The Jurors

Through Women's Eyes, By Women's Hands is one of the largest juried art shows for women artists in North Carolina. This year, noted art critics Morteon Neal and Wendy H. Outland will serve as jurors for the 19th annual art exhibition

Moreton Neal, who is from Chapel Hill, studied art with Vernon Pratt at Duke University. She taught studio art before she and Bill Neal opened Chapel Hill's Restaurant La Residence in 1976. She initiated the first Women's Center Art Show at La Residence in 1985 and continued to host the benefit until 1991 when the Woman's Center moved to its current location. Since then she has helped hang the show's art every year except one. Moreton currently appears regularly as food and arts editor of WDNC's "The Better Living Show," and is an interior designer who believes that the focal point of every room should be a beautiful work of art.

Wendy H. Outland, has been the manager of Blue Spiral 1 since 1991, the year the gallery opened in downtown Asheville. Her background includes more than twenty years of professional visual arts experience in administration and hands-on exhibition coordination. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Ringling School of Art & Design. Prior to moving to North Carolina, she was employed with the Florida Department of State for ten years, initially at Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, then for the International Rubins Symposium in 1982. She then relocated to Tallahassee where she managed the state's public art program as well as five exhibit spaces at the Capitol Complex. She served on the Board of Directors for the Asheville Area Arts Council and has been editor, grants panelist, presenter, juror, and curator for numerous projects and events.