Creative bags from Kathleen Dustin (32 pics)

Ceramic artist Kathleen Dustin is widely recognized as one of the world's leading polymer clay artists, a pioneer, an educato. Her exquisite evening bags have been celebrated for their emotional images of women, translucent depth of surface, and vibrant colors. Her most recent purses and art jewelry pay attention to the natural forms she finds in the woods of New Hampshire. Kathleen Dustin has been working with polymer clay since the early 1980s, developing many of her own techniques because it was a material with no history as a fine art or fine craft medium. She is a member and juror of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, the oldest professional craft organization in the United States, and has been a juror for numerous national shows.