Hackensack Performing Arts Center

Happening NOW! The doors just opened but this is definitely going to be A NIGHT! Stop by HACPAC, 102 State St, Hackensack NJ. You don’t want to miss this reception and chance to meet the artist! Free and open to the public. His work is AMAZING! 🤩

Reward your curiosity and step into a world where nothing is as it first appears.

Join us for the opening reception of Jim Nonas’ latest collection of original collage works—an immersive showcase built from fragments of everyday life, transformed into richly layered landscapes, cityscapes, and imagined scenes.

From a distance, each piece feels familiar. Up close, a different story unfolds. Hundreds of carefully placed clippings—textures, colors, and hidden details—come together to create compositions that reward curiosity and invite a second look.

This special exhibition features original works, offering a rare opportunity to experience Nonas’ process and precision beyond print.

Meet the artist, explore the collection, and discover how discarded pieces of the past can be reassembled into something entirely new.

🗓 Opening Reception: Thursday June 11th 6-9 PM
📍 Location: Hackensack Preforming Arts Center 102 State Street Hackensack NJ

Jim Nonas is a self-taught artist who uses magazines as his color palette, meticulously hand-cutting small pieces to create striking large-scale images. Each piece is crafted on stretched canvas and sealed with a UV-resistant varnish for lasting vibrancy.
Jim’s unique collage work has gained international recognition. He is currently contracted with Wentworth Puzzle Company in the UK and Giallobus in Italy to create exclusive wall art collections by the end of the year.
Based in New Jersey, Jim regularly exhibits his work in local venues and leads creative workshops through community art clubs. His talent has been recognized with multiple awards, including honors from Bergen County Art in the Park and Focus New Jersey. He was also featured in the April 2019 issue of Northwest Bergen Lifestyles Magazine.
For inquiries about original artwork, commissions, or prints, visit:
Instagram:
Facebook: jimnonasart

Coming in June! Reward your curiosity and step into a world where nothing is as it first appears.

Join us for the opening reception of Jim Nonas’ latest collection of original collage works—an immersive showcase built from fragments of everyday life, transformed into richly layered landscapes, cityscapes, and imagined scenes.

From a distance, each piece feels familiar. Up close, a different story unfolds. Hundreds of carefully placed clippings—textures, colors, and hidden details—come together to create compositions that reward curiosity and invite a second look.

This special exhibition features original works, offering a rare opportunity to experience Nonas’ process and precision beyond print.

Meet the artist, explore the collection, and discover how discarded pieces of the past can be reassembled into something entirely new.

🗓 Opening Reception: Thursday June 11th 6-9 PM
📍 Location: Hackensack Preforming Arts Center 102 State Street Hackensack NJ

Jim Nonas is a self-taught artist who uses magazines as his color palette, meticulously hand-cutting small pieces to create striking large-scale images. Each piece is crafted on stretched canvas and sealed with a UV-resistant varnish for lasting vibrancy.
Jim’s unique collage work has gained international recognition. He is currently contracted with Wentworth Puzzle Company in the UK and Giallobus in Italy to create exclusive wall art collections by the end of the year.
Based in New Jersey, Jim regularly exhibits his work in local venues and leads creative workshops through community art clubs. His talent has been recognized with multiple awards, including honors from Bergen County Art in the Park and Focus New Jersey. He was also featured in the April 2019 issue of Northwest Bergen Lifestyles Magazine.
For inquiries about original artwork, commissions, or prints, visit:
Instagram:
Facebook: jimnonasart

Join us for the Sounds of Summer Concert Series! Every Friday night at 7pm, we’ll be bringing you an incredible lineup of musical events that you won’t want to miss!

Spend your Wednesday evenings under the stars at Atlantic Street Park with live Shakespeare performances starting at 7:30 PM. Bring a blanket, gather your friends, and enjoy an unforgettable night of theater with The Taming of the Shrew brought vividly to life by professional performers.

The Taming of the Shrew is a sharp, spirited comedy packed with wit, chemistry, and playful chaos. Set in Padua, this beloved Shakespeare classic follows the fiery Katherine and the clever Petruchio in a lively battle of wills full of humor, surprises, and irresistible energy.

Whether you’re a devoted Shakespeare lover or simply looking for a fun summer night out, this is a can’t-miss event in the heart of downtown Hackensack.

Some fun pix from last week’s reception for artist Britt Sikiric and her gorgeous solo exhibition, Color, Buzz, Fly! It was a great night, and if you missed it, this show will remain on view thru May 31.

Unwind under the sky with our Sunset Yoga at Atlantic Street Park.

Join us every Monday in July and August on July 6, 13, 20, 27 and August 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, with two sessions each night at 6PM and 7:30PM.

Bring a mat, water, and a friend, and make Monday your new favorite night of the week.

Howdy Stranger brings their interactive improv comedy show to HACPAC, Saturday night at 8PM. If you’re looking for the perfect date night, a hilarious outing with friends, or wholesome family fun, this is the “must-see” event in Hackensack where shouting is encouraged.

Howdy Stranger’s Improv Comedy Show The comedy show where shouting is encouraged. Experience the comedy phenomenon that has audiences crying with laughter. Howdy Stranger brings you a high-energy, 90-minute, game-show-style performance…

TOMORROW (Thursday)!! If you adore colorful, playful, almost Matisse-like art, we have more than 21 gorgeous paintings by artist, Britt Sikiric, for you to fall in love with! Color, Buzz, Fly is a beautifully expressive and whimsical solo art exhibition on view for the month of May. Britt is a New Jersey–based painter and muralist who earned a BFA in Fine Arts, with a concentration in painting, from the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Since graduating from the School of Visual Arts, Britt has taken on murals, fine art commissions, visual merchandising, and set design. Her work spans both public spaces and studio pieces, guided by an interest in color, process, and accessibility.

She currently teaches art at a special needs school, where the curriculum focuses on choice, experimentation and individual expression. Alongside teaching, Britt continues to paint murals and accept commissions, maintaining a practice that connects the classroom to the community.

“I’m an expressive painter working from intuition and feeling.
My process begins with a single spark - a color, movement, or moment of energy - and unfolds subconsciously from there. I don’t plan; I respond. Each piece is a direct translation of impulse onto canvas.

My work resists repetition and traditional series, but it’s unified by its energy. Restless and intuitive, my paintings are visual records of emotion in motion, each one an extension of my personality and a pursuit of congruous energy across the whole body of work.”
~ Britt Sikiric