Mahari Chabwera (born April 11, 1995) is an American artist and curator best known for her tapestry paintings illustrating spiritual archetypes. She utilizes beads, oil paint, mica, cowrie shells, tempered glass and fabric as painting elements. 

 

In 2019 Chabwera was awarded The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Professional Fellowship. In 2020 she was awarded the Visual Arts Center Emerging Artist Award. In 2021 Chabwera started Studio House, a live + work space for artists in East Baltimore that continued through November 2023. In support of the project she was awarded The Grit Fund from the Peale Museum, along with a Maryland State Arts Council Creativity Grant.  

 

Over the last 5 years Chabwera has worked to develop Salt Eaters Fellowship; mutual aid that supports Black Women Artist’s in their creative rest and experimentation. Salt’s most recent award recipients, Angelique Scott, 2022-23 and Gerald A. Brown, 2024-25 received a total of $6,500 made possible through a combination of personal funds, and a generous donation from critically acclaimed painter and printmaker Latoya M. Hobbs.​