{{short description|American journalist and sculptor (born 1960)}} {{Infobox person | name = Dana King | image = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1960|03|07|mf=yes}} | birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | education = Ferris State University<br>Academy of Art University | occupation = Journalist, TV Anchor<br> Sculptor | other_names = | title = | family = | spouse = | children = | relatives = | credits = ''Good Morning America'' <br>''CBS Morning News'' <br>National Memorial for Peace and Justice | agent = | website = danakingart.com }} '''Dana King''' (born March 7, 1960)<ref name=CBS>{{cite web |title=Dana King |url=http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/personality/dana-king/ |accessdate=2011-04-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110309080612/http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/personality/dana-king/ |archivedate=2011-03-09 }}</ref> is an American broadcast journalist and sculptor. She served as an anchor for the CBS owned-and-operated station KPIX-TV in San Francisco. In 2012, King left KPIX to pursue her passion in sculpting and art.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140921211833/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-34331777.html "KPIX Anchor Dana King Will Leave Her Post to Pursue Art Career"], ''Oakland Tribune'', December 5, 2012.</ref><ref>[http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/12/05/dana-king-announces-departure-from-cbs-5/ "Dana King Announces Departure From CBS 5"], KPIX-TV, December 5, 2012.</ref> Her outdoor sculpture commemorating the Montgomery bus boycott is displayed at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. King uses historically generalized and racist ideas that require in-depth researches, to provide information on the normative misrepresentation of Black peoples' emotional and physical sacrifices.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=DANA KING ART|url=https://danakingart.com/about|access-date=2021-05-19|website=DANA KING ART|language=en-US}}</ref>
==Journalism career== King won her second of five local Emmy Awards for her reporting in Honduras in 1998 and 2000, reporting on the consequences of Hurricane Mitch.<ref name=CBS/> King also won an RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award in March 2005 for her reporting on the tenth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. She won another Murrow Award in 2009 for a series called "Assignment Africa."<ref name=CBS/> She is also known for her coverage of the conflict in Afghanistan, and the September 11 Attacks.<ref>[http://www.marinmagazine.com/Marin-Magazine/May-2007/Dana-King/ Dana King] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091027024934/http://www.marinmagazine.com/Marin-Magazine/May-2007/Dana-King/ |date=2009-10-27 }}, Mimi Towle, ''Marin Magazine'', May 2007</ref>
In 1993, King co-anchored the debut of ABC's ''Good Morning America Sunday'',<ref>on January 3rd. [https://variety.com/1992/tv/news/ktvi-s-king-to-co-host-gma-sunday-101379/ "KTVI’s King to co-host 'GMA Sunday'"], ''Variety'', October 2, 1992.</ref> before moving to CBS's ''CBS Morning News'' (1994–95)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140921211847/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4200655.html "'GMA Sunday' Anchor To Join CBS Magazine"], ''Chicago Sun-Times'', November 18, 1993.</ref> and other CBS News programs, including the short-lived syndicated newsmagazine ''Day and Date''.
==Art career== King announced her departure as a news anchor for CBS San Francisco on December 7, 2012.<ref name="Dana King - Oakland - LocalWiki">{{Cite web|url=https://localwiki.org/oakland/Dana_King|title=Dana King - Oakland - LocalWiki|website=localwiki.org|access-date=2019-03-02}}</ref> Although this departure allowed King more free time to pursue her art career, she initially began her career while simultaneously working as a news anchor for KPIX-TV (CBS 5).<ref name="kqed.org">{{Cite web|url=https://www.kqed.org/arts/13830638/kpix-anchor-turned-sculptor-contributes-piece-to-lynching-memorial|title=KPIX Anchor-Turned-Sculptor Contributes Piece to Lynching Memorial|date=2018-04-29|website=KQED|language=en-us|access-date=2019-03-02}}</ref> In the time following her departure, King planned to pursue her passion for art and sculpting.<ref name="Dana King - Oakland - LocalWiki"/> King regarded sculpting to be her "third career," explaining art and sculpture to be her passion and true calling.<ref name="kqed.org"/> King's art includes the mediums of sculpture, charcoal drawing, and oil painting.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dominican.edu/dominicannews/dana-king-bringing-art-exhibit-to-dominican|title="Art of Dana King" exhibit at Dominican through August 26 — Dominican University of California|website=www.dominican.edu|access-date=2019-03-02|archive-date=2019-03-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306043730/https://www.dominican.edu/dominicannews/dana-king-bringing-art-exhibit-to-dominican|url-status=dead}}</ref> Furthermore, King explains her departure from journalism, saying, "I'm still a journalist, but now my medium is clay.<ref name="kqed.org"/>"
Throughout her art career, King is known for her sculptures and community projects that revolve around the goal of portraying a political message.<ref name="kqed.org"/> One of King's best known sculptures is her outdoor sculpture dedicated to the memory of the women who led and sustained the Montgomery bus boycott.<ref name="kqed.org"/> This sculpture is on display at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice that opened in 2018 in Montgomery, Alabama.<ref name="inside">{{cite news|url=https://www.birminghamtimes.com/2018/04/whats-inside-montgomerys-national-peace-museum-and-slave-memorial-opening-april-26/|title=What's inside Montgomery's national peace and slave memorial museum opening April 26|first=Barnett|last=Wright|accessdate=April 21, 2018|date=April 19, 2018|newspaper=Birmingham Times}}</ref> This sculpture depicts a teacher, grandma, and pregnant woman who are standing in a triangular formation.<ref name="kqed.org"/> Furthermore, King utilized her knowledge gained through journalism to portray these women as if they were from 1950s Alabama.<ref name="kqed.org"/> This sculpture of women, according to King, was meant to portray how the women involved were "quiet activists" who were silently making a difference although faced with discrimination.<ref name="kqed.org"/> She was recognized as one of "10 Emerging Black Female Artists To Collect" by ''Black Art in America.'' King is also an entrepreneur and the owner of a thriving artists’ enclave located in Oakland, California.
King prefers sculptures because they inhabit space and according to her space is power. She believes sculpture provides an opportunity to shape culturally significant memories that determine how African descendants are publicly regarded and remembered.<ref name=":0" /> She believes that the African descendants deserve public monuments of truth that radiate their powerful, resilient, and undying endurance created from a Black aesthetic point of view.
On October 13, 2018, in Oakland, California, members of the Oakland community began the painting of a mural near a local homeless encampment with the theme "Oakland for all of us."<ref name="sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com">{{Cite web|url=https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/10/14/dana-king-mural-oakland-community/|title=Community Members Paint Mural Near Oakland Homeless Camp|date=2018-10-14|language=en|access-date=2019-03-02}}</ref> This mural project was made possible by King who donated the space from the building she owns at East 12th Street and 13th Avenue.<ref name="sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com" /> King donated the wall with the hope to bring the community together as well as bring awareness to political change.<ref name="Robinson 1–12">{{Citation|last=Robinson|first=Ken|chapter=Introduction to Pearl King and her work|date=2018-10-08|pages=1–12|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9780429484056|doi=10.4324/9780429484056-1|title=Time Present and Time Past|s2cid=186566400 }}</ref> King explained, "Oakland is in the midst of an economic renaissance, but so many are being left behind.<ref name="Robinson 1–12" />"
In 2016, King created a sculpture, entitled ''A Man for the People'', dedicated to William Byron Rumford, the first African American member of the California State Assembly elected from Northern California, in 1948.<ref>{{cite web |title=William Byron Rumford Memorial |url=https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/civicartscollection/artwork/william-byron-rumford-memorial |website=City of Berkeley - Civic works collection |publisher=Artwork Archive |access-date=12 September 2022}}</ref> The art piece was the first in Berkeley, California, to honor an African American.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Parham |first1=Delencey |title=Berkeley celebrates civil-rights leader William Rumford |url=https://www.berkeleyside.org/2016/07/18/berkeley-celebrates-civil-rights-leader-william-rumford |access-date=September 12, 2022 |work=Berkeleyside |date=July 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220912154954/https://www.berkeleyside.org/2016/07/18/berkeley-celebrates-civil-rights-leader-william-rumford |archive-date=September 12, 2022}}</ref>
A year after the statue of Francis Scott Key in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park was toppled by protesters on June 19, 2020 in the wake of the murder of George Floyd,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Demonstrators Topple Statues in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park|url=https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/demonstrators-topple-statues-in-san-franciscos-golden-gate-park/2312839/|access-date=2020-07-02|website=NBC Bay Area|date=20 June 2020 |language=en-US}}</ref> King unveiled ''Monumental Reckoning'', which now encircles the plinth of the empty monument. These 350 sculptures, each four feet (1.2 meters), represent the first Africans kidnapped from their homeland in Angola and sold into chattel slavery in Virginia in 1619.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ogunbayo |first1=Morayo |title='Monumental Reckoning' unveiled in powerful celebration at Golden Gate Park |url=https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/art-exhibits/monumental-reckoning-unveiled-in-powerful-celebration-at-golden-gate-park |website=Datebook |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=22 February 2022}}</ref><ref name="Key statue">{{cite news|title='Reckoning' with slavery: toppled Francis Scott Key statue replaced by African figures |first=Barbara|last=Goldberg |date=June 11, 2021 |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/reckoning-with-slavery-toppled-francis-scott-key-statue-replaced-by-african-2021-06-11/ |newspaper=Reuters}}</ref>
Recent work includes a statue of pioneering Negro League baseball player Toni Stone, a bust of Joseph Gier, the first Black tenured professor in the University of California system, a bust of journalist and civil right activist Ida B. Wells, and a statue of civil rights activist Ella Baker. King relocated from California to Vero Beach, Florida in 2022 to join her daughter and grandchild.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schenkel |first=Mary |date=2024-08-01 |title=Journalist-turned-sculptor's work 'a love letter to Black people' |url=https://veronews.com/2024/08/01/journalist-turned-sculptors-work-a-love-letter-to-black-people/ |access-date=2025-12-24 |website=Vero News |language=en-CA}}</ref>
== Works ==
* Chrysalis * ''A Man for the People,'' Berkeley, California, a sculpture of Byron Rumford * ''Archangel of the Forest,'' Thelma Harris Art Gallery, Oakland * ''Waiting on the Wind,'' Thelma Harris Art Gallery, Oakland * ''Monumental Reckoning,'' Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
==Notes== {{reflist}}
== External links == *{{Official website|https://danakingart.com/}} *{{IMDb name|0416392}}
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