If the shoe fits…hang it on your wall! Created by inspiring television personality and Editor-at-Large for O, The Oprah Magazine, Gayle King, this stylish candy mosaic tempts the inner fashionista in all of us. King modeled her art after one of her favorite pairs of high heels and pumps up the flair with vivid colors that draw the eye. Step up the elegance in your home with this piece!
Artist: Gayle King
Title: Dylan’s Candy Bar Sweet 16 Candy Mosaic Created By Gayle King
Year created: 2017
Medium: Candy
Height (inches): 31
Signed by the artist
Signed Area: back
Width (inches): 2
Depth (inches): 23
This piece is framed.
Gayle King is a co-host of CBS This Morning and Editor-at-Large of the award-winning O, The Oprah Magazine. King previously hosted The Gayle King Show, a live, weekday television interview program on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network. The program, which featured a discussion of a broad variety of topics that include politics, cultural developments, was also broadcast on XM Satellite Radio, where it premiered in 2006. Before moving into print and radio, King worked for 18 years (1982-2000) as a television news anchor for CBS affiliate WFSB-TV in Hartford, Conn., during which period, she also hosted her own syndicated daytime program. Prior to joining WFSB, King worked at several other television stations, including WDAF-TV in Kansas City, Mo. (1978-1981), WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Md. (1976), and WTOP-TV in Washington, D.C. (1975).
King has received numerous awards for her extensive work as a journalist. In addition to three Emmys, she was honored in 2008 with the American Women in Radio & Television Gracie Award for Outstanding Radio Talk Show and in 2010 with both the Individual Achievement Award for Host-Entertainment/Information and the New York Women in Communications' Matrix Award recipient. King spent several years of her childhood in Ankara, Turkey, before returning with her family to the United States. She graduated from the University of Maryland in 1976 with a degree in psychology. The mother of a daughter, Kirby, and a son, Will, she currently resides in New York City.
The sale of this art benefits Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO). SEO was founded in 1963 with a mission to provide talented and motivated young people from underserved and underrepresented communities with access to superior educational and career opportunities. Today, SEO runs three programs: SEO Scholars is an eight-year academic program that gets low-income public high school students to and through college—with a 90% college graduation rate; SEO Career is a summer internship and professional development program targeting talented Black, Hispanic, and Native American undergrads and pre-law school candidates—with 80% of 2015 and 2016 interns receiving full-time employment offers from an SEO partner; SEO Alternative Investments provides education, exposure, training and mentoring opportunities to talented professionals traditionally underrepresented in the alternative investments sector. Nearly 90% of participants in the Alternative Investments Fellowship Program received full-time job offers in the alternative investments sector.
The Candy Mosaic Charity Auction is administered by Dylan's Candy BarN and CharityBuzz. Proceeds benefiting the individual charities will be distributed by Dylan's Candy BarN. Dylan's Candy BarN is an exempt organization as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.