n act of vandalism at her high school unexpectedly opened up a fascinating new world for Caroline Hatchell. “Someone broke into my high school and
smashed
every
trophy
case in the school. There was glass
everywhere,”
Hatchell
explains. “A friend of mine, whose family owned a jewelry store, took the broken glass and made jewelry out of it,” selling the jewelry to raise money to help replace the school’s trophy cases. “That was my first experience seeing someone take something and make a wearable piece of art with it,” Hatchell says. “I thought it was super cool.” Hatchell had already long been intrigued with small things. An avid lover of nature, she would collect the tiniest wildflowers and spend hours creating diminutive flower arrangements. Collecting and assembling all sorts of small things in an artistic way held great interest for her. “My dad was a house-builder. He had this nail apron that he would dump into a bucket every day,” Hatchell says. “One day, I emptied the entire bucket and sorted all the nails by size and
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Extravagan
10th Anniversary Piano
12 Arthur Fraser International Concerto Competition winners • Marina Lomazov • Joseph Rackers • Charles Fugo • Phillip Bush • Morihiko Nakahara and the South Carolina Philharmonic • Five Steinway grand pianos on the Koger Center stage
Koger Center for the Arts
Sunday, June 10, 2012 4 p.m.