Joy is our birthright.
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Our Mission
The JoyCore Project fosters joy access and recovery through expressive arts, cultural healing, and community-rooted care—centering BIPOC, disabled, LGBTQIA+, youth, and low-income communities through innovative, arts-based programs.
Our Vision
Joy is a Birthright, and Access Matters.
We believe that joy is not a luxury — it’s a vital resource. Our work is rooted in advancing Joy Access as a tool for survival, healing, connection, and liberation.
Artists are Public Health Workers.
Culture bearers, creatives, and storytellers are essential to the health of our communities. We honor artists as frontline workers of collective care, wellness, and transformation.
Centering the Most Vulnerable Heals Us All.
When we center the wisdom, needs, and leadership of those most impacted by oppression, we build systems that are more just, accessible, and life-affirming for everyone.
Embodied, Ancestral, and Internal Ways of Knowing Matter.
We uplift cultural, spiritual, and embodied knowledge alongside evidence-based practices — honoring ways of knowing that have long been dismissed or devalued by dominant systems.
Liberation is Designed.
We design joyful, justice-rooted systems and spaces that are intentional, strategic, and deeply human. We believe that everything — from rest practices to program structure — can be an act of resistance and redesign.
The JoyCore Project Components
Seeding the future of a thriving Arts-based Wellness Ecosystem.
Social Prescription Models
Cultivating ecosystems of care.
Artist’s Guild
Building power. Thriving artists have always been an indicator of a thriving society.
Cross-training Artists as Public Health Workers
Expanding impact. Deepening the intersection between arts and health.
Economic Justice for Artists
Let's abolish the notion of the "tortured, starving artist."
Joy Access for Design
Leveraging the Joy Access Framework for solutions, systems design and strategy.
Community-led Programming
Low-cost, accessible, centering already existing cultural assets & artist-led innovations.
