Featured Media
Aware Now
Joy Blanchard’s latest project, Love Letters, a global movement alongside founder and New York Times bestselling author Diana Wentworth. Hosted at Joy’s BlanchRanch, the project invites people to reconnect through the simple yet courageous act of writing letters of gratitude and appreciation. Rooted in Joy’s belief that creativity, ritual, and community are inseparable, this work reflects her ongoing commitment to creating spaces where meaningful human connection can flourish.
The Turquoise Iris
Joy Blanchard, also known as @thejoyfulartist, is a California-based artist and visionary whose work centers on creativity as a way of living. Experience her garden and learn about cyanotypes, two of many passions Joy explores as mediums for her art.
Women Create
Joy Blanchard is featured in a beautifully intimate long-form article that offers readers a rare glimpse into her creative life, studio practice, and deeply rooted connection to family, faith, and nature. Through evocative photography and reflective storytelling, the piece traces Joy’s journey as an artist, maker, and nurturer—revealing how her work is shaped by lived experience, ritual, and the sacred spaces she inhabits. The feature captures not only her art, but the spirit behind it: a life devoted to beauty, creativity, and meaningful connection.
Aware Now
In Illuminating Paths of Accessible Artistry, Joy Mueller Blanchard is celebrated for her lifelong devotion to creativity as a way of living, teaching, and connecting. The article highlights Joy’s intuitive, hands-on approach to art—rooted in wonder, spirituality, and reverence for the natural world—and traces how her practice extends beyond traditional mediums into ritual, community, and sacred space. Through her work as an artist, educator, and self-described “Joyologist,” the feature reveals Joy’s belief that art is not only an expression, but a joyful, accessible path to deeper connection with self, spirit, and the world around us.