About the Artist
Perky Edgerton has been working as a painter for over twenty-five years. She studied at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence, Italy. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1978 from Boston University, and a Masters of Fine Arts in 1980 from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia and Rome.
Her work has been exhibited in numerous one-person and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. She has been the recipient of several grants an fellowships, notably a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and two Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Fellowships.
Perky is the painter/illustrator of Pipiolo and the Rooftop Dogs and BRAVO, TAVO.
She currently lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania with her husband Brian Meunier and two daughters.
