Kevin Nance biography

Art and Architecture Critic Kevin Nance is from North Carolina, where he grew up on a tobacco farm and later graduated from Duke University with a degree in English in 1983. Prior to his arrival at the Sun-Times in 2004, Nance was an arts writer, columnist and critic at The Tennessean in Nashville and, before that, for the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader, where he also spent time as a police and investigative reporter. His individual honors include the Darrell Sifford Prize in Journalism, a first-place award from the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors, and four consecutive first-place feature-writing awards from the Kentucky Press Association. He also contributed to team coverage projects that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the National Headliner Award and a Green Eyeshade Award from the Society for Professional Journalists. Nance was a fellow at the National Critics Institute in 2000 and, in 2006, the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program.