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*Image courtesy of artist Lehna Huie.
For three years running, Unidos En El Arte has proven that art is more than expression—it’s survival, it’s community, it’s the bridge between where we’ve been and where we’re going. This year’s exhibition celebrates the resilience woven into every brushstroke, every story, every creative act that emerges from our vibrant Latinx and Caribbean community in Baltimore.
In a time when our stories need telling more than ever, Unidos En El Arte showcases how artists transform struggle into beauty, isolation into connection, and adversity into inspiration. These works celebrate the contributions of Latinx and Caribbean artists living in and around Baltimore, each piece a testament to the unbreakable spirit that defines our community.
Join us for the Opening Reception: Saturday, September 20, 6-8PM
Artist Bios
Ayala
Ayala is an experimental animator from Baltimore, whose work can be seen in films such as “Boheme in the Heights”—a contemporary, Spanish Language adaptation of the opera La Boheme, produced entirely during the pandemic and rendered in an eclectic range of handcrafted styles—and “The Storydancer”, a documentary about actress and dancer Maria Broom, releasing this October. In addition to her freelance work, Ayala teaches Animation and Digital Arts classes at Baltimore School for the Arts and Anne Arundel Community College.
Baby Mango Friend
Baby is an artist working with an array of mediums and materials. Raised in a family that ran a neighborhood wholesale, it was some of their earliest learning of how to interact with people, how to serve. Outside that world of service and hospitality, Kingston in the 1990s and early 2000’s was their education in culture.
Daniela Godoy
Daniela Godoy is native of Ecuador. She holds a B.A, in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). She was part of the original research team of the Jahuay sponsored by the Institute of Cultural Patrimony of Ecuador where she worked as a photographer, certified translator and painter. This project reconnected her to her maternal grandmother’s indigenous roots– who was part of this indigenous community, worked and lived through the hacienda period.Her twenty-piece series of the Jahuay paintings has been exhibited in solo shows in Hungary in 2013, a traveling series throughout 6 cities in Ecuador, culminating at Casa la Cultura of Baltimore Maryland in 2023. As a participant in The Exposure Award (Documentary Collection), one of her Jahuay portrait photographs was exhibited at the Louvre Museum in Paris in 2015. Her plein air work has recently been exhibited at the Kennedy Center and others reside in private collections, including Harvard’s Office for the Arts.
Lehna Huie
Lehna has participated in solo and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally at select institutions and galleries such as National Gallery of Jamaica, ACRE Projects in Chicago, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art in NY, Museum of Contemporary Art in Arlington, VA, Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn, NY, Rush Arts in Philadelphia, PA, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Quartair Contemporary Gallery in the Netherlands and The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art in NY. Additionally, she has been featured in exhibitions in Thailand, Italy, Jamaica and Germany.
Huie received her MFA at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) 21’ where she studied in Mount Royal’s Interdisciplinary Arts Program and at the Hoffberger School of Painting. Lehna has participated in prestigious residencies including the Joan Mitchell Center, Stoneleaf Retreat, ACRE, Chautauqua School of Art, Bandung Residency, Elsewhere Studios, Flux Factory, and Snug Harbor.
Lehna was named an Artist Changemaker with Global Fund for Women and has received multiple awards including the Space for Creative Black Imagination Makers & Research Fellowship and two Puffin Foundation grants. Lehna will be participating in upcoming residencies at Ma’s House and Wassaic Project in Upstate NY in 2026.
Trained through the Joan Mitchell Foundation, her practice includes work as a Legacy Specialist preserving intergenerational artists archives and oral histories.
Camila Leão
Camila Leão (b. 1990) is a Baltimore-based multimedia artist originally from São Paulo, Brazil. Her work spans illustration, murals, public art, and fine art, and is deeply informed by her connection to the natural world and her cultural roots. Raised between the dense urban energy of São Paulo and the wild Atlantic Forest of Boracéia’s coastline, she developed a lasting reverence for nature that continues to shape her artistic voice.
Leão earned her degree in Graphic Design from Centro Universitário SENAC in 2013. Her studio practice centers on vibrant, contemporary paintings that celebrate organic forms, biodiversity, and ecological connection. Through a mix of fluid & geometric lines, and bold palettes, she evokes the rhythm and celebration of nature, often drawing inspiration from Brazilian fauna, flora, and memory.
Alongside her fine art, she also creates public and commercial works rooted in community identity. Her murals and illustrations carry the same expressive visual language, adapted to reflect local narratives and shared environments. Her projects include public commissions across Maryland, editorial work for Baltimore Magazine, and the design of the Essex Gateway Monument.
Location: Amalie Rothschild Gallery
Location: Amalie Rothschild Gallery
Location: Main Gallery
Location: Amalie Rothschild Gallery
