UA student explores health issues in gallery exhibit

For UA fine arts graduate student Kira Fournier, the old adage "there is an exception to every rule" does not apply.

That's because the artist striving to obtain her master's degree has not let her battle with ovarian cancer stop her from doing what she loves - making art.

Creating art since she was a child, Fournier's glass and mixed media sculpture exhibit is currently on display at the Joseph Gross Gallery in her master's thesis show "Getting Out Alive."

"I always liked to make things when I was a kid and when I went to college, I learned about pottery," she said.