Students ‘think like a prairie’ with hands-on art experience

Artist Austen Camille [left] along with North Valley CTE students Aaron Linner, Kale Tanke, and James Elliott collecting prairie soils they later rendered into paint pigments during the Thinking Like a Prairie workshops. Photo provided by Josh Anderson.

Artist Austen Camille [left] along with North Valley CTE students Aaron Linner, Kale Tanke, and James Elliott collecting prairie soils they later rendered into paint pigments during the Thinking Like a Prairie workshops. Photo provided by Josh Anderson.

Programs support lifelong awareness of ND’s most important ecosystemIn early September, high schoolers from North Valley Career and Technology Center waded through hip-high prairie with plastic containers and bags, collecting seed heads, grasses and spoonfuls of soil.In the days after, what they gathered from the prairie of South Branch Bison Ranch near Grafton were tra...

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