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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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.
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.
Hunter Writers' Centre: Lighthouse Arts: Five Years of Stories
Help write the next chapter.
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.
Vacant Assembly: Funding The Occupy Residency 2027-2028
Raising funds for artists to occupy more space: studio space, materials, exhibitions and public 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.
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.
Tura: Support the next 10 years of Sound FX
Support the next generation of Kimberley artists.
photo access: Colour Darkroom fundraiser
This AusArt Day, support photo access's fundraising campaign to secure colour darkroom printing in Canberra.
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
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.
Compañía Pepa Molina: Double the Impact for Emerging Flamenco Artists
Empowering emerging Western Sydney Flamenco artists through professional mentorship, live music training and performance opportunities — from studio to stage.
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.
Heirlume Productions: Season 2027-2028
Help us raise funds to present Heirlume's next season of theatrical gems
Flinders Quartet: FQ Pathways, mentoring the next generation
Help Flinders Quartet launch the next generation of string quartet musicians and build FQ Sessions into Melbourne's home for string quartets.
KXT/bAKEHOUSE - KXT ON BROADWAY: Thankyou KXT!
We're celebrating the artists who shaped KXT over the past 10 years - and securing opportunities for the next generation.
Spaghetti Circus: Creative Kids. Strong Communities
Pass it on this AusArt Day. Join Spaghetti Circus to share creativity, confidence and belonging through challenges and matched giving.
Red Chair – The Keeper Project: Keep a Keeper: Digital Library
45 Keepers. 4 communities. 7 years. 1000's of Sunshine Coast stories. Help us create a permanent digital home for the Keeper Project.
Community Music Victoria: Growing Community Music
Spread the social, health and cultural benefits of participatory music through our proven GCM model of locally responsive programs.
Richie Valentino: Green for All
An animated film which explores social difference, impossible love and the exposure to a living entity that connects them all.
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.
Sarah Barton and Liz Burke: Stella: I Am Not Your Inspiration
A feature documentary about the life of comedian and disability activist Stella Young.
Sprung Dance Theatre: Support Sprung Dance Theatre's annual event
Dis-Co Ball: Sprung's annual celebration of people with Disability in the Northern Rivers
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre: Adopt A Puppet
This AusArt Day, adopt a puppet! Become a Puppet Parent and help bring stories to WA families, from just $75.
The Cannery Arts Centre: Upgrade our Print Room!
We are seeking support to revive our Print Room, an important space within our regional arts centre.
Sydney Non Objective Contemporary Art Projects: SNO Publications: Lyndon Dadswell DRAWING$ Fundraiser
SNO will be hosting an online exhibition of drawings by Australian sculptor Lyndon Dadswell (1908-1986).
Shopfront Arts Co-op: Shopfront: 50 Years of Community
For 50 years, generations have called Shopfront home. Give more Young People the chance to experience the magic of Shopfront.
Talent Development Project: Talent Has No Postcode
Your donation will help support equitable access for extraordinary talent across regional NSW
Newcastle Writers Festival: Become Part of the Story
Your gift helps Newcastle Writers Festival support wellbeing, inspire young readers and spark the conversations that shape our city.
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.
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.
Melbourne Theatre Company: Transform young lives through theatre
Help young people access life-changing theatre experiences, creative learning opportunities, and pathways to a brighter future through MTC Education.
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.