This became her preferred medium. “It became a special challenge,” she said, “to make it seem as if I had placed that little square right there.” She painted her last work in 1991. Dusti met her husband while they both were going to school in Chicago . Arch was working a doorman and opened a door for Dusti. They were married in 1928. Dusti and Arch Bongé's only child, Lyle Bongé, was born November 5, 1929. Lyle was drawn to art from spending time with his mother in her studio, inspiring him to pursue photography. While Bongé enjoyed success by being a part of the New York art scene she preferred to paint in her home town of Biloxi where she raised her son and continued to have success in her career. Although in later years, she had an active social life, dated and had numerous proposals, Dusti never remarried. Bongé's first exhibition was in the Contemporary arts Gallery in New York in 1939. Bongé continued to show in New York at Betty Parsons Gallery beginning in the mid 1940s, She had her first solo exhibition at Betty Parsons Gallery in 1956. Bongé continued to show at Betty Parson's until 1976. Bongé had solo exhibitions at Betty Parson's in 1958, 1960, and 1962. She had her final exhibition at Betty Parsons Gallery in 1975. The Ogden Museum of Southern Art held a exhibition of Bongé's work in 2019 called "Piercing the Inner Wall: The Art of Dusti Bongé." The exhibition followed the release of “Dusti Bongé, Art and Life: Biloxi, New Orleans & New York,”  Bongé's work has been exhibited at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans; the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, Mississippi; the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi; the Mississippi Museum of Art; and the Mobile Museum of Art. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Mississippi Museum of Art; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art; the Mobile Museum of Art; the National Museum of Women in the Arts; and the Johnson Collection in Spartanburg, South Carolina, as well as a number of private collections throughout the United States.