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My sculpture represents all the women who have died, thrived, and continue to live through the ravages of Breast Cancer and its treatment modes. The birch bark represents the cancer breast. The dancing figures at her base represent dances of unity and survival. Her appearance contains aspects of masculinity as well as femininity in honor of the many men who have also experienced breast cancer.

Francine was born and raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She is a self-taught artist, getting her start by leaning on her father's shoulder, as an observer, while he painted the Bucks County PA countryside in the open air. Her father, Samuel H. Frank, was a student and friend of Walter E. Baum, famous Bucks County Pennsylvania fine artist and art educator. Francine continued her art education by simply doing it. Frank has exhibited and sold her art in Yellow Springs, Ohio, Bar Harbor, Maine, Ellsworth, ME, and Milbridge, ME. , Francine enjoys saving Earth landscapes and the human figure on canvas. She prefers working in oils but handles acrylics, pastels and watercolors as well. She is also a papier mache� and stone sculptor,...