Manahawkin-based painter and mixed media artist Amy Beth Kunze “paints what you love from a photo.” Her story is a COVID-inspired transition from a 24-year career as an occupational therapist to full-time artist.

After high school she attended Moore College of Art in Philadelphia and later Bucks County Community College and Tyler School of Art, but she took the science route professionally. In 2012 she felt the tug of art and started a side business for about five years.