The Next 40 Years of Justice
2025 Artist Calendar
Since 2021, Headwaters has produced two artist calendars, inviting local artists who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color to share their vision and voice with our community about themes including transformation and radical rest.
This third calendar comes at a milestone in Headwaters' history - the 40th anniversary of our founding. This milestone offers us and our community to ground in our shared community, history, and vision for a just Minnesota. With this in mind, we asked this year's contributing artists a series of questions to inspire their artwork:
What is your vision for your community in the next 40 years? What victories do hold onto for the next decades? What would winning collective liberation in the next 40 years look like, and what would it take? What lessons must from movement, ancestors, and beyond must we bring forward to sustain our struggles for justice in Minnesota and beyond?
This year's artists and the works presented in this year's calendar offer a compelling, visionary, and deeply rooted vision of a pathway for the next decades in movement.
Join us in drawing strength and inspiration from their pieces and leaning into places of curiosity and wonder as we dream and build together towards a more just and equitable Minnesota. We hope you'll use these powerful visions to fuel your commitment to justice over the next 40 years.
This page will be updated throughout 2025. We hope you'll get to know and support the artists featured in the calendar, listed below. Follow us on social media as we amplify each artist monthly.
About the Curator: Sati Varghese Mac
Curatorial Statment
"To think of what it means to win in our fight for justice, to me points to a feeling, a process, a relationship to each other. I believe that freedom and justice are truly embodied in the space to negotiate those things, and for that negotiation to be filled with love, understanding, grace, and steadfastness. We are met daily by the injustices we must swallow, and yet the truth within us seeks to express, to act. In a way, it is a truth we cannot know, for it is truth as directionality. As artists, we put that directionality into our visions, even when there is nothing that already exists to tell us how to assemble these dreams."
Click here to read the full curatorial statement
Biography
Sati dreams of a world that can support the multiplicities of her people. Her practices commemorate the will to transform as a part of nature’s cycles of change through inquiry into her ancestral imaginaries. Her existence leads her to a fascination with the holes in destinies and how time and scale can interrupt fictions of fixity. Sati left the Rhode Island School of Design with a degree in Sculpture, and is a 2024-25 fellow with the Emerging Curators Institute. She has worked with organizations such as Intermedia Arts and the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and as an artist and filmmaker, her work has been shown at the RISD Museum (Providence, RI), MoMa PS1 (Queens, NY), 100% Silk Gallery (Toronto, ON), Studio 11 (San Francisco, CA) and Public Functionary (Minneapolis, MN), where she now works to curate.
Graphic design by Blackbird Revolt