About Me

H. Maria Armijo is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and librarian based in Northeast Ohio. Her creative practice bridges visual storytelling, memory, and cultural identity through painting, textiles, and mixed media.

Originally from Honduras, her family migrated to a suburb of Dayton, Ohio. Her multidisciplinary background reflects a lifelong commitment to curiosity, culture, and community. She holds a BFA in Fiber Arts from the University of Cincinnati, an MS in Social Administration from Case Western Reserve University, and an MLIS from Kent State University.

Armijo’s work is rooted in themes of diaspora, assimilation, loss, and the intimate connections that bind us. Drawing from a personal archive of family artifacts, she explores how we carry culture, remember, and remake meaning over time and across distance.

Armijo began painting during the pandemic and, in 2022, completed the Kent Blossom Art Intensive in Painting. Her painting The Dreamers received Honorable Mention in the Paul & Norma Tikkanen Painting Prize at the Ashtabula Arts Center in 2025. She is also the recipient of the 2025 SCBWI Ohio North Underrepresented Diverse Voices (BIPOC) Scholarship, supporting her exploration of picture book illustration and narrative art.

She teaches Game Design and Visual Communication at Cuyahoga Community College and serves as Artist Opportunities Manager at the Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland, where she connects artists with opportunities in papermaking, book arts, and print.

Armijo lives in Northeastern Ohio with her husband and two children.

Armijo was recently interviewed by Books Are My People. Click here to listen to the interview.