Joy Troyer is a batik artist and seminary student at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA.
She initally learned to do batik from a book just before she turned 40. Since then she has taken
studio art workshops at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California and through the Split Rock Arts
Program at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. Seminary courses at United Theological Seminary
of the Twin Cities have provided Joy with an artistic direction. She create large wall art using
subjects of nature, spirituality, and social justice.