Sharokin Betgevargiz is an Assyrian artist, author, teacher, and shamanic practitioner whose work spans from historical poster design to visionary sacred art. A graduate of Boston University’s MFA program, she previously taught for a decade at the Savannah College of Art and Design and has presented internationally at conferences such as the Middle East Studies Association and The New School. Her early graphic work explored the legacy of genocide and cultural resilience through type, archival photos, and identity.
Sharokin’s current practice blends ancestral memory with spiritual healing, weaving her training in shamanism and energy medicine into new bodies of work. Her art invokes sacred feminine archetypes—Inanna/Ishtar, Enheduanna, Mart Maryam—and explores Assyrian cosmology, language, and survival. She is the author of the chapter “Rosaries of Resilience: From Genocide to Ritual” in the anthology Unleashing the Courageous Feminine. She is unveiling the Assyrian Women’s Writing Initiative at the 2025 Assyrian Convention: Steel Pillars: Assyrian Women Thriving Through Genocide, where she honors intergenerational healing through story, ritual, and creativity. Her forthcoming work continues to explore spiritual transmission through symbol, myth, visual storytelling, and inclusivity.
“My work moves between ritual, storytelling, and sacred vision. I create from the threads of myth, memory, and survival, weaving the unseen world into visual form—so our ancestral voices are not forgotten.
My art lives at the intersection of storytelling, ritual, and ancestral memory. I carry the voices of my mother, grandmother, and ancestors who endured genocide, migration, and silencing. As an Assyrian woman, a daughter of survivors, and a shamanic practitioner, I use art to reclaim what was nearly erased—our language, our matriarchs, our magic.
Whether in visionary painting, digital collage, or performance ritual, I invoke sacred feminine archetypes such as Inanna, Mart Maryam, and Enheduanna. I let symbols emerge—rosaries, paisleys, feathers, and language fragments—as guides. My work is a portal: a reclamation of beauty and power, an honoring of lineage, and an invitation to heal through spirit and story.”
Website: www.whirlingshaman.com
Facebook: facebook.com/sharokin.betgevargiz
Instagram: @whirling_shaman_healing
