Meet the Faculty

Matt Mullins

Matt Mullins is the Chair of the Visual Arts Department at Santa Fe Prep and teaches painting, drawing, 3-D art, and photography. Matt earned his Masters in Fine Arts from UC Berkeley.  While at UC Berkeley, he received the prestigious Eisner Prize for Visual Art and was named as a Fellow with the Arts Research Center.…

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Adam Lowenstein

Adam Lowenstein teaches English at Santa Fe Prep, having taught for the past 18 years both in independent schools and higher education. He received his PhD in English from UCLA in 2011, writing about 19th-century American author Henry James’s efforts to elevate the craft of fiction to an art form. In 2016, on the eve…

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Ben Sleeman

Ben Sleeman was introduced to mountain biking 20 years ago, when he was whisked away from his home in Liverpool, England to the mountains of Colorado.  Ever since, he’s found joy in trudging around in the high country in heat, rain, sleet or snow. Ben teaches in the mathematics department at Santa Fe Prep and is the…

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Stu Pendleton

Stu Pendleton is one of the finest mountain bikers in New Mexico and also a bikepacker. Stu coaches the Santa Fe Rattlers, who welcome any 6th – 12th grader in Santa Fe to compete in the New Mexico Interscholastic Cycling League. Stu is also an excellent bike mechanic who moonlights for fun at his favorite bike…

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