Katie Perkins started playing with fire when she was 15 years old. Her art instructor at the Chickasaw Summer Arts Academy (CSAA) introduced the students to woodburning, and Perkins was instantly drawn to it like a proverbial moth to a flame.
“My friends were like, ‘This is really hard,’ and I was like, ‘It’s really hard, but it’s really satisfying. I like this,’” Perkins said.
Years later, that int…