Rabat – Sara Alawadi, a young Muslim artist who wants to show that art can be for everyone, has made a considerable impact on social media by educating the public about the world of art.
At a time when social media is expanding its influence everywhere in the world, an appetite has grown for short-form and easily digestible content that can teach people about new topics.
Sara Alawadi, better known as “Saratalksart” on TikTok, has taken advantage of this evolution.
She is an artist based in Kuwait who posts short videos lasting one minute or less discussing and educating others about modern and contemporary art, history and culture.
Speaking to Morocco World News (MWN), Alawadi delved into her art journey and how she discovered her passion.
“I remember wanting to do art pretty early on, I lived a period of my childhood in the hospital and nurses would really encourage me to draw, which kind of sparked my enthusiasm for art,” she told MWN.
”As I grew older a bit, that enthusiasm faded away and was replaced by realistic goals,” Alawadi added. “Until quarantine and with COVID, it really gave me a space to pause and think about what I really wanted to do.”
When asked about her reasoning for changing majors from science to art, Sara stated that she was focused on her STEM career path and didn’t consider doing art seriously until reading Barbara Sher’s “I can do anything if only I knew what it was.” To Alawadi, the book was very “inspiring and life-changing.”
She says it played a vital role in helping her organise her thoughts and was the primary reason for her to take a major step in her life and pursue what she loves the most, that being art.
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She also spoke about the struggle of using her real name, saying “when I first started posting on social media I simply refused to use my real name, because I was genuinely so afraid that people that I knew in real life are going to find me and make fun of me.”
“If you’re in that same situation I promise you no one actually cares,” she continued, emphasizing that it took her a few months to actually start using her real name and tell all her friends that she had a social media account.
“My only aim for the future is to hopefully make art just a bit more accessible for everyone”, she concluded.
As the field of social media continues to grow in the Arab World, several aspiring influencers could be looking to follow in Alawadi’s footsteps by creating specialized content aimed at delivering easy to digest information to the general public.
