Dana King served as an anchor for the CBS owned-and-operated station KPIX-TV in San Francisco.
17 Facts About Dana King
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In 2012, King left KPIX to pursue her passion in sculpting and art.
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Dana 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.
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Dana 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.
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In 1993, Dana King co-anchored the debut of ABC's Good Morning America Sunday, before moving to CBS's CBS Morning News and other CBS News programs, including the short-lived syndicated newsmagazine Day and Date.
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Dana King announced her departure as a news anchor for CBS San Francisco on December 7,2012.
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Dana King regarded sculpting to be her "third career," explaining art and sculpture to be her passion and true calling.
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Dana King's art includes the mediums of sculpture, charcoal drawing, and oil painting.
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One of Dana King's best known sculptures is her outdoor sculpture dedicated to the memory of the women who led and sustained the Montgomery bus boycott.
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Furthermore, Dana King utilized her knowledge gained through journalism to portray these women as if they were from 1950s Alabama.
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Dana King was recognized as one of "10 Emerging Black Female Artists To Collect" by Black Art in America.
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Dana King is an entrepreneur and the owner of a thriving artists' enclave located in Oakland, California.
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Dana King prefers sculptures because they inhabit space and according to her space is power.
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Dana King believes sculpture provides an opportunity to shape culturally significant memories that determine how African descendants are publicly regarded and remembered.
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Dana King 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.
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Dana King donated the wall with the hope to bring the community together as well as bring awareness to political change.
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In 2016, Dana 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.