the proposed essay should be about 1500-2000 words long.

the artwork should be associated with Southern Nevada in some way. This could mean that it was made by an artist who lives in Southern Nevada, or that it was made by an artist who used Southern Nevada as a theme, or that the artist was raised in Southern Nevada and their background has influenced the work in a convincing way, etc.

your tone can be academic, lyrical, historical, critical, or whatever works best for you. You are invited to discuss the context of the artwork, the history behind it, aspects of the artist’s practice that led them to create it, or anything else that seems relevant. You can use your focus on the artwork as a springboard leading to a discussion of related ideas. (Think of Rosalind Krauss moving from an investigation of Rodin's The Gates of Hell into into a discussion of repetition, copying, and so on, in “The Originality of the Avant Garde.")  Please be ambitious.