King of Dallas The Black Academy of Arts and Letters C urtis King is an accomplished creator, producer and director who has worked with many great talents including everyone from Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee to Billy Preston and Golden Globe winner Regina Taylor. He also describes himself now as “basically an entrepreneur,” but he is also a visionary and an inspiration. For more than four decades, he has brought cultural and artistic diversity to the City of Dallas and beyond. In addition to his own stellar career, King’s creation and promotion of his The Black Academy of Arts and Letters, Inc., (TBAAL) institution has helped create over the last 42 years, what one of his supporters calls "a reservoir of talent, art and history ... now making a difference worldwide." Artists such as Lou Gossett, Maya Angelou, Halle Berry, T.C. Carson, Tamela Mann, Regina Taylor, Erykah Badu and many more have studied, supported, or shared their gifts at the academy. At its core, TBAAL is “a multi-discipline arts institution whose mission is to promote, cultivate, foster, preserve and perpetuate the African, African American and Caribbean Arts and Letters in the Fine, Literary, Visual, Performing and Cinematic Arts.” It is a cultural institution so important for our communities to support. For both the artists and the audience, the Arts are enlightening, entertaining, and powerful, giving people a different perspective, new awareness and a framework for understanding. Cause Magazine
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