The artwork of painter Jonas Gerard has hung prominently in the Asheville Regional Airport for several years now. Meanwhile, ongoing allegations of Gerard's sexual assaults on multiple victims throughout the years have also been continuously coming to light. How many victims is the magic number before the Asheville Regional Airport will remove Gerard as the face of Asheville? Not only is confronting the artwork a trigger for his victims and other sexual assault survivors, we simply do not want an alleged sexual predator to be an ambassador for the Asheville area artists. Furthermore, that space could be used to represent many other deserving and qualified artists local to the area. So we ask, remove the artwork of Jonas Gerard from this community space.
For information on the assaults:
https://ashevillesurvivorscoalition.wordpress.com/
For information on Asheville Regional Airport's refusal to acknowledge the community requests:
https://ashevillesurvivorscoalition.wordpress.com/2017/12/27/asheville-regional-airport-ignores-community-requests-to-remove-art-of-jonas-gerard/
