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Tamsyn Kuehnert is an artist living in Cleveland. In her work, she considers humanity’s relationship with the living world, deeply inspired by her own observations and love of nature. Often focusing on interactions between animals, she paints physiological, cartoony and child-like scenes of predator-prey encounters. She has shown her work in multiple group shows at galleries including The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland (OH), Gallery East at Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland (OH), and Valley Arts Center, Chagrin Falls (OH). She received a Board Honorable Mention in the 2023 Student Independent Exhibition at The Cleveland Institute of Art, and was accepted into the 2023 Creativity Works Internship program where, using a grant from the Gund Family Scholarship, she put together a two-part workshop called “Repulp.” In this workshop she worked with sustainability clubs and the Morgan Paper Conservatory to turn recycled paper into paper used for watercolor paintings using natural pigments. This workshop furthered her drive to make her artistic practice more sustainable and inspire others to do the same with their own creative endeavors.