Kory Dollar
Digital Portfolio

Kory Dollar graduated from Washington State University with a major in Human Development and a minor in Digital Technology and Culture. She is the owner of Marvelous Mosaic and Dollar Creations. Kory is a multi-media artist, specializing in mosaic art, photography, animation, and videography. Kory is intrigued by glass and its dimensional effects it can produce by illumination; she uses light, reflection, and negative space to create her mosaics. Most of her work is called GOG (glass on glass) mosaic art. She up-cycles salvaged wood framed windows and creates beautiful mosaic sun-catchers or privacy screens that can be hung in a window or on a covered patio. Kory also accepts custom orders for large mosaic murals, backsplashes, and fireplaces. She specializes in nature, nautical, mandalas, and goddesses. Kory’s passion for creating comes from nature and nurture. Kory grew up with an artistically inclined family always encouraging her to use self-expression as a form of mediation. From a very young age, she has had practice working with many textiles, wood, stained glass, clay, ink, acrylic, and watercolor. Kory digitally driven as well; she has extensive knowledge in the following software applications: Flash, iMovie, iWeb, After Effects, Maya, Photoshop, Final Cut Pro X, Garage band, HTML 5, CSS3, and Microsoft Office Suite.  You can find her on twitter, facebook, flickr, viemo, youtube and more!

Kory’s inspiration for her mosaics comes from design, texture, and color of the stained glass itself. She is motivated to leave a healthy artistic footprint behind for her children; she is driven by her need to artistically express feelings, desires, and visions. There are natural patterns in the glass that artistically energize her creative since of style, to generate movement in the piece. If you study her mosaics you will find all the glass is hand cut using a freestyle method she developed. She cuts most of my pieces with wheeled nippers. Since 2014, Kory has been striving to increase andamento (visual flow and direction within a mosaic) among her mosaics. Kory welcomes questions from young artists and enjoys teaching mosaic classes to all skill levels. In addition to her passion for the arts, she enjoys to spend time with her family, camping, ridding wave runners, collecting rocks, going to garage sales and swap meets, and loves to take adventures to parks, national forests, lakes, and many other scenic areas in the Pacific Northwest.