Attribution: © by Wojapi Twobulls, used with permission under license.
FEATURED ARTIST
PEDCO's current featured artist is Wojapi Twobulls, an artist and nonprofit leader with Ponca and Filipino heritage.
Artist Bio
Wojapi Twobulls is a Ponca artist and co-founder of the nonprofit organizations Women With Bows and Just Soup. Wojapi cultivates a passion for seed adaptations and working with the land at SkOHden Farm. Wojapi's work reconnects ancestral foods to the cosmos, the soil, and the body bridging Indigenous science, food sovereignty, and art to tell the story of survival and renewal through corn, beans, and squash.
At SkOHden Farm, Wojapi adapts traditional Ponca seeds to new climates so they can evolve while holding ancestral memory. Through Just Soup, Wojapi carries this vision into Indigenous Futurism, blending ancestral foodways with innovation to ensure our people and culture continue forward. According to Wojapi, we cannot move toward the future without correcting the past; this process necessarily involves growing, eating, and preserving traditional foods to secure survival for the next seven generations.
Wojapi's art style, Cosmic Abstract–Ancestral Realism, reflects the belief that the same elements forming galaxies live within our seeds, soil, and bodies. "We come from the stars, and when we eat foods disconnected from that origin, we forget who we are," says Wojapi. "My work calls us to feed our Star Knowledge with Star Food, ancestral, living foods that still carry cosmic memory."
Artist Statement by Wojapi Twobulls
My art and work share one heartbeat: Remembering every seed is a story, a teacher, and a bridge between worlds. Through SkOHden Farm, I nurture traditional Ponca seeds to thrive in new lands, and through Just Soup, I turn farm harvests into living meals and imagery that embody Indigenous Futurism and collective healing.
When I paint corn, beans, and squash, I’m painting the cosmos within us. These foods remind us that we are made of stardust; that ceremony, science, and survival are one. My art is a continuation of creation, proof that we are still here, still evolving, and still remembering.
Attribution: © by Wojapi Twobulls, used with permission under license.
Attribution: © by Wojapi Twobulls, used with permission under license.
Want to be our next featured Native artist? Please contact Tom McCauley at tmccauley@pedco-ne.org.
