JEROME & JOAN: Late Night With Joan Jett Blakk

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JEROME & JOAN: Late Night With Joan Jett Blakk — Anglim/Trimble Gallery presents a live talk show hosted by the legendary, award-winning drag queen Joan Jett Blakk. In honor of 2021 Pride and the new exhibition FOUND: The Lost Art of Jerome Caja, Jerome’s infamous drag performances and fine art paintings will be the topic of discussion.

SPECIAL GUESTS: Adam Klein (AKA: Miss Rena McDonald, musician, educator and co-author of Jerome After the Pageant), Gerard Koskovich (activist and founding member of the GLBT Historical Society), Jessica Tanzer (photographer and documentarian of SF’s lesbian/queer underground), and Anthony Cianciolo (filmmaker and founder of The Jerome Project).

LIVE MUSIC: San Francisco’s beloved Hipsteria — swingers and bringers of Swing, Latin Jazz and R&B — will be performing in the Hipsteriac Lounge on the ground floor.

LOGISTICS: This hour-long show is free and will start promptly at 5:30 PM. Please arrive early because space is limited. There is bleacher style seating on the main floor and standing room in-the-round on both floors. The event will take place in San Francisco’s Dogpatch at Minnesota Street Project (1275 Minnesota Street). Parking is available around the building and on nearby alleyways. Due to current COVID regulations and the uncertainty of state restrictions to be announced on June 15th, we ask that you be patient with us. Masks might be required. Please register your tickets here with Eventbrite, print them out and bring them to the event with you to expedite and guarantee your entry.

Please Note: We apologize in advance if we are not able to accommodate everyone’s needs and wishes.

Presented by: KFAG “Your Legs in the Airwaves”

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Event Details
​Title: Late Nigth with Joan Jett Blakk
Date: Saturday June 19, 2021
Time: 5:30 - 7:00 pm

Event Location
Minnesota Street Project
1275 Minnesota Street
San Francisco CA, 94107​

Regular Exhibition Hours
Gallery: Anglim/Trimble Gallery
Open: Tue to Sat (11:00 am to 5:00 pm)
Closed: Sun to Mon

Contact Info
​Phone: (415) 433-2710​
Email: [email protected]

Special Thanks To:

• Anglim/Trimble Gallery
• Minnesota Street Project
• GLBT Historical Society
• Verasphere
• Hipsteria
• City Picture Frame
• Hanson Digital Fine Art Printing & Art Scanning
• Liza Wintersteller (Jerome Caja sugar cookies)
• Helen Owens & Jo Owens (hair, makeup & wardrobe for Miss Joan Jett Blakk)
• and most importantly, all the Jerome collectors who worked closely with The Jerome Project on this exhibition and shared their art with the world!

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Joan Jett Blakk is a fabulous drag persona created by Terence Alan Smith. She is most famously known for her Democratic presidential campaign against George W. Bush in 1992 — "Joan Jett Blakk for President." Her political aspirations were inspired by activist groups like ACT-UP and Queer Nation and their fight for visibility during the AIDS crisis.

Joan Jett Blakk was also a dear friend of Jerome, and she used her Oprah Winfrey-style platform as a way to help promote him and his art. Jerome was a special guest on the infamous Joan Jett Blakk Show, at Josie’s Juice Joint, along with other radical queers like Rena McDonald (aka Adam Klein) and Lynn Breedlove & Leslie Mah’s fierce SF LGBTQ+ punk band, Tribe-8.​

Joan Jett Blakk for President, 1992
Photo by Marc Geller

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​Jerome Caja was a master American painter and skag-drag performer. He was at the center of San Francisco  late 80’s and early 90’s queer counter culture movement of art, AIDS and activism. He used trash, found objects, and anything you might find in a drag queen’s hand bag (lipstick, eye liner, makeup, nail polish, etc.) as his medium of choice in his paintings and his apocalyptic drag. Jerome died in 1995 from complications related to HIV & AIDS. Twenty-five years after his death, our culture is only just now starting to catch up with his vision.​

Jerome Caja
Video still, circa 1990
​by Electric City

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by Anthony Cianciolo