Margery Pearl Gurnett of Pearl Glassworks Ltd.  Is a nationally recognized glass artist whose public and private commissions can be found everywhere from the White House to major airports in the USA and Canada. She specializes in site specific, custom architectural artwork featuring kiln cast glass, mosaics, sandblasted and painted glass windows and panels.

Her clients include Delta Airlines; Dull, Olsen & Weeks; Milton Pate Associates; Culpepper, McAullife, and Meaders; John Ruhlen & Associates; Hyatt Hotels, and Roberts Wesleyan College among other commissions for private residences, local retail establishments and restaurants.

After receiving her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 1977, Margery Pearl Gurnett completed her MFA at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1986. She has been working professionally in glass for over 30 years, and continues to work and reside in Rochester, New York with her Husband and her weimaraner.

Education:
Corning Museum of Glass - The Studio, traditional mosaics-Vanessa Somers, Painting on Glass-Denise Stillwaggon-Leone, Lucartha Kohler- casting, Cappy Thompson- Painting on glass, Mark Ditzler- casting/fusing, Kimiake and Shin-ichi Higuchi- Pate de Verre
M.F.A (Master Of Fine Arts) Rochester Institute of Technology, School for American Craftsmen 1986 Studied under Andy Magdanz, and Michael Estes Taylor Pilchuck School of Glass, Washington - 1984 with Ann Wolf Haystack Mountain School Of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine- Salt session 1978, glassblowing 1979, technical glass assistant 1980,1982. Studied with Kathleen Mulcahey, Howard BenTre`, Mark Peiser, Dale Chihuly Penland School, Penland, North Carolina with Jim Harmon 1982
B.F.A. Ceramics, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 1977
Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico 1973

Selected Awards, Commissions and Exhibitions:
Roberts Wesleyan College- two mosaic murals for the Rinker Community Service Center
Horses On Parade- Frontier Telephone/ Global Crossing- life sized, rearing glass mosaic horse
Commissions- Delta Airlines -glass panels for the Delta Crown Rooms in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania/ Houston, Texas/ Jacksonville, Florida/ Washington National Airport/ Salt Lake City, Utah/ Montreal, Canada/ Seattle, Washington
Collection of The White House, Clinton Administration -Washington D.C
New York Experimental Glass Workshop- Invitational Show, New York
Synderman Galleries -Philadelphia group show
Heller Gallery- Invitational show and competition, New York
Habatat Galleries-Small Sculpture, Michigan
San Francisco Airport Show of American Crafts- Invitational
Jackie Chalkley Gallery, four person show, Washington, D.C.
Smithsonian Institution, juried exhibition Washington, D.C.
Germanow Gallery -One person show Rochester, N.Y.
Bevier Gallery- Masters Thesis Show, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
Saint Gaudens Medal for Fine Draftsmanship, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
North Shore Community Arts Center- First prize in Watercolor and Graphics Category, New York

Experience:
1985 to present - Pearl Glassworks Ltd., Rochester, New York - President
1981 to 1982 - Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York -Technical Graduate Assistant
1981 to 1983 - Avon Place Studios, Rochester, New York- Production Assistant, for Andrew Magdanz
1978 to 1979 - Secretary and Treasurer of the New York Experimental Glass Workshop