A Day with Jerome

Pop-Up Art Gallery / Screening / Presentations / Food

An all-day pop-up gallery and presentation series about the life and art of the Castro district's notorious drag queen and posthumously-recognized master American painter Jerome Caja.  

Hagerty Lounge will be split for the day, with activities, screenings, and presentations in one half, while more than a hundred works of Jerome's art will be available for viewing in the other. Everyone in the Saint Mary's community is welcome to attend any and all activities during the day (the presentations are planned to be brief), and come and go as they please. 

Food will be served all day: coffee and donuts in the morning, lunch from San Francisco's La Mediterranee, and snacks and drinks throughout. 

SCHEDULE

9:00 am. Doors open. Coffee and donuts.

9:30am. Students in Art 109: Figure Drawing will sketch a student model wearing one of Jerome's dresses and wigs. 

10:45am. Documentary filmmaker Anthony Cianciolo will present an overview of Jerome's life, art and activism to the Comm 444: Community Media and WGS 311: Queer Theories classes. 

12:05pm. Hands-on documentary story structure demonstration with the Core 202: Video Essay class and members of  Saint Mary's Film Club.

1:00pm. Lunch is served (Mediterranean)

1:30pm. Anthony Cianciolo will present on Jerome Caja's relationship to Saint Jerome, and his growing consideration as a radical progressive Catholic after his passing in 1995. 

3:30pm. The AIDS activism documentary How to Survive a Plague will be screened as a Seminar Informal Curriculum companion text to Seminar 304's reading of Angels in America. Discussion to follow. 

6:00 pm. Doors close.

SPONSORS

Thanks to our many sponsors: the Roy E. and Patricia Disney Forum Fund, Seminar Informal Curriculum, the Media Production, Communication, Art & Art History, History, and Women & Gender Studies Programs/Departments, CCIE: Queeries, and the Film Club and PRIDE Student Group.