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Forum Marquee Event: ENOUGH! Plays to End Gun Violence

Cheek Theatre - Clark Arts Center 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, United States

ENOUGH! invites YOU to attend staged readings of this year’s plays in your community.  On October 6, 2025, six of the plays submitted through our nationwide call in Spring 2025 will be presented in an evening of readings staged simultaneously by theaters, schools, and community groups across the country. Nearly 3,000 artists in more than 150 communities have participated across three previous Nationwide Readings....

Forum Marquee Event: Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar: “Democracy and the Arts”

Fisher Memorial Chapel, Rockford University 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, United States

What is the role of the arts in activating and sustaining democratic life? How have artists sustained the rights of free expression? Why are some forms of artistic expression censored? How have the arts contributed to social movements? Should the arts have a politically useful role? Or stay strategically "un-useful"? In different eras and regions...

Fotos y Recuerdos

Rockford University Art Gallery - Clark Arts Center 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, United States

Salvador Dominguez On Display: September 2nd – October 17th Reception: Friday, October 10th, 6:00-8:00PM Artist Talk: Friday, October 10th, 7:00PM Salvador Dominguez was born in 1985 in Zacatecas, Mexico, and grew up in Pomona, California. He now lives and works in Chicago, Illinois, where he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. Like many first-generation...

Forum Marquee Event: “Voices: Men and Women of Africa and America”

Maddox Theatre - Clark Arts Center 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, United States

African and American playwrights in the 20th and 21st century have shared stories of the black experience on two continents and found the binding connection to all of humanity seeking strength, dignity, and purpose. Under the direction of Dorothy Paige-Turner, the Rockford Reader’s Theatre will present selections from the works of August Wilson, Athol Fugard,...

Free
DCFS Info session

DCFS Info Session

Faculty Dining Room - Burpee Student Center 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, United States

DCFS will be hosting an info session for Internships and employment opportunities they have available

Free

Beyond the Business Summit: From Insight to Action

Rockford University 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, United States

You gave feedback, we listended. Beyond the Business Summit brings you the follow up to our annual summer Business Summit to keep the action going! This "mini" summit details the Impact of Not-For-Profits.

Free
Describe the Night

Describe the Night

Maddox Theatre - Clark Arts Center 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, United States

November 20-23, 2025 (Thursday-Saturday, 7:30 pm; Sunday 2 pm) Maddox Theatre, Clark Arts Center Director, Prof. Deborah Mogford In 2010 a Polish Air Force Flight plane crashed near the Russian City of Smolensky killing the president of Poland, along with 18 members of the Polish Parliament. There is evidence suggesting this air disaster may have...

Post-Digital Landscapes

Rockford University Art Gallery - Clark Arts Center 5050 E. State St. , Rockford, IL, United States

Curtis Anthony Bozif, Ruth Lantz, & Jonathan Worcester On Display: October 27th – December 12th Reception: Friday, November 21st, 6:00-8:00PM Artist Talk: Friday, November 21st, 7:00PM Curtis Anthony Bozif is a Chicago-based visual artist and art writer. He was born in 1982 in St. Louis, Missouri. He earned his BFA in Painting and Art History...