Have you heard? NJPAC is building a new arts education and community center, right on our campus on the corner of Mulberry and Center Streets. It’ll be called The Cooperman Family Arts Education and Community Center. Designed by architecture firm Weiss/Manfredi, this three-story, approximately 58,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility will be the new home for NJPAC’s arts education programs, free performing arts programs for our community, as well as rehearsal space for artists to create new work.

The Cooperman Family Arts Education and Community Center is a hub of creativity and innovation where the performing arts are a tool for education, understanding, expression, and healing. We invite our entire community to gather here to learn, collaborate and celebrate diverse voices.

• Arts training for kids and teens, in jazz, hip hop, poetry and theater
• Professional development for educators
• Technical theater training for students
• A 169-seat studio lab for education and community programs
• Rehearsal studios for both professional and community arts groups
• Space grants for community non-profits
• A Children’s Arts Reading Room for ages 0 to 4th grade
• Arts & well-being programs
• And more to come!

The capital construction of the Cooperman Family Arts Education and Community Center has been made possible with support from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, the State of New Jersey, Toby & Leon Cooperman, Women@NJPAC, TD Bank, RWJBarnabas Health, The Berson Family, Lizzie & Jonathan Tisch, P. Roy & Diana Vagelos, New Jersey Community Capital, the Estate of Amy Liss, the Izzo Family, and an anonymous donor