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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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.
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.
Sarre & Simons: PRIMETIME The Musical: concept album
South Australian writers Sarre & Simons are fundraising to record and launch the concept album for their new musical PRIMETIME
Helpmann Academy: The Help Behind Helpmann
Every emerging creative has a story. Behind every opportunity is someone who helps make it possible.
Constance ARI: Make Space for Artists
Help Constance keep making space for artists to begin, experiment, take risks, build community, get paid, share ideas - in Tasmania.
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.
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.
Seno Ensemble: Seno Ensemble: Bridging Musical Worlds
Support an Australian-Indonesian musical exchange bringing musicians together to learn, collaborate and create new experimental music.
Sunari Sooriaaratchi: Let These Paintings Be Seen: The Work of Sunari Sooriaaratchi
Please help me show these works which have been created in the aftermath of family violence and workplace assault.
Ten Days on the Island Festival: The Kindling
Support Ten Days on the Island to develop the creative kindling found in communities across Lutruwita/Tasmania for Festival 2027.
ActNow Theatre: Celebrating 20 Years of ActNow Theatre
2027 marks 20 years of social justice theatre projects and championship of marginalised artists and their communities on Kaurna Yerta.
Cordite Poetry: Cordite Poetry Review
Your support helps us pay the contributing poets, editors and artists in our esteemed journal, Cordite Poetry Review.
The Lighthouse Toowoomba: Lighthouse, Camera, Action!
Help regional Queensland kids read, write and create with confidence.
Kimi Santos: Paint Again: Colour after Consumption
Help transform unwanted cosmetics into new artist materials, turning discarded colour into something creative, useful and unexpected.
Perth Symphony Orchestra: Raise Your Baton!
Too few women lead from the podium. Raise Your Baton changes that by putting a baton in her hand.
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.
Australian Vocal Ensemble - AVÉ: Behind Every New Song
Discover what it really takes to bring a new Australian song cycle to life and help make the next one possible.
Festival of Voices: A Voice for Every Young Tasmanian
Help young Tasmanians find their voice. Your gift brings singing opportunities to young people in every corner of the state.
James Batchelor and Collaborators: Notes of Self
Support the next chapter of Notes of Self as it tours internationally, connecting audiences of all ages through movement, imagination and shared discovery.
Sydney Non Objective Contemporary Art Projects: SNO Publications: Lyndon Dadswell DRAWING$ Fundraiser
SNO will be hosting an online exhibition of drawings by Australian sculptor Lyndon Dadswell (1908-1986).
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.
Ifa Shiddiq: World of Darwin: Spin-off Webcomic
Support a spin-off webcomic of ‘World of Darwin’, a project series involving character personifications of the Australian towns and cities.
The ELLA Foundation: The ELLA Foundation Connect Initiative
A national online initiative connecting First Nations young people, mentors and dance educators through fundraising, cultural learning and creative engagement.
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.
KINGS Artist-Run: Helping Artists Thrive
KINGS supports the presentation of critical and experimental projects through a dedicated mentorship model at pivotal points in artists’ journeys.
Valeria Alonso Children’s Album Campaign: Valeria Alonso: Children’s Album Campaign
A children’s album written in English and Spanish, featuring original songs that celebrate Latin American heritage and Australia’s multicultural spirit.
Rawcus Theatre Company Inc: Support Rawcus to create inclusive theatre
Rawcus creates exceptional theatre and arts experiences, nurtures a diverse ensemble of extraordinary artists and provides professional and career opportunities.
Canberra Choral Society: Voices in the House
Support a new Sally Whitwell choral work celebrating 75 years of Canberra Choral Society and Old Parliament House’s centenary.
Nawras Jabbar -Visual Artist: Empowering Human Stories Through Art
Raising funds to create and exhibit evocative figurative artworks that capture profound human emotions and resilience.
Utp: Fan Mail to Utp
Our love language is words of affirmation, but we also love to pay artists... Support for Utp is support for diverse artists. Your donation helps make art that reflects the diversity and complexity of this country.
PARKER Contemporary: Upgrade The Walls That Hold Our Work
Help PARKER Contemporary improve the gallery, from stronger exhibition walls to essential behind-the-scenes infrastructure, creating greater possibilities for years to come
SwaraSynthesis - One World Many Sounds: One World, Many Sounds
Support live music, cultural connection and creative collaboration through SwaraSynthesis performances bringing diverse musical traditions together.
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.