Staff Profile | Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts

About
Education
Awards & Honors
Research

Biography

Rose Marshack is a teacher, performer, and computer programmer living in Bloomington, IL. She is also a founding member of the punk rock group Poster Children, and a martial artist.

Current Courses

CTK 201.001 Basic Skills In The Digital Arts

CTK 232.001 Computer Programming for Creatives

CTK 402.001 Computer Programming for Creatives

MUS 175.001 Introduction To The Music Industry

MUS 298.001 Professional Practice :Music Business

CTK 490.005 Directed Projects In Creative Technology

Teaching Interests & Areas

Computer Programming for Creatives, Music Business, Graphic Design, Theory of Play.

Research Interests & Areas

Capoeira Angola, Computer Programming

MFA New Media

University of Illinois

Champaign, IL

BS Computer Science / Engineering

University of Illinois

Champaign, IL

BS Math and Computer Science / Liberal Arts and Sciences

University of Illinois

Champaign

Impact Award

University College

2026

2022 Outstanding Teaching Award, Tenure Track

Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts

2022

College of Fine Arts Teaching Excellence Award

Illinois State University

2016

University Teaching Initiative Award

Illinois State University

2012

Grants & Contracts

Building Community to Support Student Success in The School of Creative Technologies. Illinois State University. Illinois State University. (2024)

PIE Grant Proposal, AMP/CVA 17 Audio Engineering Equipment. Provost. Illinois State University. (2022)

Provost Innovation and Enhancement Grant: AMP/CVA 17 Audio Engineering Equipment. Provost's Office. Illinois State University. (2022)

Provost Innovation and Enhancement Grant: Design Thinking @ ISU Collaboration Space. Provost's Office. Illinois State University. (2022)

Performances and Exhibits

Carnaval!
Rose G Marshack
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. March 4 2025 - March 4 2025

Portuguese and Capoeira Angola
Rose G Marshack
Illinois Wesleyan University - the Language Resource Center. October 11 2023 - October 11 2023

Make Music Normal
Rose G Marshack
September 30 2022 - September 30 2022

Shinrin Onyoko 森林音浴
Rose G Marshack
Japan House, University of Illinois. July 17 2022 - July 17 2022

Afro-Brazilian Percussion Workshop Series at Krannert Center for Performing Arts
Rose G Marshack
Krannert Center for Performing Arts and Robert E. Brown Center for World Music. January 1 2021 - April 30 2022

Capoeira Dance and Samba Drumming Presentation
Rose G Marshack
Japan House, UIUC. - May 15 2022

Children's Workshop
Rose G Marshack
Make Music Normal. - June 25 2022

Samba Drumming Performance
Rose G Marshack
Social Justice Awards at UIUC, Alice Campbell Alumni Center. - April 18 2022

Samba drumming performance
Rose G Marshack
ILACHE - Illinois LAtino Council on Higher Education. - April 20 2022

Supporting Bob Mould Band
Rose G Marshack, Rick Norman Valentin
Palace Theatre. - April 19 2025

Book, Authored

Marshack, R. "Play Like A Man - My Life in Poster Children. University of Illinois Press (2023): 254 pages.

Conference Proceeding

Pereira Gloor, R., Corness, G., Marshack, R., & Paolucci, A. Can you Feel What I Feel: Leveraging Aesthetics in Visual and Spatial Audio VR Experience. Electronic Visualization and the Arts (2023)

Presentations

Women in Music. Women in Music. Tau Beta Sigma, National Honorary Band Sorority dedicated to serving college and university band programs.. (2025)

"Featured Speaker" Rose Marshack. IAEA Conference 2024. Illinois Art Educators Association. (2024)

https://thisispygmalion.com/priceofperformance/

Creative Technologies - The Keynote. High School Research Symposium. (2023)

Play Like a Man. Pygmalion Lit Fest. (2023)

Mestre Jogo de Dentro workshop. Mestre Jogo de Dentro Workshop. Capoeira Angola Center of Mestre João Grande. (2020)