New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC)

NJPAC’s education initiative, kicked off before the Newark campus was built, is now one of New Jersey’s largest providers of arts education programs for children, annually reaching almost 100,000 students (from Pre-K to Grade 12), teachers and families. Thousands of New Jersey kids who experience world-class performances on Arts Center stages go on to classes where they can study dance, jazz, acting, musical theater, hip hop arts and culture, and more — either in our Center for Arts Education, or in classes taught by NJPAC teaching artists at schools around the state. NJPAC’s professional development opportunities for teachers — classes and workshops through which classroom teachers strengthen their skills in multiple areas like choreographing a school musical, creating an original play or playing the recorder — have added exponentially to the arts education offerings at Greater Newark schools and surrounding areas.