From her first Houston exhibitions in public spaces, like Two Allen Center supporting the Asia Society's vision of creating their new building where Colton
sponsored major contemporary Asian art exhibitions from Thailand, China and Japan in October of 2000, 2001 and 2002... to supporting FotoFest in 2002 by bringing the film Downtown 81 featuring Jean Michel Basquiat to the Angelika Film Center and the accompanying exhibition to a funky art space
restaurant in Montrose..., then going to Summer Street and opening Deborah Colton Gallery in 2004, which started the revitalization of that
area... Colton has always paved the way to help positive things happen for Houston in the future.