​Check out this playful new addition to the Jerome Caja Repository

Stacked Deck Press just released “The Queer Heroes Coloring Book,” and Jerome Caja is one of the many iconic figures featured (Oscar Wilde, Frida Kahlo, Grace Jones, Marlon Riggs, Keith Harring, Divine, etc.). Artist Justin Hall created a really sweet B&W line drawing inspired by Catherine Opie’s famous 1993 portrait of Jerome.

The Jerome Caja Repository

The repository is key to the historical preservation aspect of The Jerome Project. We are currently working with art historians to manage the repository and make it available for academic research. If you have anything related to Jerome Caja and are interested in finding a permanent home for your Jerome treasures, consider donating them to our repository. If this interests you, please contact us! For several years now we have been gathering, documenting, photographing, and preserving material related to Jerome (paintings, photos, videos, publications, and artifacts). The Queer Heroes Coloring book, by Jon Macy, is the most recent addition to the hundreds and hundreds of publications already in the repository.
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​Today, December 1, 2016, is World AIDS Day, and it is also the opening of the Art AIDS America Chicago Exhibition. This show has now been traveling across the US (Tacoma Art Museum in Washington, Zuckerman Museum of Art in Kennesaw State University of Georgia, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York) with Chicago being it's last scheduled stop.

For this final exhibition, the entire collection will be on display. Within the show are three beautiful Jerome Caja pieces: Bozo Fucks Death, Little Yellow Angels, and Shroud of Curad. If you are in the Chicago area, you should treat yourself to this exquisite show. It is like no other and is more timely than ever. The co-curators, Rock Hushka and Jonathan David Katz, succeeded in doing what no other art museum would risk – taking on a large-scale, uncompromising exhibition on art and AIDS. This is not to be missed!

​December 1, 2016 through April 2, 2017
Alphawood Gallery, 2401 North Halsted Street Chicago, Illinois 60614

Free Timed Admission Passes Recommended (click here to register online)

“This groundbreaking exhibition underscores the deep and unforgettable presence of HIV in American art. It introduces and explores the whole spectrum of artistic responses to AIDS, from the politically outspoken to the quietly mournful, surveying works from the early 1980s to the present.”

“Art AIDS America will culminate its national tour at the new Alphawood Gallery, established for this presentation by the Alphawood Foundation, at 2401 North Halsted Street (at Fullerton Avenue). The exhibition – opening on World AIDS Day, Thursday, December 1, and continuing through Sunday, April 2, 2017 – will be free and open to the public.”