PROJECT I: Documentary Feature Film

"Jerome and the Art of Sainthood" is an unconventional, art-driven feature documentary that explores the cultural relevance of Jerome Caja's art and places him where he belongs in contemporary art history as a master American painter. This film also sheds light on a relatively unknown chapter in San Francisco's rich history of drag and counter-culture art.
PROJECT II: Digital Catalogue Raisonné

A comprehensive database of Jerome's paintings and related material (video, audio, articles, publications, and ephemera) is available for public use. This encyclopedic collection will migrate into an online forum dedicated to preserving Caja's legacy. It is ongoing, interactive, and will be regularly updated. Please contact us if you have art, photos, video, or personal stories to share.
PROJECT III: Revival Art Shows

Several exhibitions will feature well-known and rarely seen pieces of Jerome's art that are significant in telling the complete story of his life; a retrospective is also in the works. Jonathan Katz included several of Jerome's works in a major national exhibition called Art AIDS America, which opened at the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington (October 3, 2015 – January 10, 2016).
PROJECT IV: Biographical Timeline

In tandem with the catalogue raisonné, we are compiling a chronological list of Jerome's group exhibitions, solo shows, publications, performances, and significant events in his life. Eventually, it will become an easily navigated, interactive, web based animated 3D timeline. The original source for this list was found at www.queerculturalcenter.org, and this material has since been re-organized and expanded.
PROJECT V: Fine Art Book

A large-format art book about Jerome is in development and will be issued in special-limited and standard editions as a fundraising tool for the project. It will be connected to a retrospective exhibition and the documentary film. The goal is to expand on Adam Klein and Thomas Avena's monograph Jerome: After the Pageant and make a larger collection of Jerome's work available to the public.
PROJECT VI: Historical Preservation

The Jerome Project is working with art historians to manage a repository that is available for scholarly research. We are gathering, documenting, photographing, and preserving material related to Jerome (paintings, photos, videos, publications, and artifacts). We have also been conducting oral histories with people who were important in Jerome's life. Our principal advisor and interviewer is the writer and art & oral historian Dr. Paul J. Karlstrom.
PROJECT VII: The Jerome Caja Foundation

The Jerome Project will eventually become a self-sustaining non-profit organization dedicated to keeping Jerome's legacy alive and flourishing. The goal is to make a permanent home for all things Jerome-related. This is the backbone and platform for all the other projects listed here. An advisory board will help manage its affairs in collaboration with Jerome's Estate.
​Top Banner: Detail from the painting "Little Yellow Angles" by Jerome Caja, Excerpted from: Jerome After the Pageant, 1995