Melanie Ducharme is a visual artist whose work has been described as “an exploration into the female psyche.” Her work contains the theme of female identity: what that identity means, and stereotyped femininity. Growing up with mixed messages from family members and society about what it means to be female has helped immensely with inspiration for her work. Along with the vivid imagination she has had since childhood when she would create story books, and fashion designs for herself.

Melanie’s current work explores one's identity. What makes someone who they are and why? Identity can be a role or stereotype. There are identities that are imposed on us and ones we create for ourselves. These identities start when we are young, "what will you be when you grow up?" We incorporate these identities into fairytales or we see them in the role models that we follow ... they shape us into the people that we are or are yet to become...

Melanie’s work are these identities, roles, & childhood dreams you once had; recreated and re-seen for their fancy, for their fallacy, for their humor or sadness. People supposedly change, society and "reality" supposedly change us and shape us... She wants the viewer to decide for themselves how much they have or have not conformed to these identities.