Department: Visual Arts

Ceramics Teacher. Raised in New Mexico, Francesco grew up in Tesuque and Pojoaque surrounded by
musicians, sculptors, and various artists, developing a love for the arts early. While he’s had his
hands in dirt and sand since a young boy, his first true ceramics class was in middle school,
here at Santa Fe Prep. He continued throughout high school, being awarded the Distinguished
Artist Award his graduating year. Since then, he’s received his BS in Studio Art for Ceramics
and Sculpture from Skidmore College, while earning The Barbara Greene Wild Award and the
Molly Haley ’64 Entrepreneurial Artist Prize. He has worked as a studio assistant in Helena, MT,
a clay manufacturer at New Mexico Clay, and recently completed a Post Baccalaureate program
at the University of Hartford. Outside of making objects from clay, Francesco loves the vast
history and anthropology of ceramics, the NBA, and funk.

Department(s)

• Visual Arts

Darkroom photography, yearbook, 3D art. Sarah holds a history degree from Stanford University and an MA in Media Studies from San Diego State University.  She worked as a professional photojournalist for about 20 years with The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times based in Rwanda, Africa, and Mexico City, Mexico.  She has taught photography at the Santa Fe Photo Workshops, National Geographic Expeditions, and the University of California at San Diego Extension.  Sarah’s hobbies are hiking, backpacking and swimming.

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• Visual Arts

Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Art History, 3D art. Matt earned his master’s in Fine Arts from UC Berkeley, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude with Department Distinctions. While at UC Berkeley, he received the prestigious Eisner Prize for Visual Art and was named as a Fellow of the Arts Research Center. He taught Painting, Drawing, and Introduction to Visual Thinking at UC Berkeley and also worked as a professional artist before moving to an earthship in the quiet and rugged desert near Abiquiu, NM. Matt is a practicing artist and is represented by several art galleries, including Form & Concept (Santa Fe) and Visions West Contemporary (Denver, Jackson Hole, Livingston, and Bozeman). He has shown his work across the country, including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Berkeley Art Museum. Matt’s artwork has been collected internationally and has been published in New American Paintings, The Wall Street Journal, and several other publications. Matt enjoys spending time with his wife and new baby, long-distance runs in the mountains, and working in his art studio.

Department(s)

• Visual Arts