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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Post Office Projects Gallery and Studios: Donate to POP for AusArt Day
By donating to POP, you’ll support exhibitions, studios, and events that elevate artists’ careers and connect them with new audiences.
The Lighthouse Toowoomba: Lighthouse, Camera, Action!
Help regional Queensland kids read, write and create with confidence.
Benjamin Paul: Carry 'waynapuni pools' forward
Help carry a bathhouse made from wrecked cars into its next life, sustaining the artists, young people and cultural relationships that make 'waynapuni pools' possible.
Ayda Akbal: On Moving To A Place
What happens when you move somewhere to follow your dreams, only to find that place seemingly falling apart around you?
Healing Word Studio: Help Us Revolutionise Our Motion Capture!
Help Healing Word Studio buy a Rokoko Coil Pro: Precise motion capture for 3D hand animation.
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.
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.
Frontyard Projects: Finding (and Funding) *BreathingSpace*
*BreathingSpace* is the amount of time that Frontyard could survive without further income, based on current expenses. Let's expand it!
Maya Dove: "Desirable, Considering" by Maya Dove. Development Workshop.
Help take 'Desirable, Considering' into its next stage of professional development.
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).
StorySALOON: Championing writers, growing audiences
StorySALOON brings Australian short stories onto the stage—and to readers and listeners across Australia.
Christopher Gurusamy: Christopher Gurusamy
Help me build the next chapter of Bharatanatyam in Australia
Choral Institute Melbourne (chime): 25th World Choir Games Participation
Chime is raising funds to represent Australia at 2027 World Choir Games in Austria for the 25th anniversary celebrations. As the only Australian choir to compete at the inaugural World Choir Games in 2000 and a Gold Medal-winning choir at the 2024 Games in Auckland, we are proud to continue our tradition of international excellence by competing in the prestigious Champions Section
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.
Creative Hearts Co.: Help Us Step Into the Outdoors
Help us add steps connecting our deck to our beautiful outdoor space, creating easier access for community activities and events.
CKTFest Hilltops: CKTFest Hilltops
This project will bring together children’s authors directly to the Hilltops NSW to deliver high-energy literary experiences to rural students.
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.
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.
SALA Festival Artist Engagement Fund: Give $30 for SALA#30
Create paid opportunities for SA Artists. Help shape artist-led tours and events at SALA#30 in 2027.
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.
LOHF: Cultural Heritage & Creative Education Collection
Help preserve community stories and support creative workshops that connect generations through art, music, food and memory.
Bad Company Theatre: Keeping compassionate theatre alive
Help us fund our 2027 season and keep ambitious, compassionate indie theatre alive in Hobart
TarraWarra Museum of Art: Support the landmark 10th TarraWarra Biennial 2027: This Hand of Mine
Believe in Australian art and support the creation of new artworks for TarraWarra Biennial 2027.
Tutti Arts: Unstoppable On Our Terms
Rewriting the expectations our artists have been handed, on their own terms.
Continuo Founders’ Fund: Fund the MICMC Piano Trio Commission
Fund the commission of a new piano trio by Nicole Brady for the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition.
Mirabilis Collective: Her Sound, Her Story Together
Help bring two regional communities together through the songs and stories of women.
Studio1 Micro Arts Precinct: Champion Brisbane's Independent Dance Artists
Studio1 gives Brisbane's independent dance and body-based artists room to grow. Go behind the scenes and help fund what's next.
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.
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.
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.
New England Bach Festival: Young Musicians Program 2027
Enable young musicians to attend the Festival with subsidised tickets and participate in workshops and masterclasses with NEBF’s guest artists.
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.