Christopher Nowicki was born in Toledo, Ohio U.S.A. and Studied from 1968-1973 at the Toledo Museum of Art School of Design and the University of Toledo receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. From 1974-1977 he studied at the University of Washington, Seattle and was teaching assistant to Glen Alps until receiving a Master of Fine Arts Degree in 1977. Chris is now teaching as Doctor of Fine Arts in Wroclaw Poland.