217 Today: What’s Your Story? Urbana Free Library seeks visual artists for new program starting this fall

Artists will lead workshops and share their own art at TUFL this fall through next spring.

Monday, August 12, 2024

Today’s headlines:

  • School starts today in Champaign, and one expert recommends teachers call parents early in the semester before students get into trouble.
  • A new report suggests that substances used by farmers to kill unwanted vegetation are threatening native plants.
  • A study from the University of Illinois Chicago reveals new information about how the continents could have formed.

In today’s deep dive, we’ll learn about the Artist in Residence Program at the Urbana Free Library.

217 Today is produced by Stephanie Mosqueda. Reporting today contributed by Kennedy Vincent, Elissa Eaton and Kimberly Schofield.

 

Stephanie Mosqueda

Stephanie Mosqueda is a senior majoring in journalism at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with minors in Spanish and public relations. She is the 217 Today producer and a reporter for the Illinois Student Newsroom.