The Clark County Public Art Fund has allocated $175,000.00 for this project; $17,500 to be paid to each of the ten (10) selected artists. If an artist team is selected, the team will receive $17,500 and no more. The $17,500 each artist is paid includes all costs associated with the project, including the artist design fee, materials, fabrication, artwork transportation, and installation of the artwork. This is a fixed cost project. The selected artists will be contractually responsible to deliver the artwork(s) complete and fully installed. All design intellectual property rights, fabrication, labor, materials, transportation, installation, engineering, insurance, contingency and every other related cost is the sole responsibility of the winning artist(s). Costs that exceed the approved budget, if any, shall be the sole financial responsibility of the selected artists. Selected artists will select and pay all required material suppliers and subcontractors. Any subcontractors hired by the artist must be paid prevailing wage. 

The Clark County Commission established the honorary position to encourage poetry as an art form in Southern Nevada and a medium for inspirational public commentary. A committee of poets and writers chose Isaacson.  Isaacson’s term starts on Monday, June 1, and will last two years. The committee also selected Jessica “Jes Flo” Washington as alternate poet laureate during the term. Both Isaacson and Washington and other local poets will participate in the June 6 reading.

“We are proud to welcome Bruce Isaacson as Clark County’s first poet laureate and his alternate Jessica Washington,” said Commissioner Chris Giunchigliani, who was instrumental in creating the position. “It’s important to promote the arts in our community, and Bruce Isaacson is a perfect example of someone who has been quietly working with our poets and helping to raise the quality of literature in Clark County.”