Susan Klinger

It was early in my art teaching career. I was enjoying a local art/craft show on the weekend. I wandered into an artist’s booth, a ceramic artist if I remember correctly. We struck up a conversation and I learned she had also been an art teacher who had retired early. I forget how the conversation developed, but at one point she asked me if I had ever heard the phrase about art teachers. I suppose I looked confused. She went on to tell me that art teachers are commonly s

Hopefully that title has you just a bit curious! As some of you might know, I spent 34 years teaching art to very talented high school art students. If any of them are reading this, they would be able to easily explain to you the YUK stage, most likely while rolling their eyes! It is something I discovered in creating my own art, but it wasn’t until my students encountered it, that I coined the phrase, the “YUK stage” in searching for a way to explain the phenomenon and to