historical Society. She was the Joyce Elaine Grant solo show recipient in 2006 for a solo exhibition of her artwork at Texas Women's University in Denton Texas. Holly photographs the ancient coins and antiquities for the Buy or Bid sales and for Gemini Numismatic Auctions.