Collections: Kimberly Chalos

Kimberly Chalos - Evansville, Indiana

Educated at the University of Southern Indiana, Kimberly has won numerous awards and scholarships with her designs. Sculpture has always been a defining part of her artwork, but she realized that making a living from it was not easy. She worked for a company making hand-carved furniture, and while making a reproduction of a northwest coast Tlingit rattle, she noticed the rattle sitting upside-down on her work table. She thought what a unique handbag it would be. From that thought came a whole line of beautiful hand-carved handbags.