Since the late 1970's, Wellman's prints, drawings and paintings have been regularly exhibited and have received critical review in art publications nationally and internationally. In 1999 she was featured in a traveling exhibition "Chance and Necessity: Abstract Painting in Washington Area" Chance and Necessity traveled around the region and in Ohio. A catalogue accompanied the show. In 2003 Joyce was invited to Kenya to participate in the First East African Women Artists Residency and Exhibition and to teach a master printmaking class to a group of young artists at the Kuona Trust Studios in Nairobi all sponsored by the US Embassy, Kenya and the Kuona Trust of Nairobi.