‘PRAIRIE ART’ CON’T PAGE 2 Programs like “Thinking Like a Prairie” are fueled by NDNRT’s Small Grant Program, launched in 2014 to emphasize natural resources education opportunities across the state.
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.
Students Julissa Garcia, and Daphneiris Almonte from the North Valley CTE program paint on prairie paper with pigments made from local soils as part of the Thinking Like a Prairie workshops. Photo Josh Anderson.
For Anderson, who helped organize the workshops and hosts a podcast called Common Ground: A Prairie Podcast that was seeded by a grant from the NDNRT, said the transformation of the students was great to see.
“Almost all of them said they had no relationship to art or art making in the beginning, and to see them go in just a few weeks (to creating art), none of them would have identified as an arti…
![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.](/sites/valleynewsandviews.com/files/1e9aeb2d79_Ar00103004.jpg)
