![]() ![]() They moved to Louisiana, where he was later stationed, and that is where I was born. He was head over heels in love, and they got married in Tampa, Florida where he was stationed in the US. My dad was stationed in Korea in the Air Force and he met my mom there. Why did your family originally move from Korea to South Carolina? I think most people would say I was a hippy, maybe still now. I feel like I was really able to immerse myself and hang with different people from different backgrounds. It was nice and slow in the sense that people are laid back and friendly there. Living with a Korean grandma, if we did come inside, she was sponging off our feet. We weren’t even allowed to play inside that much anyway. We had a forest behind our house, so I played outside and rode my bike everywhere. It’s tacky, it’s kitschy, but it wasn’t so explosively tacky when I was kid. They only see it from an outside perspective. People like to talk shit about it, but it’s only because they don’t know it and didn’t grow up there. At that point, it wasn’t really known as the Dyrtle Myrtle. There were definitely times when we felt like we were different, but we grew up with a tight-knit, predominately female Korean family all around us. My sister and I really had a great upbringing. Growing up in the South was actually really lovely, despite what you might think an experience as an Asian person in the South might be. Tell me about what it was like to grow up in the South? On the day I go to her studio she describes the feeling of jumping back on the wheel as the quintessential ‘ aha’ moment that only some are so lucky to discover. At first scared to put herself out there, Angela became obsessed. Sitting on her couch one random day, Angela got the sudden urge to join a pottery studio and make ceramics again. However it wasn’t until she moved from Charleston to Los Angeles that she was able to carve out the physical space and headspace to become reacquainted with a medium that she fell in love with in college but lost sight of over the years: clay. She earned a Master’s Degree in Public Administration with an Arts Management focus that allowed for a number of creative admin career opportunities along the way. She made room for self-reflection, self-love, and the clarity to clearly see where her passions lie.Īngela spent nearly fifteen years focused on her painting practice. Her early thirties fostered a new inward-looking perspective, with Angela consciously removing the things that were clouding her headspace and preventing her from hearing the voice within. While her twenties were filled with countless days sitting on the floor of her room painting canvases, weekends hanging out in the stands of outdoor stadiums and open fields watching Phish and Widespread Panic, and years of tirelessly working in her Charleston, South Carolina community to gain a foothold in the art world, it wasn’t until Angela turned thirty that she took a hard look at her life and decided to make a change. However she’s actively worked to manifest the life she has always envisioned for herself. I’m not by any means a negative person, but when you’re introduced to ceramicist Angela Chvarak - joyous smile on her face, welcoming demeanor, and overall gracious sentiment - you can’t help but want to latch onto the positivity that she exudes.Īngela will be the first one to tell you that she is by no means perfect. Every so often I meet someone, who after talking and spending some time with them, I think to myself, damn I wish I was that positive and zen. ![]()
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