CONTINUUM
June 2026
The Greeley Creative Arts Center is proud to present CONTINUUM, a new exhibition in the Wardell Gallery celebrating Pride Month. On view throughout June, the exhibition explores the evolving, layered, and deeply personal nature of identity, individuality, and belonging.
CONTINUUM brings together artists whose work reflects the fluid and expansive ways we understand ourselves and our place in the world. Through a diverse range of perspectives and creative approaches, the exhibition examines identity as something dynamic rather than fixed—shaped by lived experiences, relationships, culture, and community.
Featured Artists
Macey Boren, Belle-Pilar Fleming, Katelyn Rogers & Del Sandlin
The featured works challenge binaries, embrace intersectionality, and honor the many experiences that contribute to who we are. At its heart, CONTINUUM creates space for dialogue, visibility, and connection, celebrating both the shared and unique aspects of human experience, particularly within LGBTQ+ communities.
Join us throughout June as we celebrate Pride Month through art, conversation, and community.
A History of Pride
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan. Today, the purpose of the month is to celebrate queer visibility and to recognize the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals have had on history and culture.
The Stonewall Uprising, a six-day series of events at the Stonewall Inn between police and LGBTQ+ protesters, began on June 28, 1969. It was not the first time police raided a gay bar (or even this particular gay bar), and it was not the first time LGBTQ+ people fought back, but the events that would unfold over the next six days would fundamentally change the discourse surrounding LGBTQ+ activism in the United States. While the events of Stonewall are often referred to as "riots," Stonewall veterans have explicitly stated that they prefer the term Stonewall uprising or rebellion. The reference to these events as riots was initially used by police to justify their use of force.
The first Pride march in New York City was held on June 28, 1970, on the uprising’s one-year anniversary. Since 1970, LGBTQ+ people have continued to gather together in June to march with Pride and demonstrate for equal rights. Today, marchers in New York City number in the millions.
Pride celebrations include parades, picnics, parties, workshops, symposia and concerts, and LGBTQ Pride Month events attract millions of participants around the world. Memorials are held during this month for those members of the community who have been lost to hate crimes and HIV/AIDS.
Meet the Artists
Macey Boren
Much of the queer experience is vested in contending with visibility. This struggle has manifested in erasures of queerness both throughout history and in the present. Seeking to recapture a forgotten past, my work investigates the stories of women who transgressed norms of gender and sexuality during the late 19th century. These individuals were suffragists, activists, and feminists, whose lives contradicted traditional notions of American women.
Motivated by the material possibilities of digital fabrication, this body of work blends 19th century American aesthetics with modern techniques and a contemporary eye. The incorporation of authentic American antiques and images further embeds the legacies of queer women within the work. Queering the past allows us to disrupt dominant narratives and illuminate untold stories. Despite the challenges of existing as queer within the confines of patriarchy, this work stands as a reminder that queer women still fell in love, created art, marched the streets, and built community with each other. When the acceptance of queer histories is contingent on the pendulum of public perception, recapturing a lost past is crucial in ensuring that joyful, loving images of queerness can endure for generations.
Macey Boren is an emerging artist who has been exhibiting artwork throughout Colorado since 2017. In May of 2024, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and art & design from the University of Northern Colorado. Macey Boren is also a museum professional with over six years of industry experience specializing in exhibitions; she currently works as a preparator at the Denver Art Museum.
Her approach to art is driven by socio-cultural critiques, as the subject matter of her work spans queer visibility, feminist commentary, and environmental issues.
Belle-Pilar Fleming
My work emerges from a sustained curiosity about the socio-cultural landscapes we inhabit and the emotional realities of navigating them. I am drawn to the role of the artist as a community historian, utilizing archives, libraries, and collections to forge conceptual connections between past and present. Central to my practice is an interest in the affective qualities of historical ephemera and artifacts — how social and political realities linger in objects and how history imprints itself upon the contemporary experience.
Much of my work foregrounds the lives and narratives of women and queer people across time and place. Recognizing that identity is layered, intersectional, and often fragmented, I am interested in acts of agency, expressions of intimacy, and the many ways historically marginalized communities resist and subvert systems of dominance.
As a maker, my material choices are rooted in a deep reverence for craft traditions, with a particular focus on printmaking and textile-based techniques. Beyond a love for print processes and the utilitarian labor they entail, I am drawn to the ways prints circulate through social spaces and act as vessels for memory and preservation. Similarly, my engagement with textile practices traditionally associated with feminine labor — including sewing, quilting, embroidery, and mending — allows me to explore themes of lineage, domesticity, care, and embodied histories. Through these mediums, I investigate how memory, resistance, and tenderness are carried forward through material and community.
Belle-Pilar Fleming is a curator and visual artist currently living in Greeley, Colorado. She was raised in a small town outside of Dayton, Ohio, a city situated at the threshold of the Rust Belt, Appalachia, and the Midwest. Fleming holds a BA in psychology from Warren Wilson College, and an MFA in printmaking from Ohio University.
Rooted in contemporary art, her curatorial practice is shaped by her training as a studio artist and a sustained engagement with modern and critical discourse.
Katelyn Rogers
My art is a celebration of the community that shaped me and a visual journal of my journey toward authentic self-expression. My creative process is deeply fueled by the love, resilience, and support of the LGBTQ+ community. This collection of works directly reflects that profound connection, tracing my path from personal acceptance to artistic rediscovery.
My first piece, Expressions, was painted when I first came out to my family. I named it to capture the overwhelming feeling of love, safety, and belonging I experienced as my family enveloped me in support. It stands as a visual testament to being held by the passion the LGBTQ+ community has for life and authenticity.
My second piece honors Marsha P. Johnson, a visionary woman who pioneered the Pride movement for all of us to follow. Through this portrait, I express my deep gratitude for her immense sacrifice and fearless leadership. She ushered in a vital era of activism and political defiance against the corrupt systems that set out to hurt trans people. Painting her is my way of keeping her legacy of revolutionary love alive.
Katelyn Rogers is a Liberal Arts Student at Aims Community College. She sketches and paints to explore identity, community, and the beauty of diverse perspectives. Raised in Utah by two lesbian mothers, her creative foundation was built on early exposure to brilliant Queer creators. This rich upbringing instilled a deep passion for visual storytelling and a lifelong dedication to celebrating equality.
As a proud bisexual woman, Rogers translates her childhood inspirations and the unwavering support of the LGBTQ+ community into vibrant, tangible art. Her work invites viewers to embrace self-love, appreciate diversity, and connect with the universal language of creative expression.
Del Sandlin
My recent work is centered around the questions:
Why does my (queer) comfort make you uncomfortable?
and
Why does my comfort come with conditionalities?
Conditionalities explores the conditionalities that come with queer expression. The base form of the book is “I love you” “but…” It explores conditionalities I have collected in my experience, as well as those of other people I have collected: “I love you but… he can’t know,” “I love you but… I don’t want to see it,” “I love you but… it’s too much,” etc. The book is made from 22 individual batches of paper that start white and then have an increasing amount of shredded rainbow embroidery thread mixed into the pulp. After the “but…” in the piece, the paper cuts to using only grey embroidery thread, representing the ashen face of rejection, the muting of the identity to conform and be accepted, and the shock of the reception of conditionalities.
Comfort celebrates queer love through the language of flowers. Red tulips for love, a pink chrysanthemum for affection and friendship, purple sweet peas for blissful pleasure, a pink dahlia for an everlasting bond, marigolds for joy and passion, and a sunflower for longevity and loyalty. Simple flowers that we see and interact with regularly, representing the depth and breadth of queer love.
Del Sandlin is an artist and an educator. They grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, and went to art schools from 5th grade onward. Sandlin has an MS in K-12 art education from Florida State and was an elementary art teacher for two years. They met their wife at Florida State and together, they have lived in Colorado with their dog since 2020. The artist recently graduated from Colorado State University with a Master of Fine Arts in printmaking and now works at the University of Northern Colorado as an adjunct.