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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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.
Karim Konrad: We Are Seen
A photographic and painted portrait series exploring LGBTQIA+ people, identities and lived experiences across Australia.
Gasworks Creative Precinct: Revelry: help Gasworks artists celebrate milestone
Gasworks is raising $15,000 for our 15 resident artists to celebrate our 40th birthday with a group exhibition Revelry.
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.
LIQUID ARCHITECTURE SOUND INC: Support Liquid Architecture
On the (radical) edges of sound
words2screen™: A Pair of Shorts!
Help bring two Australian short films to life—Creative Australia matches every dollar you give 1:1 on AusArt Day!
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
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.
Ausdance ACT Youth Dance Festival 2026 The Metaverse: A day on the road with a Youth Dance Festival Mentor
Our campaign will help build awareness about the benefits of co creative dance for young people, working towards professional presentation in a leading Australian arts centre
un Projects: Support un Extended's Editor-in-Residence
This campaign supports our un Extended Editor-in-Residence (EiR) initiative, providing emerging arts writers with paid mentorship, commissioning, and publication opportunities, while platforming and reviewing Australian exhibitions.
The Story Society Bendigo: Let's pay authors a fair rate!
The Story Society wants to pay each visiting author ASA rates and we require your assistance to do so.
Australian Centre for the Moving Image: ACMI School Access Fund
Every child deserves the opportunity to learn, create and be inspired. The School Access Fund supports schools with transport and education program costs.
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!
Circus Oz: The loved Melba Spiegeltent needs support
We are fundraising to replace the canopy (ceiling) of the 116-year-old Melba Spiegeltent, the much-loved venue that has been part of Melbourne's arts community for sixteen years.
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?
Affirming Access: Create, Connect, Belong
Help us create free, inclusive arts experiences where LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent and disabled people can create, connect and belong.
CARRRY: CARRRY: Curating Together
A curator-run initiative supporting collective learning, experimentation and exchange across Sydney’s independent arts community.
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!
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.
Centre for Stories: Help Centre for Stories thrive
Support Centre for Stories to nurture diverse voices, connect communities and keep storytelling thriving in Western Australia.
Futureative: Bring our creative conferences to life
Help bring three online conferences for independent creatives to life, showcasing Australian creatives and exploring the future of creative work.
Band Together Foundation: Band Together Appeal: Give Children Music!
Help us put instruments in children's hands and tutors in their schools, so no child misses out on music.
Australian Plays Transform: Erin Thomas Regional Playwrights Fund
Support regional playwrights to develop new Australian plays, strengthen their practice and form connections across the wider Australian theatre sector.
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.
Backbone Youth Arts: Boost Backbone's Building
Help us transform Backbone Youth Arts' venue space to give emerging artists an upgraded, accessible and low-cost home for their creative practice.
Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios: Keep Lane Cove's Creative Hub Thriving
For over 50 years we've brought art and creativity to our community. This AusArt Day, help refresh our ceramics studio.
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.
Tutti Arts: Unstoppable On Our Terms
Rewriting the expectations our artists have been handed, on their own terms.
The Awesome Black Foundation: The Voices Rising Fund
Supporting Blak creators and shaping opportunities for community
Collingwood Yards: Continuing Haring’s Legacy: Art for Everyone
Collingwood Yards shares its ethos of “art for everyone” through supporter Pandora Kay’s firsthand experience of Keith Haring’s practice.
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.
CircoBats: Circus for everybody, everywhere
Every emerging circus artist needs support to participate, and a place to perform. Help CircoBats create both, through scholarships, community workshops and performances across South Australia.
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.