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
Hermannsburg Potters: Support Hermannansburg Potters Build Their Future
We're building a new fit-for-purpose art centre for Western Aranda artists, big enough to hold our dreams.
Maya Dove: "Desirable, Considering" by Maya Dove. Development Workshop.
Help take 'Desirable, Considering' into its next stage of professional development.
Perth Symphony Orchestra: Raise Your Baton!
Too few women lead from the podium. Raise Your Baton changes that by putting a baton in her hand.
Storyvox: The Electric Love Fest Project
Australian Giant Cuttlefish - spectacular, fascinating, very groovy - help us bring their unique story of wonder, vulnerability and hope to the world.
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.
PAC Australia: Inaugural First Nations Presenter Training Program
The First Nations Presenter Training Program, in partnership with arts leader Angela Flynn, to develop First Nations performing arts programmers.
Moogahlin Performing Arts Creative Development Fund: Step up to the Stage, IMIGO!
Jacob Boehme’s IMIGO is booked to premiere in 2027. Help fund its final development to Step Up to the Stage.
Topology Music: Sound of Our Place
Sound of Our Place is a community-led commissioning project, contributing to a growing collection of community voices from across Queensland.
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.
Art in Abundance: Fund Open Studios: Art in Abundance: Fund Open Studios
Margaret River Region Open Studios: Art in Abundance funds the coaching, mentoring and support to help 150 regional artists thrive.
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.
Platform Arts: 30 YEARS OF PLATFORM ARTS
For 30 years, Platform Arts has backed artists and ambitious ideas in Geelong. Now we need to invest in the next 30 years.
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.
Fossil & Fable: Fossil & Fable: Where Science, Storytelling and Creativity Meet
Fossil & Fable is an educational resource enterprise that creates engaging learning experiences through storytelling, illustration, science communication, and creative exploration.
Art of Courage Ukraine: Art of Courage - Melbourne Season
Art of Courage is an immersive theatre play exploring Ukrainian identity, courage, war, memory, culture and human connection.
Metro Arts: ART STARTS HERE
Metro Arts emboldens artists to push boundaries, generate new ideas, create powerful work - WITH SUPPORT FROM PEOPLE LIKE YOU.
The Torch Project: Be a Future Dreamer
Be a Future Dreamer and stand with First Nations artists as they envision a new future for themselves
Branch Nebula: New Vision City – Indigenous Street Styles
Help six First Nations artists create bold new dance theatre driven by street dance, skateboarding, vogueing and roller skating.
CuriousWorks: Fund Creative First Aid
Support CuriousWorks to keep offering creative first aid; nurturing moments and sites for emotional resonance and connection, creativity and community.
ReAction Theatre: Secret of the Raft
WE’RE ALMOST THERE! HELP US BRING 'SECRET OF THE RAFT' TO THE STAGE.
photo access: Colour Darkroom fundraiser
This AusArt Day, support photo access's fundraising campaign to secure colour darkroom printing in Canberra.
Creatives Inc: FREEDOM: Revolution Joy!
FREEDOM is an immersive, multi-disciplinary arts project curated by Lisa Behan for Creatives Inc. The project addresses the heavy realities of domestic violence and coercive control, transforming experiences of trauma into a powerful collective reclamation of feminine liberty. The project is created to highlight women's strength, regional creative practitioners, and the broader community.
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.
National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA): Support NAVA’s work for artists
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.
Patch Theatre: The Glimmer Society
Patch Theatre will establish The Glimmer Society - a brand new curated donor circle supporting the early creative development of new work.
Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company: Boya Winyang Yanginy (Money New Giving)
Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company will engage with existing & new donors through social media, emails, & phone to maximise support for Blak theatre in WA.
Tent City: A New Face: Build a Tent for Tent City
Build a Tent for Tent City and help amplify lived experiences of homelessness through inclusive theatre, storytelling and community connection.
Melbourne Youth Orchestras (MYO): MYO Needs a Flugel Horn
We've been frugal but can't afford a Flugel!
Belvoir St Theatre: Belvoir Busy Bee is back - but this time, we’re rebuilding.
Our workshop was lost, but our Busy Bees kept going! This AusArt Day, every donation will be doubled to help us rebuild, recover and keep the show on the road.
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.
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.
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.