Paducah's Yeiser Art Center Names New Executive Director

WKMS | By Whitney Jones

Published January 28, 2015 at 2:31 PM CST

The Yeiser Art Center has a new executive director after a two-month search. Lindsey Maestri is taking the position after Josh White resigned from the post in November.

Maestri has taught at Houston Community College, Murray State and Tennessee Tech’s Appalachian Center for Craft. She earned her Bachelors of Fine Arts at the University of Arkansas and a Master of Fine Arts at Louisiana State University.

Maestri begins her duties Feb. 9.

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Whitney grew up listening to Car Talk to and from her family’s beach vacation each year, but it wasn’t until a friend introduced her to This American Life that radio really grabbed her attention. She is a recent graduate from Union University in Jackson, Tenn., where she studied journalism. When she’s not at WKMS, you can find her working on her backyard compost pile and garden, getting lost on her bicycle or crocheting one massive blanket.

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