John Bateman to step down as SAAC executive director
Starkville Area Arts Council Executive Director John Bateman poses with artwork in the council’s current exhibit “Time on Our Hands,” in the lobby of the Greater Starkville Development Partnership. Nicole Bowman-Layton/Dispatch Staff
Starkville Area Arts Council’s office sits in the back corner of the Greater Starkville Development Partnership complex at the corner of East Main Street and South LaFayette streets.
Barely big enough for two desks and a small table, the cramped office features art in various mediums on three of its four walls. The fourth, behind two dark brown wooden desks, features various posters of past art council events and awards won by said programs.