501(c)(3) Public Charity · EIN 33-2353033

Art, survivorship, dignity, and community.

The Mabazza Foundation creates healing-centered art experiences, exhibitions, and community programs for people living through cancer, chronic illness, recovery, caregiving, grief, and the long weather of beginning again.

ArtEmotional works created around resilience, memory, and renewal.
CarePrograms and partnerships for survivor-centered support.
BostonCommunity events, exhibitions, and public-facing activations.
LegacyTurning survivorship into service, structure, and shared light.

Mission & Legacy

Healing is not only medical. It is emotional, visual, and communal.

The Mabazza Foundation was created from lived survivorship and the belief that art can change the emotional temperature of a room. A painting cannot solve illness, isolation, or grief, but it can make a space feel less clinical, less lonely, and more human.

Through original artwork, community exhibitions, silent auction partnerships, wellness programming, and survivor-centered storytelling, the Foundation turns beauty into care and care into structure.

Heart in Color, expressive painting with a figure surrounded by bright color
Where the Light Breaks, warm sailboat painting with gold and blue light
Close-up texture detail from a Mabazza Foundation painting

What We Build

A foundation where artwork becomes a doorway into support.

Mabazza Foundation’s work lives between gallery and gathering, between private survival and public service. Each program is designed to help people feel seen, held, and invited back into community.

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Healing-centered art programming

Exhibitions, activations, and art moments for survivors, caregivers, veterans, older adults, and people facing illness or isolation.

02

Artwork in shared spaces

Original works and museum-quality prints placed in environments where beauty, dignity, and emotional connection matter.

03

Community gatherings

Events that bring people together through food, art, storytelling, memory, generosity, and the soft architecture of care.

501(c)(3)Public charity
33-2353033EIN
BostonCommunity-centered programming
ArtOil paintings, prints, exhibitions, and gifts that give back

The Collection

A small cathedral of color, pressure, breath, and return.

The collection includes original oil paintings and limited works created from personal survivorship, then shaped into objects that can live in homes, galleries, fundraisers, healthcare settings, and public spaces.

Presence & Proof

The work is personal, but it is not private anymore.

Mabazza Foundation’s public presence connects art, survivorship, community fundraising, and cultural storytelling across digital platforms, gallery visibility, press, and local Boston partnerships.

Gallery Presence

Alessandro Berni Gallery on Artsy

View the Foundation founder’s gallery presence and artist listing through Alessandro Berni Gallery.

Editorial Feature

Inside the Studio

A closer look at Uchenna Obinabo-Mabazza’s practice, survivorship, transformation, and art as offering.

Mission Updates

Stories from the field

Follow grants, community events, silent auctions, senior programs, veterans initiatives, and Foundation updates.

Support the Work

Help turn art into comfort, and comfort into strength.

Every gift helps the Foundation create healing-centered art experiences, support community partnerships, place artwork where people gather, and build survivor-centered programming with beauty, dignity, and care.

Mabazza Foundation

Beauty is not extra. Sometimes beauty is the room learning how to hold us.

Explore the art, attend an event, make a gift, or help create the next healing-centered public moment.