Vessels

• Sat, Jan 3, 2026 - Sat, Feb 14, 2026  9am - 5pm On View
• Thursday, Jan 8, 2026  6pm - 8pm Art Reception
• Thursday, Jan 8, 2026  6:30pm - 7pm Artist Talk
• Saturday, Feb 14, 2026  6pm - 8pm Closing Reception

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Vessels explores the many interpretations of the word “vessel”—as both a container that holds physical matter and as a metaphor for the human experience of holding memories, dreams, and emotions. Through glass, artists Chris Alexander and Deborah Ellington investigate how objects become carriers of meaning. Their work moves fluidly between the literal and the symbolic: boats, bowls, act as vessels not only of form, but of feeling, journey, and remembrance. The exhibition celebrates the power of material and metaphor—how glass, with its transparency and permanence, can hold what is most ephemeral: memory itself.

Deborah Ellington graduated from Albion College with a degree in Art Education, later obtaining a M.A. in Painting from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Ceramics from Sam Houston State University. After college, she taught K-12 in Michigan and ended her career as an instructional dean at Lone Star College in Texas. In between, she was an art professor and department chair at Lone Star College. Deborah has never stopped teaching. Even after retirement, she teaches fused glass workshops in design, color, painting, and kiln casting at Harmony Stained Glass in Pasadena, Texas. Deborah continues as a working artist with a studio at Silver Street Studios in Houston, Texas.

Chris Alexander has been working in stained and kiln-formed glass for over thirty years. She chooses glass as her medium because it is dynamic and technically challenging. It invites experimentation with translucency, opacity, reflectivity, and fluidity. It offers manifold opportunities for artistic storytelling. Chris is a member artist at Archway Gallery in Montrose, and artist-in-residence at Harmony Stained Glass in Pasadena, Texas.