The South Arkansas Arts Center is the cultural link for people living in South Arkansas and North Louisiana. Because it is SAAC’s mission to educate and entertain it provides monthly gallery exhibits featuring local, regional and nationally acclaimed artists, a season of community theatre productions annually, classes for children and adults in visual arts, photography, ballet, music, and drama on site as well as Artists-in-Education in area schools. SAAC’s 22,500 facility houses three art galleries, a ballet studio, a 206 seat theatre , a scene and costume shop, a photography studio, educational classroom space, and an open studio for artists offered free of charge to anyone in the community.