Art students from SAMS and the High School Portfolio Development Class created a work of "ephemeral" art in the style of British contemporary artist Andy Goldsworthy.  In his work, Goldsworthy uses natural materials such as leaves, stone, ice, and sand.  Often these works of art last only a short time.  For example, ice melts, leaves blow away, sand is covered by the tide.  The point of this type of work is to capture the changes as they occur.  Goldsworthy does this by photographing the art as it evolves and eventually disappears.

     Students in Mrs. Perelka's art classes created a long leaf chain.  The leaves were ingeniously attached to each other using no other materials.  When the very long leaf chain was completed, high school students from Mrs. Smith's Portfolio Development class photographed the chain as in meandered along the Kennebec River.  As you can see, results were very beautiful and fleeting.

     The Skowhegan Area Middle School students involved in this project were: B.J. Clark, Rene Chaput, Haley Strout, Kelsey Brown, Sydney Paquet, Cotey Wheeler, Jake Weese and Henry Bonneau

      The High School students that photographed this project were: Ellen Alsop, Sloane Fossett