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

  • North Valley CTE students Julissa Garcia (left), Daphneiris Almonte, and Aaron Linner press prairie plants into clay plates as part of the Thinking Like a Prairie workshops. Plates will be fired and glazed and used at a potluck as part of the program next Spring. Photo Josh Anderson.
    North Valley CTE students Julissa Garcia (left), Daphneiris Almonte, and Aaron Linner press prairie plants into clay plates as part of the Thinking Like a Prairie workshops. Plates will be fired and glazed and used at a potluck as part of the program next Spring. Photo Josh Anderson.

    Programs support lifelong awareness of ND’s most important ecosystem

    In 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 transformed into art: paint pi…