Melanie Reim is an award-winning illustrator with a sketchbook never far from her side.
Since earning her MFA in Illustration from Syracuse University, she has illustrated for book publishers, advertising agencies, museums, magazines and major corporations, with Simon and Schuster, The Millbrook Press, The Sony Corporation, Coca- Cola, Newsweek, Inc., Young and Rubicam, The Wildlife Conservation Society and The American Museum of Natural History amongst her clients. 

Melanie loves to draw and translates this love to her graduate and undergraduate students both in the US and abroad. She can be found during the school year at  FIT, where she is a full time professor and the chair of the MA in Illustration program.  Her visual journals have been the subject of articles published out of London, UK, as well as Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic, and her documentary work is part of the Air Force Art Collection, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Her work has appeared in many solo and group exhibitions, including a one-woman show at The Society of Illustrators in New York City.

As a Fulbright Scholar in the Dominican Republic, she conducted an intensive, two-week figure drawing workshop and lectured on The Evolution of the Illustrated Poster and then, took to the sugar cane fields with her sketchbook and supplies, not only illustrating her own reportage, but giving art lessons to the children in the local bateys. With a close eye on the bulls nearby, she filled her books with work that she is now sharing with both her graduate and undergraduate students at FIT.