Airika Dollner attended Savannah College of Art and Design, GA with a portfolio scholarship, in 1995. While studying, she became ill with Rheumatoid Arthritis ranked in the top 97% severity in the world. She began to take photographs, do interior design, experiment with media, curate events, promote, write, and became an activist to accommodate personal expression despite pain and physical limitation.
As an artist who could render realism, losing the ability to simply write her name due to chronic illness and repeated surgery was a life-altering obstacle for those 16 years. Remarkably, in 2009, after stinging herself over 2500 times with live honeybees (while undergoing 2 years of back to back surgeries that had her in a wheelchair) her symptoms miraculously vanished.
Though she now lives with partial fusions in both wrists, a total knee replacement,  total hip replacement, etc., she has been in incredible health since without medication. This has allowed her to focus on drawing and painting far more than she could for over a decade.
Her fine art work, in varying mediums, has shown in art events, publications, displayed in businesses, studios, fundraisers, and adorned sets in Los Angeles, San Diego, New York City, Toronto and North Carolina. She has traveled extensively, directed/curated events, worked with high profile individuals, and in most recent years she was a core member of RevolutionTruth.org, involved in advancing public and media awareness of the NDAA Lawsuit (indefinite Detention Act) against President Obama of the U.S.