Sehar Shahzad's Islamic Calligraphy: Art & Faith

0:00During Arab-American heritage month, Northern California artist Seihar Shahzad keeps the ancient art of Islamic calligraphy thriving with every precise stroke. This student calligrapher treats her tools like gold, starting projects by cutting her own pens to perfection since they're key to the craft. Growing up in Toronto, she picked it up as a young girl while pondering her faith and instantly fell in love. Now married with three kids, it's woven deep into her daily life, and she's dead set on mastering every curve and angle. The process demands strict geometry, with dots guiding proportions on letters read right to left. That bold simplicity calls for total focus and discipline, turning it into her personal meditation and form of worship. Her pieces already shine in a Muslim cemetery prayer room in Napa and Moss domes in San Jose, Hayward and San Francisco, though she cherishes her, paper works most. Catch her talent at the light upon light exhibit at Tarbiyah Institute in Roseville from

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