Muhlenberg Faculty | Photography Professor Assists Allentown AP Art College students

Assistant Professor of Photography Antonio McAfee joined Muhlenberg final fall, and he shortly started immersing himself within the native artwork scene. “I feel like part of my role here is outreach — going to openings, receptions, being part of the community of artists and educators of different levels,” he says.

In September, he went to Allentown’s Art within the Park, the place he met William Allen High School Advanced Placement (AP) Art trainer and artist Bob McFetridge. Not lengthy after, he attended an artist reception at The Baum School of Art downtown that featured the work of Ian Butz ’23. McAfee bought speaking with Butz’s mom, Debora Roberson P’23, who’s concerned with the William Allen Arts Alliance, which helps arts programming at the highschool.

Roberson was engaged on a proposal for a grant from the native nonprofit ArtsQuest to assist Allen’s AP Art college students as they photographed their work for submission. Previous college students had been simply utilizing their telephones. Coincidentally, McAfee had been studying and evaluating AP Art portfolios since 2019 or 2020, and he’d additionally been serving to faculty seniors {photograph} their artwork for years at earlier establishments. He supplied to assist.