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Investment and
development

Angela Goh, Desert Body Creep, photo by Zan Wimberley.

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Australian Cultural Fund

A fundraising platform for Australian artists. Upload your project, start your fundraising campaign and invite art lovers and supporters to donate with 100% of donations going directly towards your creative project.

australianculturalfund.org.au
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National Arts and Disability Awards

Closing Date:

July 9, 2024 3:00 pm (AEST)

The National Arts and Disability Awards celebrate the work and achievements of d/Deaf and disabled Australian artists.

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Arts and Disability Initiative

Closing Date:

July 9, 2024 3:00 pm (AEST)

$30,000

These grants provide support for significant projects to extend arts practice, networks, skills, and ambition.

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Mordant Family x Creative Australia: Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome

Closing Date:

August 6, 2024 3:00 pm (AEST)

A two-month residency in Rome open to established visual artists with a significant record of exhibitions in public institutions and galleries.

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HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme

Closing Date:

August 6, 2024 3:00 pm (AEST)

With $12,500 in funding, this three-month residency program offers time and space for open-ended research and experimentation.

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Open

Become a Peer Assessor

Closing Date:

August 6, 2024 3:00 pm (AEST)

We’re accepting applications for people to join our Pool of Peers starting January 2025.

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Open

Delivery Partner: Disability Arts Services

Closing Date:

August 6, 2024 3:00 pm (AEST)

Creative Australia invites organisations to submit a proposal to support specific arts and disability arts services, drawing on those identified in the research on arts and disability needs and opportunities commissioned by Creative Australia in 2023.

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Open

Delivery Partner: Climate Action Services

Closing Date:

August 6, 2024 3:00 pm (AEST)

Creative Australia invites organisations to submit a proposal to deliver national services that support a sustainable, climate responsive actions for the Australian arts sector and Australian communities.

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Open

Creative Futures Fund: Development Investment

Closing Date:

August 6, 2024 3:00 pm (AEST)

Creative Futures Fund: Development Investment can support the creation and testing of new ideas and works, the establishment of new partnerships, collaborations and skills to lay the foundations for future delivery.

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Open

Creative Futures Fund: Delivery Investment

Closing Date:

August 6, 2024 3:00 pm (AEST)

Creative Futures Fund: Delivery Investment will bring new Australian stories to life so people can engage with and experience them.

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Closed

Playing Australia Project Investment

Playing Australia Project Investment supports performing arts tours to reach regional and remote communities across Australia.

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Closed

Fellowships

$80,000

Creative Australia Fellowships of $80,000 support outstanding, established artists’ or arts workers’ creative activity and professional development for a period of up to two years.

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Closing soon

National Arts and Disability Awards

The National Arts and Disability Awards celebrate the work and achievements of d/Deaf and disabled Australian artists.
Closing soon

Arts and Disability Initiative

$30,000

These grants provide support for significant projects to extend arts practice, networks, skills, and ambition.
Open

Mordant Family x Creative Australia: Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome

A two-month residency in Rome open to established visual artists with a significant record of exhibitions in public institutions and galleries.
Open

HIAP – Helsinki International Artist Programme

With $12,500 in funding, this three-month residency program offers time and space for open-ended research and experimentation.
Open

Become a Peer Assessor

We’re accepting applications for people to join our Pool of Peers starting January 2025.
Open

Delivery Partner: Disability Arts Services

Creative Australia invites organisations to submit a proposal to support specific arts and disability arts services, drawing on those identified in the research on arts and disability needs and opportunities commissioned by Creative Australia in 2023. 
Open

Delivery Partner: Climate Action Services

Creative Australia invites organisations to submit a proposal to deliver national services that support a sustainable, climate responsive actions for the Australian arts sector and Australian communities.