Melissa Grakowsky Shippee is
a published beadwork designer who teaches workshops
internationally, contributes regularly to books and
magazines, illustrates diagrams for other instructors,
and has won awards for her bead artistry. She studied
physics and art in college but turned her attention to
beads when motherhood changed the direction of her
life.
Her publications and
contributions include a full-length instructional
beading book called I Can Herringbone, articles in
Beadwork Magazine, Bead & Button Magazine, Bead Star
Magazine, Perlen Poesie, and contributions to
Beading All Stars.
