ArtsPay joined by Australian Cultural Fund to support alternative funding model for the arts

The Australian Cultural Fund is the first government agency to join ArtsPay, a payment processing platform that shares profits with the arts.
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ArtsPay is an Australian payment processing company that serves the local arts industry, with 50% of its profits generated from transaction fees directed to artists and small arts organisations via the ArtsPay Foundation.

The platform has been picked up by organisations including Sydney Contemporary art fair, Melbourne International Film Festival, Darwin Festival, Australian Booksellers Association and Australian Music Association, and has now established a new partnership with the Australian Cultural Fund (ACF), a crowdsourced fundraising platform for artists operated by Creative Australia.

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Celina Lei is the Diversity and Inclusion Editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Most recently, Celina was one of three Australian participants in DFAT’s the Future of Leadership program. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_