Find a project you love. Back a project you love. Make Art Happen this AusArt Day
AusArt Day is a nationwide, sector-wide fundraising initiative designed to mobilise artists and arts organisations to raise funds for their work and creative ambitions on a single, powerful day. AusArt Day itself may be over but there's still time to Make Art Happen with many projects still accepting donations.
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Senses of Cinema: Keep film culture alive
Cinema doesn’t end when the credits roll. We need your support to keep film culture alive.
McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery: Help McClelland give a lot
McClelland is a place to gather, explore bushland, encounter extraordinary art and sculpture, enjoy lunch and discover something unexpected.
Cyril Callister Museum + Peter Viska: All Right Vegemite
A vibrant celebration of iconic Australian illustration, raising vital funds to keep the Cyril Callister Museum’s stories alive and thriving.
We Bleed The Same: KINSHIP
This is a vital Australian story about Stolen Generation survivor/ Wiradjuri woman, Brenda Matthews, forcibly removed from her Aboriginal birth parents & happy home at 2 years old & then forcibly removed from her much loved white family at 7 years of age. It’s a powerful story of resilience, love, loss, heartache & reconnection.
Windmill Production Company: Wag the tale with Windmill
Valerie, Windmill’s new work driven by toddlers’ imaginations and inspired by a local four-legged hero launches this AusArt Day.
Burrinja: Burrinja: Creativity Close to Home
Help keep creativity accessible, inclusive and close to home for communities across Melbourne's outer east.
Fremantle Press: Be Part of the Stories That Move Us
Help Fremantle Press create a new home, a hub for the stories that inspire, connect and move us.
Tamar Dolev: Pink Salad animation
PINK SALAD will be a vibrant animation, by artist Tamar Dolev and filmmaker Katrina Mathers, blending documentary, family and flavour.
Spaghetti Circus: Creative Kids. Strong Communities
Pass it on this AusArt Day. Join Spaghetti Circus to share creativity, confidence and belonging through challenges and matched giving.
Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Foundation: Beyond the Fair
Back First Nations artists, stories and culture. Support DAAF Foundation and ensure remote artists can generate meaningful income with pride.
Helpmann Academy: The Help Behind Helpmann
Every emerging creative has a story. Behind every opportunity is someone who helps make it possible.
Cinespace: Cinespace Production Fund
Fuel bold new films from Victoria’s emerging and under-represented storytellers by making 100% tax-deductible contributions through our Production Fund program.
Golden Thursdays: Acts of Swan Lake
Golden Thursdays is raising funds for its 2027 creative development program: 5 artists across 5 cities build choreographic material towards a major production
Metro Arts: ART STARTS HERE
Metro Arts emboldens artists to push boundaries, generate new ideas, create powerful work - WITH SUPPORT FROM PEOPLE LIKE YOU.
Small Ripples Theatre: Gold Mountain Wives 金山婆 Original Musical
Support Gold Mountain Wives, a new Australian musical bringing overlooked stories of migration, resilience and belonging to the stage.
Yeah Nah Theatre: Back the Artists, Build the Stage
This is your invitation! Back Queensland artists, build ambitious creative pathways, and help shape a thriving independent arts future.
Moveable Type Studio: Live & Loud: Letterpress Music Posters
Help our mobile letterpress studio reach Tamworth Country Music Festival 2027, printing gig posters live with emerging musicians.
Brink Productions: Brink's 30th Anniversary Fund
Brink turns 30. This AusArt Day, help fund our next 30 and see your donation doubled.
Branch Nebula: New Vision City – Indigenous Street Styles
Help six First Nations artists create bold new dance theatre driven by street dance, skateboarding, vogueing and roller skating.
Circus Ipswich: Bring More Circus to Ipswich
Help us bring more circus to Ipswich in 2027, creating opportunities for young people, audiences and Queensland circus artists.
Temperance Hall: Join the Temperance Hall Society
Our vision for Temperance Hall is working; sustaining it requires a collective.
Art Farm Birchs Bay: From Pump Shed to Bird Hide
Transforming an old pump shed into artistic, accessible bird hide and shelter, welcoming all ages and abilities to enjoy art in nature.
Chamber Made: Cultivating Practice: Chamber Made Development Programs
Chamber Made Artist and Artform Development Programs support artists to explore, research, extend and deepen their practice
The Home Stretch: Deep. Funny. Piano. Gay.: Tracking. Mixing. Master.
Deep. Funny. Piano. Gay. will provide support for tracking, mixing and mastering of Brendan Maclean's 3rd album with quality equipment and industry professionals.
Chamber Music Adelaide: Ten Years On. The Future Sounds Good.
As On the Terrace turns ten, help Chamber Music Adelaide continue to connect South Australians through shared, intimate music experiences.
photo access: Colour Darkroom fundraiser
This AusArt Day, support photo access's fundraising campaign to secure colour darkroom printing in Canberra.
Tutti Arts: Unstoppable On Our Terms
Rewriting the expectations our artists have been handed, on their own terms.
Gliese 504 by Stella Cella: Dye in Bloom : Hand-Dyed Silk Studies
Transforming my signature hand-dyed silk into sculptural forms, exploring how colour, movement and material can bloom beyond the wearable.
Collingwood Yards: Continuing Haring’s Legacy: Art for Everyone
Collingwood Yards shares its ethos of “art for everyone” through supporter Pandora Kay’s firsthand experience of Keith Haring’s practice.
Screen Illawarra: Screen Illawarra Mentoring Campaign
For every $1,000 raised, one emerging filmmaker will enjoy one years mentoring from an experienced filmmaker in the illawarra across 2027.
Art as Healing: Mokuhanga Residency in Japan
Promote the benefits of creativity for mental health by teaching skills learned at a residency in Japan in 2027
Chloe Wigg Art: Adapted
Adapted explores function gained / identity lost when Assistive Technology is prescribed, and how art helps fight medicalisation and regain ownership.
We acknowledge the many Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and honour their Elders past and present.
We respect their deep enduring connection to their lands, waterways, and surrounding clan groups since time immemorial. We cherish the richness of First Nations peoples’ artistic and cultural expressions. We are privileged to gather on this Country and to share knowledge, culture and art, now and with future generations.