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Royal Cloyd, 86, founding director of Boston Center for the Arts

By Kathleen McKenna

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  April 26, 2012

In the 1960s, when many considered the South End unsafe and rundown, Royal Cloyd envisioned a mecca for Boston’s artistic community. As founding director of the Boston Center for the Arts, he helped convert unused and underappreciated buildings into a campus of theatres, galleries, and studios. “A lot of people said it wouldn’t work, that people wouldn’t visit the South End because it was too dangerous,’’ he told the Globe in 1980, during the BCA’s 10th birthday party. “But it’s worked beyond our wildest dreams.’’

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