Melaina's artist practice includes printmaking, drawing, collage, painting and murals. She graduated from Thompson Rivers University in 2011 with her Bachelor of Fine Arts and spent time in Dawson City Yukon on a field course of Northern Studies. She promptly began a residency with the Kamloops Printmakers Society to keep her printmaking practice moving along and joined as a permanent member. She has worked as an educator and installation assistant at Kamloops Art Gallery since 2011.
In June 2015, Melaina successfully started a crowd-funding campaign to travel to Ottawa for a flight-themed research residency. Her campaign goal was to raise enough money by doing pet portraits with pencil and ink on paper. She has also participated in Kamloops Art Gallery's 2nd bi-annual week long projection event Luminocity (2016).
Melaina uses her work as a way to create tableaus of various social, personal, political, environmental and psychological subjects, all of which are undergoing some kind of alchemical transition. She values the ability of the image to be recycled and reinvented for the purposes of communicating an idea.
In June 2015, Melaina successfully started a crowd-funding campaign to travel to Ottawa for a flight-themed research residency. Her campaign goal was to raise enough money by doing pet portraits with pencil and ink on paper. She has also participated in Kamloops Art Gallery's 2nd bi-annual week long projection event Luminocity (2016).
Melaina uses her work as a way to create tableaus of various social, personal, political, environmental and psychological subjects, all of which are undergoing some kind of alchemical transition. She values the ability of the image to be recycled and reinvented for the purposes of communicating an idea.