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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Canberra International Music Festival: Support Canberra International Music Festival
AusArt Day kickstarts CIMF's fundraising campaign for the 2027 festival - support us now to help bring the festival life!
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.
Fossil & Fable: Fossil & Fable: Where Science, Storytelling and Creativity Meet
Fossil & Fable is an educational resource enterprise that creates engaging learning experiences through storytelling, illustration, science communication, and creative exploration.
Restless Dance Theatre: Restless Dance Theatre: Enough
Restless Dance Theatre is creating Enough a powerful new work by Artistic Director Michelle Ryan, placing disabled and neurodivergent artists at the centre of a conversation about identity, belonging, self-worth and what it means to live authentically.
Uncle Mark Brown - Dreaming Spirit: Three Cultures, One Country
Support Bunurong-led collaboration through visual art, storytelling and performance, connecting Bunurong, Māori and Indian cultural practitioners.
Australian Book Review: Support Australian Book Review
This fundraising campaign will help Australian Book Review continue to support freelance writers and the wider Australian literary community.
Sydney Film Festival: SFF Admit All
SFF Admit All is an initiative designed to remove barriers and welcome more diverse audiences to engage with the Festival.
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.
Marrugeku: Ngurragabu
Support Ngurragabu [From the last night / next / tomorrow] as it premieres early next year— help bring this major new work to audiences while supporting the development of an emerging First Nations artist.
The Unconformity: Support Our Ongoing Artists
Help us support our 3 Ongoing Artists: Stevie Battese, Iris Blazely and Nancy Mauro-Flude, as they embark on the creation of their respective works for our 2027 festival.
The Australian Ceramics Association: The Australian Ceramics Mentorship Program
Help us create a Mentorship Program that supports ceramicists and potters through paid, artist-led, knowledge sharing, and creative development.
Belvoir St Theatre: Belvoir Busy Bee is back - but this time, we’re rebuilding.
Our workshop was lost, but our Busy Bees kept going! This AusArt Day, every donation will be doubled to help us rebuild, recover and keep the show on the road.
Hunter Writers' Centre: Lighthouse Arts: Five Years of Stories
Help write the next chapter.
Corrugated Iron Youth Arts: Give to the Next Gen Now
Invest in life-changing creative opportunities for young Territorians. Together, we can shift headlines from crime into creativity, joy and possibility.
Hermannsburg Potters: Support Hermannansburg Potters Build Their Future
We're building a new fit-for-purpose art centre for Western Aranda artists, big enough to hold our dreams.
Karim Konrad: We Are Seen
A photographic and painted portrait series exploring LGBTQIA+ people, identities and lived experiences across Australia.
North Australian Festival of Arts: Make More Art Happen in the North!
Help create the next chapter of NAFA, bringing ambitious arts experiences to Townsville and North Queensland.
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.
OZNZ Encaustic CONNECT: OZNZ Encaustic Inaugural Art Exhibition
Support towards gallery fees and logistics costs for encaustic artists to participate in an encaustic-only exhibition in September 2027, in the Blue Mountains NSW.
Gamelan DanAnda: Gamelan DanAnda Youth Summer School
Help Gamelan DanAnda launch our Youth Summer School, connecting young Australians with Balinese music, dance, and culture.
Canberra Glassworks: Klaus Moje Projekt
Help bring two landmark works by Klaus Moje home to Canberra Glassworks, where his legacy lives on through the artists making here today.
Tantrum Youth Arts: 50 Years of Impact
Celebrate Tantrum’s legacy and help secure our future: providing transformative arts experiences and breaking down barriers for another 50 years.
Shock Therapy Arts: Annual Giving for Interstate Touring
Help us share the Shock Therapy! Your donation brings our award-winning Queensland-grown shows to the rest of the country.
GRID Series: Put the power into GRID
We areraising funds to broaden our activity and reach in order to provide our program to more communities around Austalia.
STRUT Dance: A Little More Dance
Help STRUT bring a little more dance to WA by supporting the independent artists, audiences and communities who make us move.
Always Good Nights: Good Nights: It's More Than Music
Help fund three months of Good Nights operations, building a stronger, more sustainable future for live music in regional WA.
Storyvox: The Electric Love Fest Project
Australian Giant Cuttlefish - spectacular, fascinating, very groovy - help us bring their unique story of wonder, vulnerability and hope to the world.
NT Writers Centre: Cake and Balloons
We are turning 30! Help us organise the best party of the year to celebrate writing, books and storytelling.
Art of Courage Ukraine: Art of Courage - Melbourne Season
Art of Courage is an immersive theatre play exploring Ukrainian identity, courage, war, memory, culture and human connection.
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
Open Space Contemporary Arts: Art for Everyone, Everywhere: Support OSCA
Bring participatory art projects to life! Support OSCA to connect artists and communities in creativity. Make art accessible for everyone.
Daisy Pring: Daisy Pring's sophomore EP 'Messy'
Pop/Rnb artist Daisy Pring is ready to break out of her small town on the South Coast with her second EP 'Messy'. The project will consist of 6 original tracks, all written in Sydney, NSW and will be accompanied by music videos, shot by Sydney based film duo Four:Three.
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.