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

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

GRAFTON, N.D. — 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 pigment from soils, plants pressed into clay for dinner plates, grasses embedded in paper made from rec…