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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Broad Encounters: Bring The Last Salon to Life
Help take The Last Salon from creative development to rehearsal and its first public pilot presentation.
Gasworks Creative Precinct: Revelry: help Gasworks artists celebrate milestone
Gasworks is raising $15,000 for our 15 resident artists to celebrate our 40th birthday with a group exhibition Revelry.
Helpmann Academy: The Help Behind Helpmann
Every emerging creative has a story. Behind every opportunity is someone who helps make it possible.
South West Music Regional Conservatorium: Strengthen rural music education
South West Music Regional Conservatorium is arguably the most isolated conservatorium in NSW
Australian Centre for the Moving Image: ACMI School Access Fund
Every child deserves the opportunity to learn, create and be inspired. The School Access Fund supports schools with transport and education program costs.
Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company: Boya Winyang Yanginy (Money New Giving)
Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company will engage with existing & new donors through social media, emails, & phone to maximise support for Blak theatre in WA.
Creativity Australia & With One Voice choirs: With One Voice inclusive community choirs
With One Voice is a national network of inclusive community choirs which brings communities together to experience joy and connection.
CircoBats: Circus for everybody, everywhere
Every emerging circus artist needs support to participate, and a place to perform. Help CircoBats create both, through scholarships, community workshops and performances across South Australia.
Bukjeh: One Last Lullaby
Support the development of One Last Lullaby, Bukjeh’s Palestinian theatre and documentary work, exploring motherhood, displacement, memory, loss and the care rituals of care we carry from homeland.
Griffith University Art Museum: Make Pep Talks Happen
Support GUAM Pep Talks, connecting established artists with students and emerging creatives through inspiring conversations, mentorship, and career insights.
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.
Australian Dance Party: Keep dance alive in the heart of Canberra!
Help keep artists employed, visible, and thriving in Canberra. Every dollar powers the future of the arts in the ACT.
Kate Shaw: Studio & Community Workshop Space
A purpose-built studio converted from an existing shed, grounding a 20+ year practice in large-scale acrylic pour and resin works exploring geology and landscape. Beyond the studio's primary role as a working art space, it will host community workshops in drawing, colour and process.
Richie Valentino: Green for All
An animated film which explores social difference, impossible love and the exposure to a living entity that connects them all.
Melbourne Chamber Orchestra: Sounding the Horn: A Concerto for MCO
Help MCO bring a bold new horn concerto to life by Andrew Ford OAM, written for soloist Carla Blackwood.
Duprada Dance Company: Sunsets & Soliloquies: Territory Touring 2027
Duprada’s 2027 NT tour showcases original classical and contemporary works choreographed by NT artists Lynne Hanton, Erin Selleck, Miriam Nicholls and Leisa Jackson.
Kimi Santos: Paint Again: Colour after Consumption
Help transform unwanted cosmetics into new artist materials, turning discarded colour into something creative, useful and unexpected.
Metro Arts: ART STARTS HERE
Metro Arts emboldens artists to push boundaries, generate new ideas, create powerful work - WITH SUPPORT FROM PEOPLE LIKE YOU.
4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art: 30 for 30: Double Happiness Club
Join 4A’s Double Happiness Club: donate $30, bring a friend, and double the support for the next generation.
Bad Company Theatre: Keeping compassionate theatre alive
Help us fund our 2027 season and keep ambitious, compassionate indie theatre alive in Hobart
Australian Plays Transform: Erin Thomas Regional Playwrights Fund
Support regional playwrights to develop new Australian plays, strengthen their practice and form connections across the wider Australian theatre sector.
Affinity Quartet: Affinity Quartet Unlimited Academy (AQUA)
Affinity Quartet Unlimited Academy responds to a gap in Australia’s chamber music training, fostering the talent of aspiring string quartets.
Alice Hurwood: Help Alice Hurwood record an album!
Help award-winning Australian singer-songwriter and cellist Alice Hurwood record and produce her next album.
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.
Sunshine Coast’s Regional Gallery, Caloundra: Give Creativity a Future
Help make art happen by supporting creative opportunities across the Sunshine Coast’s region for the next generation of artists.
Megalo Print Studio: Amplify voices through art
Create a space for artists to share their voice with vital upgrades to one of Australia’s only print galleries.
Poetry Sydney: Sydney Poetry Picnic
Support the Sydney Poetry Picnic, a celebration of community, creativity and the poetic voices that shape Sydney and New South Wales.
Ararat Gallery TAMA: Grow the TAMA Collection
Funds raised will purchase new artworks by living artists, ensuring the TAMA Collection remains dynamic, inclusive, and reflective of contemporary practice.
Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF): CIAF 2027 Superhighway Fund: The Blue Highway
Help CIAF artists cross the Blue Highway to Hong Kong — carrying Queensland First Nations art to new shores.
Arafura Music Collective- New Art Music Commissions: NT Perspectives - New Art Music Fund
Support Bach Bounce! as Brandenburg No. 3 reimagined through urban dance, igniting an intergenerational, high-energy wave of Territory-made artistic brilliance.
Monthly Poet Live: Help Us Take the Show on Tour
After two big nights at Melbourne Fringe, help us create more poets.
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.
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.