A meaningful beginning.
The silent auction and in-person donations raised $3395 in support of the Foundation’s healing-centered mission. Every bid, gift, question, and conversation helped carry the work forward.
The Mabazza Foundation at The Connector
Mabazza Foundation × The Connector at Winthrop Center
Healing Art atWinthrop Boston
Meet the artist and the voice behind Mabazza Foundation during a public presentation of original oil paintings, personal story, and a mission dedicated to supporting cancer survivors, caregivers, and people navigating recovery.
Thank You, Boston
$3395 raised through art, generosity, and community.
Thank you to everyone who joined us at The Connector at Winthrop Center, participated in the silent auction, made an in-person contribution, or stopped to learn more about the Mabazza Foundation.
Every Vitality Bowl gives back.
Through The Connector’s We Give Back program, Chop Shop is donating $2 from every Vitality Bowl purchased through August 31, 2026, to the Mabazza Foundation.
Our sincere thanks to the team at The Connector and Winthrop Center for welcoming the Foundation, and to every wonderful person who paused during the day to experience the artwork, hear the story, and learn why this mission matters.
August 5 Public launch and meet-the-artist gathering.
11 AM to 2 PM A midday art experience inside The Connector.
115 Federal Street Winthrop Center in downtown Boston.
3 to 4 Works A curated selection of original oil paintings.
The Gathering
A city space becomes a place to pause.
Healing Art at Winthrop Boston brings Mabazza Foundation's original oil paintings into The Connector, the central gathering space at Winthrop Center.
Guests are invited to meet the artist, hear the personal story behind the Foundation, and learn how its mission uses art, community, and emotional connection to support cancer survivors and others moving through illness, caregiving, grief, and recovery.
Visitors may experience the artwork, contribute through the dedicated event campaign, inquire about an original painting, or explore eligible works through their individual product pages.
Why This Matters
Healing is emotional, visual, and communal.
Mabazza Foundation believes art can change the emotional temperature of a room.
Many people facing cancer, chronic illness, grief, caregiving, disability, or recovery spend long seasons in spaces that feel clinical, stressful, or invisible. A painting does not solve those experiences, but it can soften them. It can open conversation. It can offer breath, dignity, and a moment of return.
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Healing-Centered Art
Programs and art experiences for survivors, caregivers, veterans, older adults, and people facing illness or isolation.
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Shared Spaces
Original works and prints placed where beauty, dignity, and emotional connection matter.
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Community Gatherings
Art-forward events that bring people together through story, memory, generosity, and shared presence.
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Future Partnerships
Support for hospital, veteran, senior, and community wellness collaborations in Boston and beyond.
The Winthrop Center Moment
Quiet, polished, and intentional.
A refined art presence inside a living city space, designed for reflection, generosity, and discovery.
During the launch, guests can experience original works while enjoying the civic energy and hospitality of The Connector at Winthrop Center.
Art, hospitality, and giving share the same table.
As part of The Connector's We Give Back series, selected food items will be designated to benefit Mabazza Foundation. A portion of those purchases will support the Foundation's work with cancer survivors, caregivers, and communities navigating recovery.
Collector Opportunity
Winthrop Center Collector Appreciation Offer
Guests who discover the artwork at The Connector may use the collector code below for 35% off eligible works available directly through Mabazza Foundation.
WINTHROP
Enter the code at checkout where available, or include it in an email inquiry. The offer is intended for The Connector community and may remain available through the final day of the extended display.
Availability, eligibility, and purchase arrangements can be confirmed directly with the Foundation.
Featured Auction Work
Heart in Color
One painting will be offered for auction during the event: Heart in Color, a framed 23 × 30 inch oil on canvas in a floating black frame.
The winning bidder will take the framed artwork home. The piece carries the emotional center of the gathering: color as courage, feeling as radiance, and beauty as a visible form of healing.
Guests may view the artwork page for additional details and contact the Foundation with questions before or after the launch.
Ways to Support
Give at the level that feels right.
Donations support Mabazza Foundation's art-based wellness work for people affected by cancer, chronic illness, recovery, caregiving, and isolation.
$25Adds a brushstroke to the mission and helps bring healing-centered art into the community. $50Supports art materials, printing, outreach, and community-facing wellness needs. $100Helps sponsor art-based support for a survivor, caregiver, veteran, or older adult. $250Supports community art and wellness programming connected to healing and connection. $500Helps underwrite original artwork, exhibitions, installation, and program visibility. $1,000Major support for Mabazza Foundation's 2026 art and wellness work.
After the Launch
The work continues speaking.
Following the August 5 gathering, selected Mabazza Foundation paintings will remain on view at The Connector for one to two weeks.
The extended display allows the work to be discovered slowly. A painting seen in passing may become a reason to stop. A familiar color may feel different the second time. A quiet corner may become a small place of return.
Eligible works will remain available for collector inquiry during the display period, including pieces offered through the WINTHROP collector code.
Every purchase, donation, and inquiry supports Mabazza Foundation's mission to bring healing-centered art and wellness experiences to people affected by illness, recovery, caregiving, and isolation.
Exhibition Preview
A preview of the paintings being considered for The Connector.
Ten works are presented below as the event preview. The final on-site installation will include 8 to 10 paintings, selected for scale, visual rhythm, availability, and the way the works speak to one another in the room.
Each image links to its artwork page. The final selection may shift slightly as the installation is completed, but the emotional thread remains constant: resilience, care, memory, movement, and return.
Featured Auction WorkHeart in ColorColor as courage and emotion made visible.
After The RainA luminous road toward renewal.
Profile in CrimsonPresence emerging from shadow and ember.
The Beacon That Kept Its PromiseGuidance held steady inside the storm.
Will Against the SeaResolve moving through open water.
A Path for the Sleepless MoonA moonlit passage through restless color.
The Distance Between UsLove, movement, and the space between.
I Will Always Be ThereCare that continues beyond presence.
The Weight of HeavenEndurance beneath weather and scale.
A Prayer Without WordsQuiet survival when language falls away.
Mabazza Foundation
Beauty is not extra. Sometimes beauty is the room learning how to hold us.
Healing Art at Winthrop Boston invites the community to encounter original art not simply as decoration, but as care, presence, memory, and connection.
Thank you for supporting Mabazza Foundation and for being part of the We Give Back community at The Connector at Winthrop Center.
Mabazza Foundation is a 501(c)(3) public charity. EIN 33-2353033.