Dana King Biography
Dana King is a sculptor and broadcast journalist from the United States. She worked as an anchor for CBS affiliate KPIX in San Francisco. King left KPIX in 2012 to pursue her passion for sculpting and art. Her outdoor sculpture commemorating the Montgomery bus boycott is on display at Montgomery’s National Memorial for Peace and Justice.
How old is Dana King? – Age
She is 61 years old as of 7 March 2021. She was born in 1960 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
Who is Dana King married to? – Husband
She is married to Footballer Linden Keith King. King was a linebacker in the NFL for thirteen seasons, nine with the San Diego Chargers and four with the Los Angeles Raiders.
Dana King Salary
She earns an annual salary of $75,449.
Dana King Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $3 million.
What is Dana King doing now? – Career
On December 7, 2012, King announced her departure as a CBS San Francisco news anchor. Although her departure gave her more time to pursue her art career, she began her career while also working as a news anchor for KPIX-TV (CBS 5). King intended to pursue her passion for art and sculpting in the time following her departure. King considered sculpting to be her “third career,” explaining that art and sculpture were her true passion and calling. Sculpture, charcoal drawing, and oil painting are among the mediums used by King.
Throughout her artistic career, King has been known for her sculptures and community projects that aim to convey a political message. One of King’s most well-known sculptures is an outdoor memorial to the women who led and sustained the Montgomery bus boycott. This sculpture is on display at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, which opened in 2018. A teacher, a grandmother, and a pregnant woman standing in a triangular formation in this sculpture. Furthermore, King used her journalism knowledge to portray these women as if they were from 1950s Alabama.
According to King, the sculpture of women was meant to depict how the women involved were “quiet activists” who were silently making a difference despite discrimination. Black Art in America named her one of the “10 Emerging Black Female Artists to Collect.” King is also a business owner and the proprietor of a thriving artists’ colony in Oakland, California.
King prefers sculptures because they occupy space, and space, according to her, is power. She believes that sculpture provides an opportunity to shape culturally significant memories that influence how African descendants are regarded and remembered in the public eye. She believes that African descendants deserve public truth monuments that reflect their powerful, resilient, and unyielding endurance and are created from a Black aesthetic perspective.
On October 13, 2018, members of the Oakland community began painting a mural near a local homeless encampment with the theme “Oakland for all of us” in Oakland, California. King made this mural project possible by donating space from the building she owns on East 12th Street and 13th Avenue. King donated the wall in the hopes of bringing the community together and raising awareness about political change. In 2016, King created “A Man for the People,” a sculpture dedicated to William Byron Rumford, the first African American elected to the California legislature from Northern California in 1948. In Berkeley, California, the artwork was the first to be used to honor an African American.
Dana King Awards
King won one of five local Emmy Awards in 1998 and 2000 for her reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch in Honduras. In March 2005, King received an RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award for her reporting on the tenth anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. In 2009, she received another Murrow Award for her work on the “Assignment Africa” series. She is also well-known for her coverage of the Afghan conflict and the September 11th attacks.
