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. Scroll down to view this year's projects
UMI Arts - Preserving Culture: UMI Arts - Preserving Culture
UMI Arts' fundraising is to support artists development and foster community engagement.
Chamber Made: Cultivating Practice: Chamber Made Development Programs
Chamber Made Artist and Artform Development Programs support artists to explore, research, extend and deepen their practice
Great Southern Dance: Dance Commons: Move. Connect. Create. Belong.
MOVE like you. CONNECT in shared time and space. CREATE with agency. BELONG to each other and in the world.
Marrugeku: Ngurragabu
Support Ngurragabu [From the last night / next / tomorrow] as it premieres early next year— help bring this major new work to audiences while supporting the development of an emerging First Nations artist.
WestWords: Booktober: Make Room for More Stories
Read what you love and help young people across Western Sydney and regional NSW find their voice through stories.
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.
Access2Arts: Access2Arts - Access4All
Help us increase access and visibility for disabled artists by supporting Access2Arts.
Kuranda Amphitheatre Society: Amplify the Ampi
Owning our own sound equipment means more live events, lower production costs and greater opportunities for local artists and our community.
Vacant Assembly: Funding The Occupy Residency 2027-2028
Raising funds for artists to occupy more space: studio space, materials, exhibitions and public engagement.
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
Perfomring Lines: Sampai Take Sampai
A living, breathing, evolving performance installation by artists Jumaadi and Michael Toisuta exploring migration, displacement and the environment.
Amin Eskandarieh: Reviving the Ancient Saggar Technique
I am raising funds to create new ceramic works, develop my Saggar firing practice, and share this ancient technique with audiences in Australia.
Arthur Inc: PLANT A SEED
For seven years, Arthur has made room for artists, ideas and creative experiments that might otherwise have nowhere to go. This AusArt Day, Arthur and Cass need your help to keep the doors open and the creativity flowing.
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory: Support conservation of unique Balinese storycloth
MAGNT seeks donors to support the conservation of a beautiful storycloth, created using a no longer practiced Balinese textile tradition.
NT Writers Centre: Cake and Balloons
We are turning 30! Help us organise the best party of the year to celebrate writing, books and storytelling.
Milk Crate Theatre: StoryLab: Storylab: Your Support. Their Story. Centre Stage.
StoryLab empowers people with lived experience of homelessness, disability and mental health challenges to explore, develop and share their stories creatively.
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.
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.
Charlee Watt: Charlee Watt: Somebody Groovy
Be part of creating "Somebody Groovy", a new cabaret celebrating the music, women and cultural revolution of the 60's and 70's.
Ararat Gallery TAMA: Grow the TAMA Collection
Funds raised will purchase new artworks by living artists, ensuring the TAMA Collection remains dynamic, inclusive, and reflective of contemporary practice.
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.
Canberra Burlesque Academy: Keep the Stage Open
Help us keep donation-based burlesque, dance and drag classes open to people facing financial barriers.
WA Young Artists Chamber Music Program: WAYACOMP 2026
Established in 2019, WAYACOMP is WA's only competition for young people that is purely dedicated to chamber music. The competition offers exciting cash prizes to students to inspire and reward the efforts of young musicians working together.
Canberra Youth Theatre: New Stories, Young Voices for 2027
Help bring CYT's 2027 season to life. We're back onstage with over 35+ opportunities for professional, emerging and young artists.
Ashwe: Reflect Insect Art Magazine
Visual Artist Ashwe is traveling to make a magazine on the topic of abstract generative art and dark extinction while exploring art practices abroad.
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.
Brandt Kakulas & Zach Dakis: The Ones Who Stay - Film
The Ones Who Stay is an independent feature film exploring grief, ambition, family, and the people who shape us.
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.
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
The Old Ambulance Station: Boost Creativity at the Old Ambo
Your support means The Old Ambo can continue to support the Artists that make up our vibrant creative community.
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.
Tantrum Youth Arts: 50 Years of Impact
Celebrate Tantrum’s legacy and help secure our future: providing transformative arts experiences and breaking down barriers for another 50 years.
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.