Big Sandy Community and Technical College (BSCTC) signed a memorandum of agreement on Wednesday, May 4 to manage the Mountain Arts Center (MAC). The agreement was signed by Dr. Devin Stephenson, president of BSCTC, and Prestonsburg Mayor Les Stapleton. Opened in 1996, the MAC is home to a state-of-the-art 1,044-seat theatre, spacious meeting rooms, an art gallery, practice/instruction rooms and a commercial recording studio.  Over the past year, BSCTC has operated the MAC’s recording studio. Dr. Stephenson said the agreement will greater leverage the resources of both the college and the MAC to bring expanded fine arts programming, credit and non-credit courses and outreach programs to the region.