Melissa Broek graduated from Kendall College of Art and Design with a BFA in Furniture & Jewelry Design. An education in Furniture Design is calculated and measured with industrialized standards, mathematics behind ergonomics, and drafting by hand with precision: no place for inaccuracy. Although drafting full-scale offered an intricate understanding of how furniture is designed to assemble, this was entirely the wrong fit. Classes in functional art turned into evenings and weekends in the wood shop further educating on tools and materials, here there was less pressure with room for mistakes and working intuitively. Soon wearable sculpture was realized and all extra time was spent in the Jewelry Department creating tirelessly, one one project after another.

With a passion for adornment of self and space, creation is realized through various materials: metals, enamel, glass, wood and fiber drawing on excitement of natural forms. Her imagery currently contains microscopic landscapes and cell structure of fungus, plants and animals.