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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Heritage Hands: Living Heritage
Supporting artists and artisans while documenting, celebrating and sharing the skills, stories and knowledge that form Australia’s living heritage.
Regional Arts Victoria: Make regional art happen
Make Regional Art Happen is raising $20,000 to help fund a Small Halls Commission, creating an opportunity for a regional Victorian community and a local artist or creative organisation to come together to develop and present a brand-new work, made in and for their community.
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.
LOHF: Cultural Heritage & Creative Education Collection
Help preserve community stories and support creative workshops that connect generations through art, music, food and memory.
Na Djinang Circus: Making Blak Circus Artists
We’re raising funds to deliver Making Tracks — a Training and Development program for emerging First Nations circus artists and arts workers.
The Wheeler Centre: Support Australia's Future Stories
Support the next wave of writers to tell the Australian stories that are not already being told.
Perfomring Lines: Sampai Take Sampai
A living, breathing, evolving performance installation by artists Jumaadi and Michael Toisuta exploring migration, displacement and the environment.
Tura: Support the next 10 years of Sound FX
Support the next generation of Kimberley artists.
Christopher Gurusamy: Christopher Gurusamy
Help me build the next chapter of Bharatanatyam in Australia
Arts OutWest Cultural Fund: So Much More than a donation
Your donation supports so much more than a local arts project, a weekly workshop or a micro grant.
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
APHIDS: Support APHIDS make new work
We want to keep APHIDS artist run, artist centred and support our artistic community
Liz Lea Creates and Maitree House: ALTER - a Virtual Reality experience
ALTER is an Austral/Asian collaboration. Design and dance collide in a double-bill exploring the interplay between body, identity and cross-cultural exchange.
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.
Boomalli Aboriginal Artist’s Co-operative: Boomalli 40 Year Anniversary Mural
Help Boomalli create a landmark 100 meter mural celebrating 40 years, continuing our legacy of amplifying NSW Aboriginal art and artists.
Diversity Arts Australia: Every Voice In The Room
Every voice deserves a seat at the table. Your donation breaks geographic barriers, helping culturally and racially marginalised leaders shape Australia’s creative future.
Red Chair – The Keeper Project: Keep a Keeper: Digital Library
45 Keepers. 4 communities. 7 years. 1000's of Sunshine Coast stories. Help us create a permanent digital home for the Keeper Project.
Luminescence Children's Choir: Support Luminescence Children's Choir!
Support Canberra's Luminescence Children's Choir - your gift today funds bursaries, camps, new music and tours for young singers!
KXT/bAKEHOUSE - KXT ON BROADWAY: Thankyou KXT!
We're celebrating the artists who shaped KXT over the past 10 years - and securing opportunities for the next generation.
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.
AMEB Ltd: Music Education Without Barriers
Help regional, remote and First Nations music teachers take part in transformative professional learning opportunities and strengthen their communities.
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.
Bad Company Theatre: Keeping compassionate theatre alive
Help us fund our 2027 season and keep ambitious, compassionate indie theatre alive in Hobart
SPC: Collective Voices for the Future: Collective Voices for the Future
Add your voice to help SPC expand opportunities for emerging artists shaping the future of Australian choral music with us.
Isabella Gerometta: Commission Sia’s Chandelier, reimagined for Muses Trio
Be part of Isabella Gerometa’s new arrangement for Muses Trio’s Her Australian Songbook, celebrating iconic songs by Australian female pop artists, ready for studio recording and national touring 2027.
LIQUID ARCHITECTURE SOUND INC: Support Liquid Architecture
On the (radical) edges of sound
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.
Regional Youth Orchestra NSW: Supprort Regional Youth Orchestra NSW
Support Regional Youth Orchestra NSW and help talented young musicians from regional communities access exceptional orchestral experiences, mentorship and performance opportunities.
Upswell Publishing: Take a chance on poetry!
Australia is the home to a remarkable array of poets. I'm enthusiastically looking to recruit new readers for their books!
CARRRY: CARRRY: Curating Together
A curator-run initiative supporting collective learning, experimentation and exchange across Sydney’s independent arts community.
Proto-Productions: The Next Generation of Artisan Filmmakers
Celebrating human-led art. Celebrating Australian stories. Celebrating all forms of visual media.
iZZY iBiS (Brendan Penzer): iZZY iBiS New Body of Work
Contribute to the creation of a new body of work by iZZY iBiS to be exhibited in 2028.
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.