---
title: Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant
description: >-
  Annual grant for ceramic/diverse-media sculptors; three tiered awards up to
  $60,000 to support living, travel and creation expenses.
url: 'https://www.artsume.com/programs/184c353a-f1f7-44f4-bbc2-3fe3054fc7e1'
type: program
status: open
createdAt: '2026-10-11'
updatedAt: '2026-10-11'
programType: Grant
organization: Virginia A. Groot Foundation
organizationUrl: 'https://www.artsume.com/o/virginia-a-groot'
deadline: '2027-01-09'
location: 'Lake Forest, IL, United States'
isOnline: false
compensationRange: >-
  $60,000 first place, $30,000 second place, $20,000 third place, to support
  living, travel, and creation expenses.
disciplines:
  - ceramic sculpture
  - sculpture
  - ceramics
---

# Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant

**Hosted by:** Virginia A. Groot Foundation

**Type:** Grant | **Location:** Lake Forest, IL, United States | **Deadline:** January 9, 2027

## About This Program

### Supporting Your Vision

The Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant was established so that ceramic sculpture artists or sculptors of diverse mediums may have the opportunity to devote a substantial period of time to the development of his or her own work. For more than 30 years, our foundation has supported artists in launching their body of work, furthering their artistic careers, expanding their talent or skill set, and create a community of like-minded individuals that offer each other inspiration and motivation to realize their ultimate potential.

### Eligibility

Each year the Virginia A. Groot Foundation offers three grants to artists who have exceptional talent and demonstrated ability in ceramic sculpture or sculpture of diverse mediums.

### Annually, we offer three grant tiers

- $60,000 First Place
- $30,000 Second Place
- $20,000 Third Place

The freedom of sculptural storytelling should not be limited by expenses, and that's why the foundation aims to financially support artist expenses to live, travel, and create. Our grant winners' work is honored to those who express features redolent to genuine passion, an unrelenting energy to the craft, dynamism of disciplinary delivery, and transcendence of form.

### Program Schedule

Grant applications for this year's program are now being accepted.

- June 1st: Application Submissions Open
- January 9th: Application Deadline
- Mid-May: Winners Announced

### Apply Now

Grant applications are annually open from June 1st to February 1st of the granting year.

## Eligibility & Requirements

- **Career Stage:** Open to all
- **Geographic Eligibility:** International
- **Disciplines:** ceramic sculpture, sculpture, ceramics
- **Note:** Ceramic sculpture artists or sculptors of diverse mediums in any stage of their career development, emerging to mature. The grant is not for the support of continued studies or tuition. Student work is excluded from eligibility. Collaborative applications are accepted but must be marked as such.

### Additional Requirements

- Up to 20 images of recent work (individual images, not composites)
- Optional video, up to 3 minutes
- Work from the past 5 years preferred; earlier work may be included to show progression

## Compensation & Benefits

$60,000 first place, $30,000 second place, $20,000 third place, to support living, travel, and creation expenses.

**Includes:** Prize, Travel grant

The foundation aims to financially support artist expenses to live, travel, and create. Award money should be directed toward the artist's work and work direction, not tuition.

## Timeline

- **Opens:** May 31, 2026
- **Deadline:** January 9, 2027

## Contact

**Contact:** Nina

**Email:** nina@VirginiaAGrootFoundation.org

## How to Apply

Apply at: https://virginiaagrootfoundation.slideroom.com/#/login/program/89308