About

H. Maria Armijo is an artist based in Northeast Ohio whose work explores memory, migration, domestic ritual, and inherited histories through painting, textiles, handmade paper, and mixed media.

Drawing from family photographs, collected objects, and personal archives, her work considers how culture is carried across generations through stories, food, labor, and everyday acts of making. She is interested in the fragile ways memory survives: through repetition, touch, repair, and material traces.

Her recent work incorporates handmade abaca paper, stitching, layered surfaces, and painting to create tactile spaces that feel both intimate and archival. Through these materials, she examines the emotional weight of inherited objects and the quiet labor embedded within family histories.

Armijo holds a BFA in Fiber Art from the University of Cincinnati and has also studied social work and library science. She completed the Kent Blossom Art Intensive in Painting in 2022. Her painting The Dreamers received Honorable Mention in the 2025 Paul & Norma Tikkanen Painting Prize at the Ashtabula Arts Center.

She teaches Visual Communication at Cuyahoga Community College and serves as Artist Opportunities Manager at the Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland.