White Buffalo Land Trust Welcomes First Artist-in-Residence, Printmaker and Community Leader Angelina LaPointe
Santa Barbara County, CA – November 18, 2025 — White Buffalo Land Trust (WBLT) is honored to welcome Angelina LaPointe, a blockprint printmaker and community arts organizer based in Lompoc, California, as the organization’s first Artist–in-Residence at Jalama Canyon Ranch. The residency launches a new creative initiative inviting artists to explore the connections between land, ecology, and cultural expression.
LaPointe’s work is a study in story, place, and belonging. Through the language of printmaking, she investigates the ways we mark — and are marked by — the landscapes we inhabit. Her hand-carved blocks and linocuts and community art projects reflect the layered histories of California’s Central Coast — its plants, people, and patterns of migration — weaving together ecological awareness and cultural memory.
During her two-month residency, LaPointe will work onsite at the Center for Regenerative Agriculture at Jalama Canyon Ranch, engaging with its oak woodlands, grasslands, vineyards, and waterways to create a new body of work inspired by the land and those who steward it.
“Angelina’s residency represents an exciting step in our efforts to build community through art and ecology,” said Ana Smith, Director of Programs & Engagement at White Buffalo Land Trust. “Her local ties and creative practice embody the heart of this program — using art as a bridge between people and place, and fostering a shared sense of stewardship across our Santa Barbara County community.”
Throughout the residency, LaPointe will visit local junior and high school classrooms to share her creative process, speak about the local arts community, and explore how art can serve as a form of ecological stewardship. The residency will culminate in a December reception in Santa Barbara, featuring an artist talk, hands-on bookmark printing activity, and community gathering with refreshments to celebrate her work and the connections it has inspired.
“As a nature artist working with slow, intricate techniques, I’m often forced to choose between time in the studio and time in nature. This residency offers a rare convergence—an opportunity to create within the very landscape I’m depicting,” says Angelina LaPointe.
“I was raised here in the Santa Rita Hills, and these ecosystems are what first sparked the wonder and curiosity that continue to drive my work. My prints are meant to foster connection—between nature and home, art and community—and it’s an honor to be able to do that here, on my own home soil.”
The residency will culminate in a series of woodblock prints reflecting LaPointe’s dialogue with the land. Select works will be featured in a post-residency solo exhibition at Lompoc Library’s Grossman Gallery in February 2026.
For inquiries or Additional Information, please contact Ana Smith at ana@whitebuffalolandtrust.org.
Launched in 2025, White Buffalo Land Trust’s Artist-in-Residence Program invites artists across disciplines to immerse themselves in the living systems of Jalama Canyon Ranch. Each residency includes public engagement, educational outreach, and the creation of new work shaped by a regenerative landscape. The program is made possible through generous support from the Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Foundation.