Newport Museum Awarded Grants

The Newport Harbor Art Museum has been awarded $154,000 in grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The largest, $15,000 from the Endowment’s museum program, is earmarked for additions to the Newport Harbor’s permanent collection.

A museum program grant of $12,500 is for an exhibit, “Barry Le Va: 1968-1988,” coming to Newport Beach in January from the Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery in Pittsburgh. Three installations from different periods of Le Va’s work will be re-created specifically for the Newport Harbor showing.

Other grants are for the conservation and maintenance of art in the collection and to support the museum’s ongoing Contemporary Culture series of experimental music, dance, video and readings.

One of 11 events in the series, an adaptation by Los Angeles performance artist Nancy Evans of Edward Albee’s play “Tiny Alice,” received $6,400 under the Endowment’s InterArts program. The series, which runs from September through May, also will include performances by trom-bone and Repercussion Unit and the ROVA Saxophone Quartet.