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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Tracks: Radically Local Performing Arts
Tracks is deeply rooted in the NT arts landscape. Water us regularly to help our creative ecosystem flourish!
Guildhouse: Catapult Creativity
Catapult Creativity will funds for Guildhouse’s flagship Catapult Mentorship Program, enabling South Australian artists to access transformative, paid, artist-led mentorships.
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.
Perth International Jazz Festival: Swing Into Action with Perth International Jazz Festival
Help Perth International Jazz Festival keep ticket prices down, support local artists and plan for the future.
Clown Doctors Australia – Arts in Health: The Art of Healthcare Clowning
Celebrating healthcare clowning as an artform that brings creativity and joy to children, older people and healthcare professionals in hospital.
Access2Arts: Access2Arts - Access4All
Help us increase access and visibility for disabled artists by supporting Access2Arts.
Green Music Australia: Building Climate Action Through Music
Help artists take climate action by providing the resources, opportunities and support they need to create change through music.
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.
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.
Kickstart Arts: Creativity for Everyone: Community Arts Access
Help us give more Tasmanians access to the connection, confidence and belonging that creativity brings, regardless of the barriers they may face.
Central Goldfields Art Gallery: Help us grow and develop
Donations will be used to acquire new artworks by Central Victorian artists, for the enrichment of local residents and visitors.
River City Voices: River City Voices - Amplify Our Voices!
Are you uplifted by the sound of united voices? Do you want the world to recognise Western Sydney as the cultural changemaker we know it is? Then don’t let Western Sydney’s flagship choir, River City Voices, be silenced!
Ballarat International Foto Biennale: I ♥ Foto: See the World Differently
Help young Victorians see the world through photography. Your donation supports free photography experiences for regional students.
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.
The Lighthouse Toowoomba: Lighthouse, Camera, Action!
Help regional Queensland kids read, write and create with confidence.
The Richard Divall Program, Melbourne Opera: Invest in opera's future
Melbourne Opera's Richard Divall artists share video introductions across AusArt Day, inviting donations to fund their next production.
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.
Newcastle Fringe Festival: Every Artist Deserves a Stage
Every donation helps an artist take the stage by removing barriers to participation at Newcastle Fringe Festival.
Louise King Cello Dreaming: Cello Dreaming Solo Album New Works
Eight new works. One cello. Twelve hours. $2,000. Help me make some musical magic happen!
HotHouse Theatre: The Galah Bar @ HotHouse's 2027 birthday
HotHouse turns 30 in 2027. To celebrate we're bringing back the legendary comedy and cabaret icon 'The Galah Bar'
Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre: Put money where your art is
Arts and culture bring communities together. Art inspires us, challenges us, preserves our stories, and, most importantly create spaces where everyone can belong. These experiences don't happen by chance, they happen when communties choose to support them.
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.
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.
Ensemble Offspring: Hatched Academy: Composer & Performer Intensive
Support the next phase of Ensemble Offspring’s acclaimed Hatched Academy as it expands into a dynamic Composer & Performer Intensive.
Screen Illawarra: Screen Illawarra Mentoring Campaign
For every $1,000 raised, one emerging filmmaker will enjoy one years mentoring from an experienced filmmaker in the illawarra across 2027.
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.
Chloe Wigg Art: Adapted
Adapted explores function gained / identity lost when Assistive Technology is prescribed, and how art helps fight medicalisation and regain ownership.
Access Arts - Undercover Artist Festival: Cause a Commotion - Undercover Artist Festival
Elevate disabled and d/Deaf artists by causing a Commotion. Every donation supports our development program and secures Undercover Artist Festival’s future.
Eternal River: Listening Before the Opera
Eternal River is a major new work, inviting voices traditionally left at the edges of opera into its creation.
Glitter Martini: Under The Big Cabana
An all-ages circus show celebrating Australia’s greatest public space, Under The Big Cabana is the newest creation from Glitter Martini.
Storyfest: Give a Book. Grow a Story.
Help us put 200 books into young hands, inspiring children to read, imagine, create and begin writing stories of their own.
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.
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.