Prize Winner 2022:
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin
Jeanne Claire van Ryzin is an award-winning writer and journalist who has covered visual art, film, performance, literature, and architecture, and just about any combination thereof.
As the staff arts critic for the Austin American-Statesman for 17 years, her commendations include the First Place Arts & Culture Criticism Award from the Society for Features Journalism. Additionally, she has been awarded professional fellowships at USC’s Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism and NEA/Columbia University Arts Journalism Institute.
Jeanne Claire founded and led Sightlines, a nonprofit online arts and culture magazine that reached an annual readership of 600,000. And for two years, she taught arts journalism in the College of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin.
Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Architecture, Dwell, the Review of Contemporary Fiction, Art Papers, Hyperallergic, and ICON design magazine, among other publications. She lives in Maine.