I Shook My Groove Thing
[Melanie Reim in New York City] Yes, it is true. I am an old disco queen. I went from rocking out to David Bowie, when the songs were new, to leaving home at 11pm, totally dolled up, only to roll into work at Newsweek Magazine the next morning after dancing the night away. So, you can […]
Home Away From Home
[By Melanie Reim in Santo Domingo] It’s no secret that I spend much of my down time in my adopted country, the Dominican Republic. When I was invited to judge the national art competition for Diario Libre at the end of May, I was so excited to being going “home” again- and tried to make the […]
USk News: new workshop in Seattle, USA “Dancing Lines: Ink Drawing on Location, People, Places and Things”
USk is pleased to announce a new workshop taught by Kiah Kiean and Melanie Reim. Join the instructors as they explore Seattle while creating dynamic line drawings of architecture and people. For more information on this exciting new workshop click here.
我的第一个一百天，第一部分
[梅兰妮-赖姆在纽约市的报道]美国的选举日刚刚过去100天左右。我们这里的许多人现在把我们的时间定性为之前和之后，令人不寒而栗地提醒我们，时代在一夜之间发生了多么重大的变化。这是一个历史性的时刻，当历史发生时，艺术家们就会崛起，[...] 。
舞动的线条关于地点、人物、场所和事物的水墨画
Worlds collide and ink will splatter as Urban Sketcher Kiah Kiean Ch’ng, from Penang, Malaysia and Melanie Reim, from New York, USA, join forces to deliver a power-packed workshop where line drawing will rule. The passion and process of drawing architecture and people and the combination of both, with KK’s infamous, hand-crafted twigs and Melanie’s […]
2016年选举之夜，纽约市
[Melanie Reim & Veronica Lawlor] On Election Day in the USA, urban sketchers Melanie Reim and Veronica (Ronnie) Lawlor decided to document together at the Javits Center, NYC, where Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton planned an election night event for her supporters. Here is their conversational account of the day, and some of their drawings: Ronnie, […]
沙丘日
[By Melanie Reim on Cape Cod] The sky is as clear and crisp today in New York as it was so many days on Cape Cod this past summer. But the air is filled with an aura of nervous anticipation-“Doomsday” keeps running through my mind- and then, I thought, I will choose to think about […]
无偏见的骄傲
[By Melanie Reim in New York City] There are barely words to describe being witness to the Pride Parade in New York City today, but I will try. Jubilation, reverence, defiance, happiness, indignation, respect, fun, honor, fun, fearless, free and of course, pride. All there, multiplying those messages with every group that congregated, every flag that […]
A Room, A Roof, with A View
[By Melanie Reim in Spain] For over thirty years, I have lived in New York City, on Riverside Drive-but I do not face the river from my apartment. In fact, I have one of those quintessential stories, where I face a brick wall, with a little sliver of sky above, so my apartment is not […]
Still Berning
[By Melanie Reim, New York City, Washington Square Park] Well, part of my sabbatical experience/promise to ME, is to get out and draw more- so although this post is not related directly to my sabbatical project, it is about getting out there and experiencing through drawing on location, all the happenings out and around me. **This […]