With Brooks’ move, new director will be ‘critical’ for Downtown
On Friday, Aug. 5, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art named Zoe Kahr as its next executive director. (Ziggy Mack/Special to The Daily Memphian)
“I think the museum field has been going through this long, kind of traumatic, transition from being a place that was for a very small group of people, by a very small group of people, to a place that is very much a civic asset for a city,” said incoming Memphis Brooks Museum of Art executive director Zoe Kahr.
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Christin Yates
Christin Yates is a native Memphian who has worked in PR and copywriting since 2007. She earned her B.S. in public relations and M.S. in mass communications from Murray State University.
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