Toni is a part-time artist, full-time software developer, mom, partner, and spoonie. After starting a remote job, Toni started painting again as a way to decompress and unwind after long days of coding, remote learning, and pandemic-related anxiety. Finding softness and strength in fat bodies has been a consistent theme in her art. Finding much of the fat-femme-centered art in her feed to be fetishizing, Toni has sought to paint fatness as joyful, playful, and strong. Her Fat Goddess series epitomizes this desire to see fat bodies as the divine magic they are. Find Toni on IG @fat_mom_painting or on her website https://fatmompainting.wixsite.com/home

Hayden Stern is a multisensory artist and teacher who makes work about fat liberation, healing from state-sponsored violence, and transgender identity. They are passionate about increasing inclusion in figurative art, birdwatching, and making stuff with cloth and thread. They live in unceded Duwamish Territories (Seattle, WA) with their polydactyl cat, Miss Toes.

Elisabeth Walden (b. 1987) is an artist, printmaker and ceramicist. Her work was born from her struggle as a queer fat woman to construct an embodied, loving representation of fatness. Though she began this work by representing her own body in two dimensions, she gradually shifted to sculpture, creating figurative ceramic planters and vases depicting fat bodies. The value these planters have as functional and decorative objects, as well as their tenderness and humor, are in tension with our cultural ideas about fat and otherwise marginalized bodies. Though she hopes this work encourages viewers to reconsider their ideas about beauty, and to build their empathy for fat people, she is satisfied when the response is simply to stop and smell the plants.

Biasenzaniro is a 32 years old, fat female photographer from Canada, obsessed with fashion mostly because she grew up not being able to express herself through style. Healing from a burnout and building a career as an Inclusive Fashion Photographer in Montreal, her expertise and struggles walk hand in hand in her Artwork because through this process, she continue to heal, grow and expand her horizon.

Biasenzaniro is a 32 years old, fat female photographer from Canada, obsessed with fashion mostly because she grew up not being able to express herself through style. Healing from a burnout and building a career as an Inclusive Fashion Photographer in Montreal, her expertise and struggles walk hand in hand in her Artwork because through this process, she continue to heal, grow and expand her horizon.