Andy Calkiewicz has accomplished a great deal in his young life. The recent witness to the birth of a new baby boy, Andy Calkiewicz has become a full-time father and lifelong husband. As a professor of art at New York University, Andy has provided inspiration to many young, knowledge-hungry minds. As an academic, Andy is the proud recipient of two college degrees, and is quickly nearing the reception of his third.

Andy Calkiewicz is working on his professional dissertation at Columbia University. This promises to be the last and most significant step towards his PhD. Andy hopes to use his soon-to-be degree to continue sharing his passion for art and the Avant Garde movement with others.

As a NYU Art Professor, Andy Calkiewicz believes that an artist should always attempt to push the boundaries of human emotion and understanding. As an energetic and inspired teacher and student of the 20th century movements of Avant Garde Art, Andy Calkiewicz knows how an artist who refuses to operate inside the box can produce art work that pumps life and inspiration to the professional art scene, and can provide people with an exciting opportunity to reevaluate how they experience and visualize the known world.

Andy Calkiewicz fervently desires that every student have the opportunity to experience something special in his classroom. It is his hope to display to students the untapped potential of art, and to show them that art is more than what can be taught in a lesson or that exists in a book. Art, says Andy Calkiewicz, is a desire to understand, to learn, and to tap into the unknown. Andy realizes that art has a rich and varied history that should be both taught and understood. He also understands that art should also reflect what’s in a person’s soul, and should convey how that person feels and thinks about the world. Andy Calkiewicz seeks to deliver inspiring and thought-provoking lectures that do more than just present statistics and facts and statistics about movements and artists throughout world history. He wants to invoke a sense of passion for the possibilities of art.