Allyson Arendsee Darakjian ’10 attended Westmont to explore questions of meaning and to work with paint and paper as a studio art major also studying religion. She grew up hearing about the college from her mother, Lyndsey Perino Arendsee ’84, and sensed that art and experience of the divine belonged in the same conversation. After graduating, she studied at the now-defunct New York Center for Art and Media Studies and interned with International Arts Movement, which painter Makoto Fujimura started. His work and writing explore faith, beauty and cultural renewal, and the experience confirmed that art could be a serious, lifelong vocation. Allyson Arendsee Darakjian ’10 attended Westmont to explore questions of meaning and to work with paint and paper as a studio art...