Student, SCR, Laguna Museum Win NEA Grants

South Coast Repertory, Laguna Art Museum and a UC Irvine graduate student are the Orange County winners in the latest round of National Endowment for the Arts grants.

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Costa Mesa-based SCR won a $120,000 grant to support its 1993-94 season.

Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach was awarded two grants: $75,000 to underwrite “The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism,” scheduled for spring, 1995; and $10,000 to support its presentation in January of “Augustus Vincent Tack: Landscape of the Spirit,” a traveling exhibit of works by the early 20th-Century American painter, organized by the Phillips Collection in Washington.

Daniel Voll of Irvine is a UCI graduate student in fiction writing (see accompanying story) and one of 25 graduate students chosen to participate in Arts Corps, a $250,000 NEA pilot program. It will enable students to spend the summer living with families in rural communities across the country and share their creative talents with community members.

Voll will stay for six weeks in Quincy in Northern California. He plans to work on an oral history project with the Maidu Indians, a Pueblo tribe that is one of the oldest American Indian communities in the country, he said.

Arts Corps provides each host community with $2,500 to defray costs of the residency and each student with $4,200 for expenses.

The NEA awarded a total of $36.5 million to more than 1,120 arts organizations nationwide in this grant round.