Kira earned her Master’s degree in Social Work in Southern California and built a fifteen-year career in Human and Social Services. In September 2006, she made the pivotal decision to devote herself full time to her calling as a bronze sculptor and contemporary artist. A first-generation descendant of Armenian immigrants, Kira was raised with a deep awareness of the human condition. Her compassion, shaped both by her heritage and her years as a social worker, continues to inform her artistic vision. The lives she encountered and the stories she witnessed have instilled in her a profound sensitivity to the resilience, fragility, and unspoken struggles of the human spirit. Kira credits much of her drive as a figurative bronze sculptor to her mentor and teacher, Richard MacDonald, whose guidance gave her the confidence to pursue her artistic path with unwavering dedication. She is also the founder of Clay Kids for Health, a nonprofit organization through which she has led countless workshops for hospitalized, abused, and neglected youth in Orange County and abroad. Her sculptures have been exhibited in fine art galleries across the United States, and she has earned international recognition as one of today’s leading contemporary sculptors. Based in Laguna Beach, Kira is both artist and humanitarian. Through each work, she seeks to reveal the raw, unfiltered landscape of human emotion and illuminate the eternal tension between the aspiration toward Heaven and the constraints of the physical world.